Katinka Bock
Raus I, 2006 and Raus II, 2006
Super 8 transferred to HD video, black and white, no sound
Katinka Bock’s twin videos are somewhat ominous and mischievous. In Raus I mist is seeping across what could be a snow-covered field, when suddenly something shatters this scene. Similarly, in Raus II a house or barn is depicted in an eerie calm, until in a burst of chaos the glass jumps out of all the windows and the two doors wobble in their hinges.
These video works stand in dialogue with how Bock has described her installations, which are intended to 'define a space and often seem to wrestle against the claustrophobia of the exhibition spaces; tending to open doors, windows, walls, holes by which to escape or to let in rain or air.' This direct challenging of the space can be taken literally in Raus II, but together with Raus I, it becomes a more poetic musing on humans’ tendency to sculpt and control the landscape.