"Circular Body" consists of eight installation pieces in which the circle is the base component, with a ninth piece placed symbolically as the point, the center of the circle. This geometrical shape evokes our notion of time, cycles and motion, like the rotation of planets and galaxies around a center. The circle, as an abstraction of the sphere, is present from the eye to the telescope; from ovule to earth.

The focus of Alejandra Almuelle’s work is the human form. The body not only carries our genetic memory, but it is the biological archive of experience. We are historically shaped and conditioned by the environment and by the same socioeconomic structures we have participated in creating. The human body is both witness and event, as well as the field where these two aspects are at play. Her work points to this juncture. Through the human form in its different iterations, Almuelle shifts attention beyond form to what is implicit: the event, the experience that has taken place.

Following the opening reception, the exhibit will be on display until May 9.