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31.03.2011 to 21.04.2011

Perception is more than seeing. Our sight simply catalogues what is there, whereas perception - that moment when something in our inner world crystallises around an object in the external world - creates a third thing that did not exist before.

"I might be driving past a building site or road works and I catch something out of the corner of my eye. Something not worth a second look. And yet for me, it is no longer something I am travelling past on my way to somewhere else, but suddenly a destination in itself."

Kate Williams's (re)creation of a found object from a construction site is at once a work of miraculous serendipity and a dialogue between the traditions of minimalism on the one hand and the Duchampian challenge to the 'art object' on the other. While evoking both of these idioms, her interest lies in exploring what guides our perception and what it reveals about the nature of ourselves and of the world.

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