Katinka Bock

Much of her work is based on fluid movements – instead of breaking, chiseling or hacking, her materials are shaped, folded, cut, or simply placed in a context-specific constellation or construction.

Bock prefers to integrate natural materials such as leather, wood, stone, fabric, plaster, ceramics or graphite, as well as individual found or otherwise unusual objects.

Redirecting already occurring sources of water within both urban and rural landscapes, she builds structures that create a symbiotic relationship between the piece and the context in which it is placed.

One such example is the piece Hysteros, in which a wooden module placed in a Toulousian exhibition space is connected by a cable to the branch of a tree standing on a riverbed outside.

Some works, such as Winter or Seechamäleon are transported from their previous locations, existing between two different temporal experiences, marked by their past in an uncannily human manner.