Analogue

Hypha HQ, Unit 3, Euston Tower, 286 Euston Road, NW1 3DP

PV: Thursday, 26th February 2026, 6 – 9pm
Open: 27th February – 7th March 2026, 12 – 6pm

Digital systems dominate our lives with a logic that thrives on precision, quantification and the elimination of ambiguity. In this context, the analogue could be regarded as simply a nostalgic opposite but choosing analogue as a means of expression is more incisive than a longing nod to the past. The analogue is also a mode of resistance and through it we can find the gaps that the digital can never fill.This exhibition explores the analogue as a relational, elastic, and metaphorical space.

Some exhibited artists foreground hands-on engagement with materials such as clay, textile, glass, or cardboard. Here, making is visible and each medium is exploited for its intrinsic properties – clay’s pliability and sensitivity to heat, or cardboard’s rigidity and its application in model making, for example. Practices grounded in haptic processes such as plaster casting, embroidery, carving, or trompe l’oeil painting, underscore the role of time and labour. They are knowing rejoinders to the disembodied and apparent ease of digitally produced imagery and virtual experience.

Other artists draw on subject matter rooted in lived experience – Alexis Zelda Stevens’ plaster cast of keys lost down the back of a sofa and Louise Wan’s mechanical shoeshine – alluding to and transforming a familiar sensation into a metaphor. Then there are artists interested in what the digital struggles to compute, like uncertainty and nuance – Ewelina Skowronska spreads dye across a silk surface, for instance, seemingly guided by intuition. Indeed, many works champion the analogue as a way of knowing shaped by experience and care.

The artists presented here propose the analogue not as a refuge from the digital, but as a mirror to its limitations. Ambiguity, embodied making, and sustained attention may be our most valuable forms of knowledge.

Sarah Elson, Curator

Pauline Batista
Claudia Barreira
Michael Coppelov
Spike Dennis
Stathis Dimitriadis
Srabani Ghosh
Neil Groom
Liz Harrington

Nicky Hirst
Libby Hoffenberg
jota
Susan Ker-Seymer
Helen Kincaid
William Lowry
Sanna Namin
Jennifer Nieuwland

Alexis Over-Papatzaneteas
Lisa Pettibone
Kirsi Pirhonen
Owen Planchart
Anusha Ramchand
Zara Ramsay
Lenka Rayn H.
Vivien Carolyn Reinert