Angela Kehlenbeck

I choose a moment in time and let the sculpture tell its story.

The small human figures I work on are bodies I know, scenes I remember or imagine, that have touched and influenced my life. Working on these delicate sculptures – made of simple wire, tape, glue and (selected) newspaper clippings from NYT and ZEIT – is a slow process. Shaping the figure and tenderly tracing the nuances of this person’s body and posture opens up new spaces of deep understanding and empathy for her story, for the fragility of human existence and its resilience. Intimate, emotional works are created in which I deal with a part of my history, my family or with scenes I envision – while transferring these personal stories into sculptures that, in their intriguing vividness, tell of complex human conditions such as exhaustion, withdrawal, solitude or tense concentration, of a life-defining step, a moment of weightlessness or calm clarity.