January 10, 2001 — February 10, 2001 76 Grand Street, New York Maggie Cardelus' exhibition, Circus, fused photography and sculpture. The work was constructed from family snapshots, enlarged, cut and constructed into a room-sized sculptural installation. The artist created visual poetry out of personal history. The form, in the artist's words, is "like the ghost of a snapshot." The work's ornamental form is based on the oval shape made by a spotlight in a circus as the light lands on the ground. The artist is interested in the lightness and fragility of the form corresponding to the fragility of memory and the photographic medium. A photograph of one of the artist's sisters emerges from a lattice-cut pattern as an indication of the work's medium and subject matter. Cardelus located identity in family, and her work reflects these deep and intricate roots.