time is a flat circle brings together Erick Antonio Benitez, Ricardo Cabret, Lou Fauroux, and Umber Majeed to examine how contemporary mythology forms and circulates across digital images, networked infrastructure, and cultural exchange.
Erick Antonio Benitez layers Pokémon characters with Indigenous and diasporic symbols in a digital print set beneath a vinyl-cut acrylic gate modeled on architecture from El Salvador.
Ricardo Cabret paints fiber-optic cables and communication networks as metaphors for Puerto Rico's telecommunications infrastructure.
Umber Majeed traces Pakistani state iconography and early internet aesthetics through the visual language of diaspora, moving between the imagery of nuclear nationalism and the visual vernacular of South Asian kitsch.
Lou Fauroux works across film, sculpture, and installation to question the ethical stakes of artificial intelligence and virtual technologies, building speculative narratives around the internet's future flaws and failures. Lou Fauroux's practice grew out of a community of porn producers and actresses encountered in Los Angeles, drawing on the aesthetics of MTV pop ceremonies, YouTube clips, and pirated series.
