Scale

My temporally-based perception of space comes from architecture, I look for a physical spatiality, I want to provoke an impact on people’s bodies. The eye is part of the body and the body relates to things, it looks at them. On the other hand, my relationship with architecture was conflictive and this eventually became a starting point for questioning what a project is and how it becomes something complex for the artist to deal with. So, I try to deconstruct all that I learned about architecture in my works. I would rather open the way for a new understanding of space, in which it would cease to exist as such. It thus becomes necessary to mobilize this space so as to break our usual way of perceiving it. There are actual layers of meanings and different forms of perceiving a particular space and those can be highlighted or not, the viewer is ultimately led to see things that he probably wouldn’t perceive on his own. Most of the materials I use on my sculpture are found in architecture practice, they have a well-defined functionality. In my work, I try to take materials out of its context and at the same time highlight its qualities, these functions and properties are often being subverted. 

Ana Holck