New Constellation

New Constellation is a site-specific installation by SuttonBeresCuller created for Yellow No. 5 at the Bellevue Arts Museum. Curated by Tariqa Waters, the exhibition framed color as both material and metaphor, inviting artists to consider the tension between the natural and the artificial.

Suspended in space, the work gathers hundreds of yellow consumer objects—collected over several months—into dense, glowing clusters. These forms hover like celestial bodies, transforming familiar, everyday materials into a speculative landscape. Items ranging from rubber boots to packaged foods are recontextualized, their uniform color collapsing distinctions between utility, desire, and waste.

Through accumulation and saturation, New Constellation reflects on the rhythms of contemporary American life. The installation engages humor and excess while pointing to the cycles of consumption that shape our built and social environments. At the same time, it suggests moments of collective recognition—where shared cultural artifacts become points of connection, memory, and meaning.

By translating mass-produced objects into a suspended, almost cosmic arrangement, the work shifts the language of consumer culture into something immersive and experiential—an environment that is at once playful, critical, and strangely luminous.