In 2025, marking its third consecutive year collaborating with Shanghai’s Rockbund Art Museum, Roll designed the scenography for solo exhibitions by Ash Moniz and Cici Wu. The studio also collaborated with Irena Haiduk on Nula, a year-long installation, and is currently developing two upcoming shows this fall: Afternoon Histories, a solo exhibition by Chinese artist Peng Zuqiang and Black Marxism, a group exhibition.
Irena Haiduk: Nula
Nula, a project by Irena Haiduk blending film, exhibition, and performance, unfolds within a continuously evolving space designed in close collaboration with Roll. Shot on location at the museum, the film is presented within an immersive installation where sets, pathways, and objects are animated by visitors who become participants, witnesses, or accomplices. On the second floor, Haiduk expands her research around Gaetano Pesce’s 1972 installation Housing Unit for Two People, inviting visitors into a disorienting space where perception is unsettled by a mirrored floor and a plan rotated 45 degrees. The museum itself becomes a film studio, a narrative framework, and a fictional economy, where space remains central to the story throughout.
Irena Haiduk: Nula
For Ash Moniz’s first solo exhibition in Asia, Roll collaborated closely with the artist to develop a three‑floor installation exploring the gaps, silences, and absences within global supply chains, moments where power breaks down and solidarity emerges. On the fourth floor, video, sculptural, and cartographic works examine labor control and loss‑prevention strategies, revealing how disruptions can be reclaimed as tools of resistance. The videos are presented in black box structures that recall shipping containers, echoing the material and spatial language of global logistics. The fifth floor hosts a large suspended table, inspired by those found at political summits, staging a “conference of the speechless,” activating silence as a form of defiance. On the sixth floor, the library’s atrium features a cartographic installation that maps alliances between distant ports, reframing proximity through shared conditions of labor and solidarity.
Ash Moniz: A Crack in the Shape of Light Getting In
With Lanterns from the Unreturned, Cici Wu presents her first institutional solo exhibition. Roll worked closely with the artist on the exhibition design, bringing together works on paper, video, and handmade paper lanterns. A series of translucent walls, conceived as lanterns themselves, structure the gallery by filtering light. Serving as both surfaces for display and projection, they create a sequence of porous, luminous subspaces that guide visitors through the exhibition.
Cici Wu: Lanterns from the Unreturned
