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Isabelle Wenzel
Counting Till Ten
€30,00
19 × 26 cm, 176p, ills colour / b&w, hardcover
ISBN 978949314657
design and edit: Jurgen Maelfeyt
ISBN 978949314657
design and edit: Jurgen Maelfeyt
edition of 500
October 2020
October 2020
In ‘Counting Till Ten’, Isabelle Wenzel plays a game. A game where she challenges herself as well as the viewer. Improvisation is an important element in this game. Things happen by mistake. Wenzel questions the role of the camera and the one of the (female) body. She makes use of her own body as a model in order to convey an image by movement. Wenzel works in a fast, direct and very spontaneous way. Photographer and model become one. Performance is always present in her work. She sculptures an image by use of her body, gravity and the environment. She makes the viewer conscious of his or her own body, while narcissistically being occupied with that of her own. What is it like to be a physical being?
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Isabelle Wenzel (°1982) uses her own body as a ‘responsive form’, taking photographs of herself in impossible positions and a surrealistic and theatrical setting within the ten seconds that the self-timer allows her. She emphasises the body as a physical form and draws attention to the sculptural qualities of the body by freezing a pose in time as it were with her ‘magical performance’. The theatrical setting can evoke a humoristic effect but with her work Wenzel also speaks out against the idea of the woman as an object and the medialization of the female body.
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