Circulation (2026)

Circulation, the first solo exhibition in Latvia by Gabija Grušaitė, opening on May 28, 2026. With this project, Grušaitė, a Lithuanian best-selling writer and artist with a background in anthropology, continues her exploration of literature expanded into the space of art.

Curated by the duo Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, the exhibition brings together a new body of work conceived for the occasion, including a video installation, a series of drawings, and a sculptural intervention. Together, these works examine the functions and dysfunctions within systems of exchange between human environments and the outside world.

Circulation is a meditation on the material circuits that regulate contemporary life, from the domestic and the touristic to the planetary. Increasingly mediated by bureaucracy, architecture, and engineering structures, these flows of information are intercepted by the artist and reconfigured into a paradoxically poetic narrative.

Two presences, in particular, assert themselves within the gallery space. The first is a monumental sculpture that appears to cry or perspire, its surface activated by a mechanism that simultaneously heats and cools it. The second is a wall composed of underfloor heating panels, which serves as the support for a two-channel video installation. By inverting and exposing the architecture of the exhibition space, the wall transforms functional building materials into an abstract composition, while the screens present six chapters of a fragmented narrative exploring forms of contact between human and non-human subjects. In contrast to these imposing presences, delicate engravings on semi-transparent plates conclude the exhibition, tracing mental cartographies and suggesting possible routes of escape.

With Circulation, Grušaitė explores her narrative voice across different styles, ranging from construction manuals to love songs. The artist’s gaze is focused on the desire, and the ultimate impossibility, for human beings to isolate themselves from the world. This mechanical fable thus becomes a declaration of surrender to codependency.

The exhibition is part of RAW | Riga Art Week 2026.