‘We kept going.’ is the second chapter of ESC 2035, an exhibition trilogy that follows worlds shaped by persistence, pressure, and systems that continue past the point of reason. In this chapter, repetition becomes the dominant condition. Actions repeat, structures hold, and movement carries on without leading anywhere new. Across installation, sound, film, and kinetic works, seven artists approach this state from different positions, tracing routines that no longer seem chosen so much as inherited.
ESC is an ongoing exhibition format developed by 0—1 since 2020. Founded in 2017, 0—1 works as a nomadic contemporary art platform, organizing exhibitions across changing locations and conditions rather than from a fixed base. Its program focuses on the relationship between technology, natural forces, and human behavior, treating them not as separate fields but as parts of the same unstable environment. Within that wider sequence, ESC 2035 began with ‘… the world paused.’, a first chapter marked by absence, suspension, and the sense that systems and landscapes were continuing on their own. ‘We kept going.’ moves that trajectory forward, into a setting where continuity itself becomes the subject.
The exhibition is presented in collaboration with At SUNSET, run by Marius Lut and Rob Knijn, and takes place in a former girls’ school in Scheveningen. The building brings its own sense of structure and repetition to the works on view. Classrooms, corridors, and the residue of institutional order give this chapter a fitting setting, where routine feels embedded in the space itself.
