SLEEK EDITIONS I Isabelle Wenzel "Look at me" #2

(b. 1982, Germany) studied to be a photographer/artist, but is also a trained acrobat. Usu- ally, she sets her own body before the camera. Within the seconds that the self-timer al- lows her, she assumes an impossible position and continues to hold it until the camera has clicked.

The central focus of the photographs of Isabelle Wenzel is the body as a physical form, rather than people themselves. By making a photograph, she freezes a pose in time as it were, and in doing so draws attention to the sculptural qualities of the body. In order to achieve a certain image, the manoeuvres need to be carried out repeatedly. In this way, Wenzel does her own little experimental performance in front of the camera, which captures it for us in ‘frozen’ form as a photograph.