Installation 1 : Suspended Flight

By Madina Masimova and Yoel Langomas

So-Le is the interplay of phenomena of bioluminescence and urban scape. Iridescent petals spawn from existing city structures catching sunlight, reflecting onto buildings and transmitting a spectrum of color onto the streets.

So-Le invites to experience the subtle shifting beauty of light as it transforms the familiar into the extraordinary.

Viewers are encouraged to re-examine elements of the city they were once accustomed to.

Installation 2 : S0-LE

By Madina Masimova and Yoel Langomas

Suspended Flight comes to life in the morning hours revealing its shadows to the urban life of the East Village.

The symbolic presence of hummingbirds represents resilience, joy, and the unexpected beauty found in the city scape.

As the sun moves across the sky shadows flutter, echoing the constant evolution of the East Village where creativity and culture continuously reshape the environment.

Installation 3：YAFFA

By Leela Shanker

Yaffa means beautiful in Hebrew. As we walk the neighborhood, past bags of garbage, outcast furniture and detritus of nights before, patterns of dappled light often appear in our path as we pass beneath sidewalk trees. These familiar circles are multiple images of the sun, caused by the camera obscura effect of light passing through the pinhole gaps in foliage.

Evoking the beauty of this familiar pattern that threads together pieces of pavement from disparate streets, Yaffa picks up the scattered suns and casts them up onto a thin slice of facade that once held a mural commissioned by owners of East Village institution, the 24-hour Yaffa Cafe. The cafe was known to locals over its 32-year history as an all-access bar for night-long revelry. At its entrance, was an iconic street art work that became the poster for East Village nightlife - screaming “Open all nite” to passersby at all hours. The loss of the street art piece was mourned by locals when covered by advertising on the cafe’s closure. Just recently reopened by new owner, Russell Steinberg of Cecilia, a work by artist Taboo has returned.

For one moment a day a new lightwork adds to the untouched canvas above. An instrument of light mounted on the fence of Little Mish, is calibrated to cast light onto the facade for a midday “performance” just as the street erupts with parents spilling over pavement and road in anticipation of their children emerging from school gates on both north and south sides of the road. At that time, conditions of shadow from the obstruction of the walkup building provide sufficient luminous contrast to reveal the throw of light caught from the sun passing at the south east. It celebrates a rare moment of alignment and a canon of light and shadow that will accompany parent and child on their walk home.

Installation 4 : Silverlaced

By Marta Casarin

Silverlaced is a site-specific installation located in the unused concrete beds in front of 107 St Marks Place, a space that once held planting and landscaping but has long since been stripped of greenery.

This intervention responds to modern cities' growing disconnection from nature and explores the potential of forgotten urban spaces to become green pockets that reconnect us with the natural world. Using brick—the rudimentary building block of construction since ancient times and a defining feature of the East Village façade—the installation gently slopes, drawing the blue sky into the concrete and evoking the sense of a body of water.

A playful sparkle is reflected into the buildings across the street, catching the curiosity of passersby. Silverlaced invites pedestrians to reflect on the concept of space and time, interrogate on our immediate surroundings and drift on self-reflection.

Installation 5 : TELLTALE

By Liyi Pan

TELLTALE is a daylight interactive installation that reveals the true colors of sunlight. As sunlight passes through the shelves, vibrant hues are cast onto adjacent surfaces and people moving through the passage. The installation serves as a reminder of the beauty in our everyday sunlight, encouraging awareness of the often-overlooked moments in life.

The ultimate goal is to slow the fast pace of New York City, inviting people to pause, observe, and engage with their surroundings in a more playful and contemplative way.

Installation 6 : SOL GRAFFITI 

By Srushti Totadri

Since the mid-1800s St.Marks has been home to generations of New Yorkers ranging from German militia in the late 1800s to the punks of the 70s. Each building, sidewalk, storefront has reinvented itself multiple times to represent the cultural markers of it’s time. Despite the current moment in time where we see more franchises, when you look closely the street still lends itself to cultural expression in the form of vestigial signage, Jim Power’s mosaics or graffiti. 

Sol Graffiti pays homage to the layers of history hidden behind the city, revealing itself through the day as the sun hits it.