Window is pleased to announce a brick stands for a brick, an exhibition for our onsite gallery by Katrina Beekhuis. a brick stands for a brick is a body of work which attempts to monitor and track how perceptions of objects and things in the world form.

At first glance, a brick stands for a brick is a series of reproductions, but with time, one notices that the small details preserved in a captured object, the circumstances of the encounter, have been compressed too. In this way, the “original” becomes a “model” and our expectations about what it does become quotations, located adjacent and external to it. Subsequently, ensuing layers of representation produce a “thinness” that becomes incrementally and unexpectedly, a source of autonomy. These “re-presentations” thus seek to reposition objects in a “carefully adjusted state,” moving away from content and meaning in order to get closer to how something behaves, how it gathers agency, at the same time allowing for the relations between things to come to the fore.

“I don’t see these as reproductions I feel like they are primary things, they are another 'I'," Beekhuis has stated. By shifting expectation and confronting habitual thinking, these delicate yet concrete “remakes” will reveal at times, the contingency and thinness of the originals.

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Katrina Beekhuis (b.1984) lives and works in Auckland. She graduated PgDipFA from Elam School of Fine Arts in 2011. Recent shows include, Getting Close to It at Snake Pit Window, 2012, Queens Chain, Snake Pit, 2012, Elam Graduate Show, 2011.