Katinka Bock’s sculptures and installations cannel her interest in measurements, site specifics and their persistence of transformation over time. Her research is formalized in organic materials such as clay, stone, wood, bronze, plants, and water. For Kalender, the artist decided on a total number of cubes. She produced one each day, attempting to copy the previous one from memory. The sculpture is then activated during the course of the exhibition. Each day one cube is moved so that the work travels through the gallery. Their gradual migration across the exhibition presents another way of measuring space and time. Bock described the dynamics in the following way: “Just as I produced one cube per day, a cube must be moved each day of the exhibition, the last cube passing at the beginning of the line each time. Like a caterpillar or a mouse looking for the edge… We always measure the space from the edges; edges are the most interesting.”

Photos: Carré d'art de Nîmes, installation view, Pour un art Pauvre, at Carré d'Art-Musée d'art contemporain de Nîmes, 2011. Photographer: Marc Domage