Pete and Repeat is a platform dedicated to artists’ publications, editions, projects, and content. The name originates from a fanzine we created for the gallery in 2008/09, which itself was inspired by Bruce Nauman’s Clown Torture (1987). 

Between 2020 and 2023, Pete and Repeat maintained a physical presence in the Brussels gallery within a structure designed by Anna Barham, part of her ongoing series Crystal Fabric Field. This structure served as a dynamic space for performances, multiples, and publications, aligning closely with the gallery’s programme.

We will recreate Barham’s structure at our new London location, establishing a responsive, curated platform that highlights local voices and histories, complementing and engaging with our exhibitions programme.

Barham designed the yellow Crystal Fabric Field Bracket (1016) to enable a way of building that mimics how crystals form by repeating the geometry of their unit cell over and over. The bracket is a structural instruction which defines the basic forms a structure can take, whilst the space it inhabits, and the objects and bodies it is designed to hold, are the foreign particles that inflect the precise dimensions and directions of its crystallisation. On the bracket’s three sides are cut-outs of a comma, an inverted comma and a full stop; marking an equivalence between architectural and syntactic structures that Barham draws throughout her practice.

The bracket was originally conceived for the exhibition architecture Barham designed to house Liquid Crystal Display (Site Gallery, Sheffield, 2018; MIMA, Middlesbrough, 2019). She has since gone on to use the bracket to create a series of benches, stands, shelves, and other support structures under the collective title Crystal Fabric Field. The title is developed from Donna Haraway’s 1976 work ‘Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors that shape embryos’, which explores the role and importance of metaphor in biology.