30/03/2026
Next up at Project 78
NICHOLAS SHADDICK
The Surviving Object
🥂Opening Reception
Saturday 4th April 6-8pm
🗓️Exhibition continues
Saturday 2nd May 2026
🤗 All Welcome
Adopting multiple positions on the spectrum of maker, collector, curator, historian and cultural theorist, Shaddick explores how artworks condense as physical symptoms under the blows and counter-blows of the digital hegemony. The Surviving Object is an investigation on the boundary between the digital and physical afterlives of a group of historical etchings. The work explores the capacities of mirrored digital and material artifacts to project their forces into each other’s space affectively.
The Surviving Object is a space in which relationships between the material and digital presence of artworks might be intensified and experienced.
The Surviving Object models the eruption of the past from within the present. The unexpected appearance of these phantoms embodies a symptom of frightening depths that have been incompletely repressed.
The Surviving Object’s struggle is to make these repressed materials visible, especially in the containment or erasure of Elizabeth Ruth Escombe/Ruth Edwards, (1832–1907) and Clementina Elphinstone Fleeming/Clementina Maude, Viscountess Hawarden, (1822 -1865) whose thought can be traced as shaping presences within the work much as, in scientific research, the characteristics of apparently absent particles can be traced from their interactions with observable materials.
www.survivingobject.art
