Isabelle Wenzel

Isabelle Wenzel was born in 1982. She started to get in contact with photography during her studies in Bielefeld, Germany at the University of Applied Science. She later moved to Amsterdam and graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam in 2010, where she studied to be a photographer and artist. She 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.