Toxic
Katinka Bock
Born in 1976 in Frankfurt am Main (Germany), lives and works in Paris (France).
Date:
2019
Medium:
Red copper, I-beam
Dimensions:
15x30x330cm
Toxic, 2019
© DR
With Toxic, an oversized copper spoon, Katinka Bock revisits one of the topoi of art history.
Inspired by the so-called ‘swimmer spoons’ of ancient Egypt or Alberto Giacometti’s spoon women, Toxic evokes a figure that, thanks to its horizontality, can receive or give both venom and antidote.