Shared Letters - Katinka Bock & castillo/corrales

In 2009, artist Katinka Bock set up a per­ma­nent library in Bétonsalon Center for art & research. Called Shared Letters, the library was designed by the artist and by the man­agers of the book­shop Section 7 Books.

Shared Letters is a work of the German artist Katinka Bock, whose pur­pose is to stim­u­late, with public par­tic­i­pa­tion, the cre­ation of a per­ma­nent library for Bétonsalon. The artist has pro­duced one hun­dred sculp­tures, ceramic white bricks, to be spread from September 14th on. They are doomed to dis­ap­pear, according to the wishes of the artist, who still expresses another will: that each person wishing to take and keep a sculp­ture, in turn, buys a book at the spe­cial­ized in con­tem­po­rary art book­store, Section 7 Books, to offer Bétonsalon and thus to con­sti­tute the first books in its library shelves. During the Playtime fes­tival Section 7 Books offers a selec­tion of books, specif­i­cally defined in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Katinka Bock, for the pro­ject Shared Letters.

Consultation online of Shared Letters list

Katinka Bock was born in 1976 in Frankfurt / Main. She lives and works in Berlin and Paris. She is rep­re­sented by Galerie Jocelyn Wolff in Paris.
www.galeriewolff.com

Section 7 Books is castillo/cor­rales’ book­shop. It is an attempt to estab­lish in Paris an infras­truc­ture that plays an active role in the ecology of small-press pub­lishing. The pro­jects included in S7B are the results of invested endeavors, one- or two- person enter­prises most of the time, artists, writers or edi­tors who believe that the expe­ri­ence of looking at and thinking about art is always inex­tri­cably tied to reading, dis­cussing, and cir­cu­lating printed mate­rial. They are books that often find an audi­ence one person at a time, passed from hand to hand – not meant to be con­sumed as infor­ma­tion, but to be read.
www.castil­lo­cor­rales.fr