Fish in the Net is a series of exhibitions that address the volatility and deterioration of infrastructure; how the systems that enable the circulation of materials, people, labor, culture and power can be undermined, degraded, hijacked, subverted or pushed to failure. Throughout this series, we are interested in deterioration for its own sake, but also in “new” ideas or potentials that result from systems in states of distress.

The first exhibition of Fish in the Net, 2026:LIGHT, comprises mostly light-emitting, mostly electronic sculptures, as well as other works which utilize light as a resource or medium. Installed among high piled inventories of hosiery in the Sheerly Touch-Ya Warehouse, the artworks in the show exist in various states of malfunction and misuse - unpredictable flipsides of utility. A lettuce “bolts” when misread signals trigger premature flowering, resulting in frantic, leggy growth that frustrates the gardener. An autonomous vacuum cleaner occasionally sprouts a phantom room and will not rest until it’s clean. The Gordian worm growing inside a cricket induces positive phototaxis - an overwhelming attraction to light - which drives the cricket to drown itself in the glimmer of its own reflection, releasing the worm. Mechanisms continue to operate as signals become displaced, functions mutate, and internal logics produce unintended consequences. Fish in the Net: LIGHT is luminous, decaying, restless and grafted, examining the diversion and dissolution of our utilitarian systems.

Fish in the Net 2026: Light is organized by Shisanwu and Sheerly Touch-Ya Warehouse. It includes works by Ajay Kurian, Alex Ito, Anam Rani, Andre Magana, Anthony Discenza, Aric Grauke, Banks Violette, Brian Oakes, Cacie Rosario Jackson, Caitlin McCann, Carly Mandel, Catherine Telford Keogh, Cooper Jacoby, Craig Jun Li, Emiri, Faraz Ghorbanpour, fields harrington, Ginevra Shay, Isaac Silber & Susana Kwon, Jacob Kassay, Julianna Davis, Jean Pierre Mot, Kenneth Tam, Kii Kang, Kyung Me & Earth Monuments, Magdalena Dukiewicz, Maximiliano Rosiles, Mianwei Wang, Mira Dayal, Mo Kong, Nina Rappaport, Olivia Berke, Peggy Chiang, Rohan V. Khanna, Ryan Kuo, Saulius Valaitis, Serena Chang, Shadi Harouni, Sharon Cheuk Wun Lee, Taezoo Park, Tang Han, Tianyi Sun, Victoria Reshetnikov, Ying Chuin Lee, Zakariya Abdul-Qadir, and Zhang Ruyi.

Exhibition Programming:

– Isaac Silber & Susana Kwon, searching, sleeping, dreaming

– gmtc - golden monkey trading company 金猿商社

with tamara khasanova & fields harrington

        mianwei wang 

– Sofia Thieu Damico, HOLY MOTORS

– Anh Vo, Exhibition Closing Performance

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