source: sweet-station

‘ A project to shatter the rigidness of a material such as cement and make it seem mercurial and fragile. Erika Hock (born in 1981) is a young German artist who likes to break walls as she plays with their resistance. All that’s needed in fact is a belt to damage the clean and rigid geometry of a hunk of wall. An approach that may well contest the “infrastructural ideas” that currently permeate modern art.
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source: thefunambulist

Erika Hock creates some very interesting installation illustrating a force developing enough energy to break a wall. The device is pretty simple since it only implies a set of adjustable straps but the process it sets up is so powerful that it can be seen as a wall breaking machine that pressure the wall so intensively that it breaks down little by little.
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source: raddblog

An Installation in wood, plasterboard, latexfoam, plaster, ratchett tie-down by Erika Hock at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, “Weil ich es sag” (Because I Say So) holds incredible tension about the anticipation and brink of failure.
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source: floresenelaticoes

Potente obra en la que la artista Erika Hock consigue doblegar a su antojo grandes y pesadas moles de impecable materia blanca. Algo así como si simples trazos de color, en forma de tensores de goma, acabaran venciendo tremendas e inmaculadas superficies blancas.
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source: enquireit

Si dice cemento e si intende qualcosa di statico, di resistente, di massiccio. Non in questo caso, Erika Hock è una giovane artista tedesca che con le sue sculture riesce a ribaltare la concezione classica, restituendo al cemento un aspetto inusuale: il cemento diventa fragile.