Installation view, Fermata, 2020
Katinka Bock
Fermata
Fermata
3 September – 17 October 2020
For her second exhibition at Galerie Greta Meert, German artist Katinka Bock (b.1976 in Frankfurt am Main, lives and works in Paris) conceived an installation informed by Italo Calvino’s novel MR Palomar (1983). She developed Fermata around some of the key themes of this book — chiefly, how does one distil the process through which we perceive and quantify the world around us in order to create and assign meaning?
Katinka Bock, Monotonie – detail, 2020
Her sculptures present themselves in the form of specu-lations on the very questions that sparked their making
in the first place. They offer no definite solutions and no clear narratives but rely on a subtle equilibrium between materiality and placement. Like writing, their sculptural presence is imbued with a sense of mutability that allows them to express sensations simultaneously and in a linear fashion.
in the first place. They offer no definite solutions and no clear narratives but rely on a subtle equilibrium between materiality and placement. Like writing, their sculptural presence is imbued with a sense of mutability that allows them to express sensations simultaneously and in a linear fashion.
Installation view, Fermata, 2020
Katinka Bock, Fermata, 2020
Katinka Bock, One and one (New-York) – diptych, 2020