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BOOK ART
Bock, Katinka
Germany / France (1976 - )
Die Zeitung (Seattle)
2014
Bound volume of inkjet prints on recycled paper
16 1/2 x 11 3/4 in. (41.9 x 29.8 cm) closed size; 16 1/2 x 23 3/8 in. (41.9 x 59.4 cm) opened size
Gift of the artist
FA 2014.257
Keywords: Landscape; Digital print

These bound volumes titled Die Zeitung (“The Newspaper” in German) are part of an ongoing series of journals Katinka Bock produces in tandem with her site-specific projects as a visual meditation on process and place. The journals here were made with photographs that Bock took while she was working on her solo exhibition, Katinka Bock: A and I, at the Henry in 2014. They include images of soil and a construction site in the area of the Denny Regrade—a place where one of Seattle’s original seven hills was flattened for development in the early twentieth century. Bock removed soil from this area to make a sculpture at the Henry, displacing it from its site of origin and asking questions about the way materials hold histories and transform through movement and context, much like the movement of bodies through time and space, including her own.

Interested in gift exchange as a social phenomenon, Bock gifted these journals to the Henry, and has specified that they must never be sold, but always gifted.

Label copy for The Time. The Place. Contemporary Art from the Collection, November 4, 2017 to March 25, 2018.

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