A Basic Unit of Reality, curated by Dr Eloise Govier, brought together a group of artists who individually explore, interrogate, and challenge how reality is seen, felt, touched and understood.

Alice Quarterman's mixed media work, O, and untitled knotted elastics foregrounded rhythm and experience in the installation, to challenge calendar time whilst querying the distinction between the actual and in/actual.

Collections of objects, actions or traces act as units, helping the viewer to break down the implied passage of time that the empathetic imagination interprets and (re)performs. The artist proposes an alternative to the 'atomic time' of the objective clock, considering instead the units of a mutable, rhythmic, organic time.