WORK
Circular Interface: Insulation
INFO
Installation
Aluminum Profiles / Aluminum Connectors / Custom Aluminum Plates / Synthetic Stone Panel / Insulators / Linear Shaft Bearings / High-Speed Steel Saw Blades / Stainless Steel Finned Heating Tubes / Universal PCB Board / Screws / Hooks
80 × 93 × 5 cm
Edition of 3 + 2 AP
2025
DESCRIPTION
Circular Interface consists of eight custom-built structural units. Each unit is assembled from aluminum profiles and CNC-milled aluminum panels forming a nine-grid framework. The front surface of each panel is precisely engraved with the Chinese character for Like (赞), echoing the ubiquitous Like button across social media. The nine grids are joined by multi-screw aluminum connectors, maintaining a strict and modular geometry — the structure resembles both a standardized social-media interface and the barred window of a cell. On the reverse side, a milled circular barbed-wire pattern serves as a visual emblem, hinting at the hidden mechanisms of control behind the interface. Beneath the seemingly gentle surface of social imagery lies a field of surveillance, discipline, and partitioned vision. Together, the eight units form a closed loop — a structural model of algorithmic circulation — enclosing the viewer within the space of the interface itself.
Circular Interface: Insulation employs a dark gray composite stone base combined with high-voltage ceramic insulators, stainless-steel finned heating tubes, miniature bearings, and a high-speed steel saw blade, forming an extremely cold and mechanical interface. The surface appears hard and silent, while the internal components sustain a fragile tension between conduction and isolation. Here, insulation refers not only to physical separation but also to the psychological and perceptual isolation of the social-media age. The flow of information is regulated, emotional heat is cooled, and the exchange of energy between individuals is safely enclosed within algorithmic structures.





