"I photograph rooms as they are."
"What interests me about spaces is the mixture of different epochs, how different periods represent themselves," stated Hӧfer in 1998, indicating a key theme of her work: the superimiposition of various time levels that becomes evident in the stylistic discontinuities between architecture and interior decoration. Since 1979, Hӧfer has been photgraphing public and semi-public interiors - waiting rooms, hotel lobbies, spa facilities, banks, churches, theatres, univeristy auditoriums, libraries, archives, museums and, since 1990, zoos. With a sure sense of the coexistence of the anachronistic, her images capture bizarre and occasionally paradoxical things when the history of a place and its current functions and uses collide.
Hӧfer's photographed interiors are places of transition, but also for the accumulation, storage and organization of knowledge - locations of the cultural memory, designed for collective use.
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