German artist Isabelle Wenzel creates surreal and dynamic studies of human bodies in motion. In her series Figures (2012), her female models – mostly Wenzel herself – appear as sculptures on a plinth, bent into strange shapes, cowering and hiding. In Building Images (2010) she used similar techniques to make a wry comment on the secretary’s place in the modern office. Her intense focus on the human body and its contortions makes a little more sense when you find out that she was a promising acrobat as a child, spending her formative years somersaulting and backflipping. She currently lives in Amsterdam with her baby daughter.
Hi Isabelle! Where’s your head at right now?