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Alicja Kwade. In Circles (12h), 2017. Brass clock hands on cardboard, in bespoke frame. 26 x 21 cm. Edition of 18, signed and numbered. Full price (framed): £2200 including VAT. (Members' Price: £1980). Alicja Kwade's edition for the Whitechapel Gallery is comprised of twelve individual brass watch hands, arranged in a circular form around a single point. This exquisitely delicate work resembles a clock face, but one, which reduced to separate parts, has neither chronology or measurement. The title In Circles (12h), 2017, refers to the number of hours on a clock face. Time pieces and clock hands recur throughout Kwade's practice, often altered or estranged from their usual function. The edition also relates to Kwade's 2012 installation of the same title. In Circles 2012, is assembled from components including wood, copper, brass, glass, aluminium, granite, steel, mirror, bronze, MDF, neon tube and found objects, arranged in circular paths leading into equally distant spaces around the centre.