Brick in, brick up, brick over and over
July 27 - August 26, 2017
Birch Contemporary, Toronto
Bricks are most often accompanied by other bricks. They are objects which become productive through repetition—brick by brick. Despite their reputation for firm, immobility, bricks have action built-in. To be precise, they are verbs as much as objects: closing, paving or facing by bricking in, up or over.
With Brick in, brick up, brick over and over, Shannon Garden-Smith presents a series of sculptures which disorient the work bricks do. Using domestic decorative fillers and foregrounding a tactile, repetitive process, Garden-Smith offers up objects which hold too much and too little in an attempt to resist predetermined, productivist ends.