Katinka Bock’s Tumulte à Higienopolis currently at Lafayette Anticipations is a more than successful marriage of exhibition space and esthetic intelligence. The lines and light of the Anticipations’ space are a perfect medium for the unmoving movement that animates Bock’s sculptures.
“Rauschen”, a gaping, colorful and vertically anchored monumental bulge suspended through the center of the building, could be a conch shell, a blanket enfolding a child or a vortex.
This remarkable piece visually emphasizes the up-down or side-to-side positioning of the other works on display.
These include, among other strongly-crafted pieces sown over three floors, a field of naturalistic brass cactus, thick "rugs" (not titled) on a "clothesline", a covered reclining effigy ("Gisant") in pointy shoes and an overstuffed pincushion: the cacti strain up, the rugs flap, the effigy lays, the pincushion is pinned.
Karine, my companion, remarks that Bock’s works remind her that movement (mouvement) is not necessarily displacement (bouger). She’s right.
At Tumulte, where Bock’s hand touches, it points the “quantum” view, where fixed and solid, flux and flow are part of the same moment, if not of the same perceptual choice.
See Katinka Bock's work live if you can.
Katinka Bock’s Tumulte à Higienopolis continues at Lafayette Anticipations until 5 January 2020
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