Artist Stef Lenk is particularly interested in the interface between visual art and illustration, especially in illustrated books and visual novels.
She tells us that in the beginning she dealt with nude paintings, especially with bodies in medical books. In 2013 she started a project called ‘What’s in a head’ which was the visual cutting open of the human head. Then in 2018 Stef drew a story without words called Sisyphus which was the Sisyphus mythos retold from the perspective of the stone which had been birthed by a woman.
In 2017 she co-curated an international exhibition at the Berlin Charite medical facility called ‘Reclaiming Medical Sickness and Comics’. This involved some ten artists from all over the world who dealt with illness in the forms of comic books. Stef’s own contribution was called ‘The quickening’ and focussed on the first movements of children.
Much of this presentation looks at illustrations drawn by Stef Lenk in response to a collection of specimens of babies and miscarriages.
The response to Stef Lenk’s presentation from fellow artists.
