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Circular Motion: Subverting Circumscription translates the symbol of the circle into a metaphor for the relationship between Cuba and the United States. The exhibition brings together seven distinct video installations by contemporary Cuban women artists Adriana Arronte, Yaniezky Bernal, Jeanette Chávez, Susana Delahante, Diana Fonseca, Marianela Orozco, and Naivy Pérez. In this exhibition, the 'circular motion' central to each work explores circumscription, constriction, and circulation in both the restrictive and generative aspect.

The artists in Circular Motion: Subverting Circumscription use their own bodies to enact a circular motion. The exhibition presents a diverse interpretation of 'circular motion,' from the apparent to the subtle. In The Foundry, circular motion is completed and repeated as the artist Susana Delahante walks obsessively in a circle. Adriana ... Arronte is the initiator of motion in Clots. BOX. In this piece the artist pushes huge slabs of hanging rock candy into motion, but the path of circularity can never be completed as the candy slabs crash violently into one another and proceeds upon a new path of circularity.

As contemporary artists become icons of globalism, the role of the artist increasingly includes that of national ambassador in an international arena. As a result of political attempts to halt economic circulation between the United States and Cuba, the artists in this exhibition have never been to the United States. Circular Motions: Subverting Circumscription is an effort to facilitate cultural circulation and break political circumscription.