Katja Schenker
Nougat, 2009
Concrete, various materials
H 78 3/4 x 78 3/4 x 19 3/4 in
Photo: JC Lett
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Since the 1990s, Katja Schenker has been developing a work that combines performance and sculpture, using drawing, photography and video to deepen and document the successive stages of her creative...
Since the 1990s, Katja Schenker has been developing a work that combines performance and sculpture, using drawing, photography and video to deepen and document the successive stages of her creative process. This work is the result of a performance piece which took place at the Sittertal Foundation in Saint-Gall, Switzerland in 2009. After digging a hole in the ground, the artist filled the hollow formed with various natural elements, which she then covered completely with concrete. At the end of the exhibition, the block of solidified concrete was extracted from the ground and its sides cut away to reveal the visible process of the work’s creation, like a geological core sample.