ASNI Gallery is pleased to announce Circulation, the first solo exhibition in Latvia by Gabija Grušaitė, opening on May 28 as part of Riga Art Week 2026. With this project, Grušaitė continues her exploration of literature expanded into the space of visual art. Working across speculative fiction, moving image, and sculpture, Grušaitė’s practice is grounded in research and inquiry, exploring the porous membranes between internal psychological worlds and social and material reality. Her work investigates how neurobiological survival patterns, shaped by historical trauma and the chronic fatigue of capitalist structures, manifest in social landscapes, the built environment, and everyday life.

Curated by the duo Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, the exhibition brings together a new body of work, including a video installation, a series of drawings, and a sculptural intervention. Together, these works examine how man-made constructions interact with natural systems – from migration to perspiration – causing regulation that is both functional and dysfunctional. Grušaitė traces unarticulated insecurities and longings, examining how they inform relationships with non-human worlds and challenge the perceived divide between nature and the human.

Examining climate control and insulation in urban development, Grušaitė considers the pursuit of warmth and comfort as both a survival strategy and a subtle form of self-imprisonment. Circulation is a meditation on the material circuits that regulate contemporary life – from domestic heating systems to the global tourism industry – the exhibition asks what happens when the bureaucratic, architectural, and engineering structures we’ve built to manage those systems start to show their seams.

Two presences, in particular, assert themselves within the gallery space. The first is a monumental sculpture activated by a mechanism that simultaneously heats and cools it. Appearing to cry or perspire, the work makes visible the physical alteration of its environment, continuously altering the temperature, humidity, and density of the air around it. The second is a two-channel video installation supported by a wall composed of underfloor heating panels. By inverting and exposing the architecture of domestic space, the installation transforms functional building materials into an abstract composition.

The moving image work presents six chapters of a fragmented narrative exploring forms of contact between human and non-human subjects. The poetic narration scrutinises the carefully managed encounters with nature that the tourism industry sells, and lingers on the paradox of being a species that can only access nature through the structures we have built to contain it. In contrast, delicate engravings on semi-transparent plates complete the exhibition, tracing mental cartographies and suggesting possible routes of escape for hypothetical beings trapped in eternal circuits of external and internal regulation.

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