“Kika Thorne's constructivist installation partitions, dissects and parasitically claims the space it occupies through magnetic opposition. Deftly extending their potential, materials commercially available in the dressmakers shop and hardware store take a tensile hold on the architecture of the gallery, forming a model of an impossible physics for the viewer to negotiate.” —Moritz Gaede, Galerie ZK, Berlin
“…elastic, magnets, steel bolts, plexi — once vibrant innovations of modernity, now mundane units in the global constituency of overproduction. In combining these formal and material strategies Thorne establishes a powerful dialectic, setting modernist austerity and its moral elevation of rational-technical progress against the contemporary quotidian and its confused narratives of desire and responsibility." —Jem Noble, Spike Island, Bristol UK
“Thorne’s work draws within the full volume of the spaces she intervenes in. Her sculptures of everyday materials construct virtual architectures animating galleries and other found interiors with physical diagrams that cut and obstruct the space of perception and reception. —Adrian Blackwell, University of Toronto, Architecture Landscape & Design