‘… we kept going.
The landscape defined by precise, engineered lighting: machines orbit the system; bodies turn within a wheel. A cold reality takes hold in which collapse is not an end but a daily routine. No pause, just a permanent frequency — a system that lost its exit route and chose repetition instead. In this architecture of fatigue, rules dominate in an ancient but poetic way. Adapting to a logic of the repeating gestures, the engineered nature executes the closed-circuit routine of a machine.
Power movement without advancement, endurance operating life. This is a world running on inherited muscle memory, performing a script that no longer requires human input to continue.’
Where the first phase observed presence dissolving (→), this second state is about rhythm refusing to stop. ‘We kept going.’ — the second chapter of the ESC 2035 trilogy. From over six hundred submissions, seven artists remain to execute this permanent frequency.
The ESC sequence began with a nature-dominated landscape before technology appeared as a strict condition. Now, the narrative reaches a locked state. Repetition has embedded itself so deeply that the capacity for change is gone — leaving only the machine’s routine.
Hosted in collaboration with the at SUNSET (→), led by Marius Lut and Rob Knijn. A former girls’ school in Scheveningen, the site’s history of discipline provides the physical floor for a script running on repeat. It is where institutional memory meets a future that refuses to stop.
Artists: Andrei Nacu, Bas van Wieringen, Bea Targosz, Joan Horrach, Lukas Zerbst, Matteo Vettorello, Santiago Colombo Migliorero.
Exhibition dates: 10–25 April 2026.
Curated by 0—1 (→).