Circles on the Floor
Friday, May 29, 2026 · 5:00 PM – Sunday, May 31, 2026 5:00 PM
Artists
SET is pleased to present Circles on the Floor, a group exhibition curated by Polly Plowden at SET Vauxhall.
Bringing together four artists working across interdisciplinary practices, including installation, performance, and video, the exhibition is informed by years of inquiry into the contemporary art phenomenon of placing virtually anything in a circle on the floor.
Central to the installation is a custom-built bar, with drinks served by The Pegram Collection.
Event details
Opening: Friday 29 May, 5-9pm
Dates: 29-31 May
Opening hours: 12-5pm
Location: SET Vauxhall, Camelford House, 89 Albert Embankment, London, SE1 7TP
Admission: Free
Contributing artists
Cecilia Sargent - Cecilia Sargent explores notions of aspiration, desire and failure within her interdisciplinary practice. Often with a performative D.I.Y materiality – her work aims to visualise the tragicomic emotions of trying but never quite getting it right.
Lucas D’Praser Corp - Lucas D’Praser Corp restages images and objects to create speculative memory. He sets relics in a material tension to interrogate the politics of backwardness, and its aesthetic potential.
Polly Plowden - Polly Plowden explores the rehearsal of reality within everyday life, examining how chaos, repetition, and mediation shape meaning through quieter, overlooked narratives embedded in domestic spaces.
Alex Heard - Alex Heard makes performance, video and installation which often explore frictions of bitterness, refusal, or absurdity. A concern of his has been the carbon-capture of ‘meaning’ in the field of contemporary art.
About SET’s Associate Members Programme
This exhibition is presented as part of SET’s Associate Members Programme, which offers artists studio space alongside access to project spaces and opportunities to independently curate exhibitions, workshops, and events.
The programme supports a wide range of practices, from performance and installation to music, sound, print, and textiles, and is designed to provide space, visibility, and development opportunities for early-career and underrepresented artists working in London.
Poster design: Lucas D’Praser Corp
Bringing together four artists working across interdisciplinary practices, including installation, performance, and video, the exhibition is informed by years of inquiry into the contemporary art phenomenon of placing virtually anything in a circle on the floor.
Central to the installation is a custom-built bar, with drinks served by The Pegram Collection.
Event details
Opening: Friday 29 May, 5-9pm
Dates: 29-31 May
Opening hours: 12-5pm
Location: SET Vauxhall, Camelford House, 89 Albert Embankment, London, SE1 7TP
Admission: Free
Contributing artists
Cecilia Sargent - Cecilia Sargent explores notions of aspiration, desire and failure within her interdisciplinary practice. Often with a performative D.I.Y materiality – her work aims to visualise the tragicomic emotions of trying but never quite getting it right.
Lucas D’Praser Corp - Lucas D’Praser Corp restages images and objects to create speculative memory. He sets relics in a material tension to interrogate the politics of backwardness, and its aesthetic potential.
Polly Plowden - Polly Plowden explores the rehearsal of reality within everyday life, examining how chaos, repetition, and mediation shape meaning through quieter, overlooked narratives embedded in domestic spaces.
Alex Heard - Alex Heard makes performance, video and installation which often explore frictions of bitterness, refusal, or absurdity. A concern of his has been the carbon-capture of ‘meaning’ in the field of contemporary art.
About SET’s Associate Members Programme
This exhibition is presented as part of SET’s Associate Members Programme, which offers artists studio space alongside access to project spaces and opportunities to independently curate exhibitions, workshops, and events.
The programme supports a wide range of practices, from performance and installation to music, sound, print, and textiles, and is designed to provide space, visibility, and development opportunities for early-career and underrepresented artists working in London.
Poster design: Lucas D’Praser Corp
By SET