Katinka Bock       
Le Sol d'incertitude II, 2007
Tar, Parisian cobble-stone, 14 square metres
Exhibition view : Volumes en extension, Centre d'art Passerelle, Brest
Photo: Sebastien Durand
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Katinka Bock
(b 1976, Germany)

Katinka Bock reveals the historical and political charge that can be found in movements and materials, using a range of different media such as sculpture, site-specific installation and film. At the entrance of the gallery, Sol d’incertitude (2006) is composed of paving slabs taken from the streets of Paris and covered by the artist in tar. Their different sizes correspond to different historical periods, and this uneven surface becomes a metaphor for the recent political and social history of France. For PS: Jerusalem(2003), Bock has choreographed adults playing a game of musical chairs. This black and white and silent film, shot on Super 8 in the streets of Berlin, suggests found footage from a more remote past. The title refers to the German name for the game: ‘A Journey to Jerusalem’.