The artist examines the close and contradictory relationship between man and animals. This goes back to the origins of humanity. The study of archaic representations and animals convinced her to place the Man-Animal relationship at the heart of her artistic work.
Buffalo head, woolly rhinoceros, horse, mammoth... The ceramic sculptures take us back to prehistory, to rock art but also to the history of the territory, reminiscent of the excavations of Lake Paladru. These discoveries confirm the pre-existing link between man and animals: between life, threat and legends. Beyond the figurative, it is the soul of these animals that Ule Ewelt reveals to us.
"ANIMA(L). The word "anima" is translated in different ways: it means soul, animated beings, life, but also breath of air, wind and breath. The word animal, for creature, animal in drift". Ule Ewelt (2019)
Ule Ewelt, learned ceramics at the age of 16, but it was not until much later that she professionalized herself to live from it. She first worked as a town planner for six years, turning to pottery. But it is finally the figurative ceramic that she will choose in 2011. “Now I feel absolutely authentic in what I do.” She was the first self-taught ceramist to join the Hessian ceramist guild in Germany (her native region). In 2013, she focused entirely on animal sculptures and experimented with different smoking techniques.