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A Circle Is the Only Shape Defined by its Centre is set within a play composed of an undefined number of scenes. The core dramatis personae, C, M, B, and A, are shared with Sarah Kane's last published piece, Crave, from which the show borrows its title. Interpreting the centre as the Subject and the circle as the World in Kane’s wording, A Circle covers scenes XXI to XXX in the play, fragmentarily. A transcript of Scene XXIII functions as the exhibition text, setting the stage and loosely tying the presentation together.  

Dramatis personae translates from the Latin as 'the characters of a play', or more accurately, 'the masks of the drama.' Persona first named the theatrical mask worn in Greek and Roman performance, its most likely etymology connecting it to per-sonare, 'to sound through,' the mask through which the actor's voice projected. From 'mask,' the sense grew more abstract: the role an actor played, then the role a person plays in life, and eventually the person as a bearer of legal and social standing, a being capable of holding rights and duties under Roman law. The term became central too in early Christian theology, where the Trinity spoke of three personae in one substance: distinct roles or modes of being rather than separate beings.
Each exhibited work appears to refer to a scene, each title preceded by one of the initials signifying the characters, as though the work were the abstraction of that character's action within the scene. Yet each character is itself, already an abstraction. 


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A Circle Is the Only Shape Defined by its Centre
presentation at affair, Berlin
with a performance by Martin Rovan
curated by Lena Pfälli, Clara & Julia von Schantz
25 April — 9 May 2026

photos by Love Landefjord