Site 005. Circle Things is a constellation of works by interdisciplinary visual artists Sam Christian, Evelyne Leblanc-Roberge, Ty Pawlowski, iris wu, and Madeleine Young. Installed in a compact cube space in the East Village, the presentation brings together the five artists whose practices revolve through webs of connection, documentation, intervention, modularity, and inquiry.

Circle Things investigates how circularity informs the way we see and are seen, make, relate, and return. The works trace elliptical paths of perception, presence, and participation, orbiting through relational pull, lenses and misapprehentions, return and reconfiguration, circularnorms and standard, and mutual activiation and site witnessing.

At our temporary home at 618 E 9th St, New York, these works ask viewers to complete the loop—through attention, rhythm, and presence. Some gestures degrade, regenerate, or recur; some watch back. Circle Things is an invitation to re-encounter, misread, and reconfigure. Surveillance, subtly embedded throughout the exhibition, is not only technological—it is habitual and affective. It is the loop of perception: who sees, who is seen, what is revealed, what remains obscured. Each pass through the space unfolds new frames of attention and new ways of getting it wrong.

Photos courtesy of Site Service
Photographed by Farfar studio


Special thank you to
HK Jang
Anselm Dästner