BETTINA BUCK

ANOTHER INTERLUDE [2015]

Bettina Buck’s video work Another Interlude builds on her earlier piece Interlude (2010), where she navigated a pastoral landscape with a large foam block. In Another Interlude, Buck performs a similar act within the galleries of Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, shifting from exterior to interior, landscape to architecture, and elemental to managed environments.

The video is accompanied by a gelatin silver print restaging Man Ray’s The Coat-Stand (1920), inspired by Buck’s visit to the GNAM, and a small marble sculpture formerly in her studio. Both works reflect her engagement with context and materiality, appearing in the video as part of her exploration of sculpture.

Buck’s practice emphasized sculpture’s core properties — gravity, weight, and surface — using transient materials like foam, bronze, and cardboard. Her works often highlighted relational dynamics (e.g., with space, spectators, or other works) and binaries such as natural/artificial and absence/presence, reflecting her performative approach to sculpture.