Haute Couture - Skinning 41 - Timber | Stefanie Scheurell

Stefanie Scheurell's artistic quest usually leads her to show the effects of the destruction of bodies and certain ideals of beauty in our time, especially in women. In the décollages, such as the one presented here, however, her focus is on an architecture and not on a human being. Stefanie Scheurell mostly works in negative here, and the end result is a different kind of beauty that does not correspond to the standard imposed by the media, but it is sublime and also alienated.

Stefanie Scheurell's works contradict a socially imposed and anchored ideal image of female beauty. The artist opposes a system consensus conveyed by the cosmetics and fashion industry, she alienates both advertising posters and magazines and thus counteracts forced superficiality. Advertising material is destroyed, cut up, severed and changed. Stefanie Scheurell allows a look into the depths that reveals new values ​​and guiding principles. She works with different themes that move between nature, physicality, transience and self-portraits. Sandpaper and scalpel are among the tools she uses to work on the paper, expose it to water and sun and thus create innovative representations of the human body.
Her series of chicory ceramics, which has become an ongoing cross-media project for the artist, also refers directly to people and is in direct connection with the people portrayed.
Stefanie Scheurell studied at the State Academy of Arts in Karlsruhe.

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