Katinka Bock’s work is rooted in a discursive conception of sculpture, photography and language. Form is often the result of a process in which the rational and unpredictable meet. Each of her installations defines a space and often seems to fight the claustrophobia of exhibition spaces, tending to open doors, windows and walls to escape, or to let the rain in. Using ceramics, wood, bronze and copper, she creates forms that explore temporality and space, territories and their inhabitants, stories and murmurs. The process of natural alteration is part of a continuous movement between outdoor and indoor spaces, exhibition space, production site and mental space. Sculpture is the core of her work, while photography is on the margins to unravel with curiosity the precariousness of our shared, human space.
For her exhibition at Couvent des Jacobins, the artist will include among her works sculptures by Toni Grand (1935-2005), forming a duo with the leading figure in French sculpture of the seventies and eighties. The artists share a preoccupation for the process that shapes form, a sensitivity to the properties of materials, a consideration of the fundamentals of sculpture, and a sense of paradox, strangeness or surprise.