Keiyona C. Stumpf - Overview | SCHENKWEITZDÖRFER

Keiyona C. Stumpf engages deeply in her artistic work with the complexity and multilayered nature of beauty – beyond conventional aesthetic categories. Her sculptures unfold a subversive sensuality that is both seductive and provocative. The organically shaped forms evoke strange natural creatures, exotic plants, or deep-sea animals, creating a world that oscillates between reality and fantasy. In this encounter, a poetic, emotional, and intellectual space opens up for the viewer, one marked not by clarity but by ambiguity. Beauty here does not present itself as a harmonious ideal, but as a vital, contradictory, and challenging force.

The intense, often obsessive sensuality of the sculptures provokes and confronts the viewer with feelings of uncertainty and unease, while simultaneously inviting a deeper engagement with form and meaning. Their glossy, slippery surfaces evoke associations with nature, yet the seemingly sensual beauty is not free from threat—it can also be perceived as dangerous, destructive, or aggressive. Stumpf deliberately plays with this tension, which oscillates between aesthetic allure and potential danger.

At the same time, she incorporates art historical references, particularly to Mannerism and the Baroque, whose emotional intensity and dynamic expressiveness she continues in a contemporary form. Her sculptures exist in a state of constant transformation, reflecting the instability and uncertainty of our present-day world. Natural and artificial elements merge, boundaries are blurred—not only between form and content but also between object and space. The surrounding space is actively integrated into the sculptures' impact, creating a fluid relationship between the artwork and its environment.

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