May 2 – May 19, 2025
Opening: Friday, May 2 at 06:00 PM
Gallery hours: Fri, Sat 2 - 6pm

The solo exhibition of Scope BLN resident Nimrod Astarhan traces relationships between earth and media, mining and meaning. Through an exploration of the material origins of digital technologies and electric power, the artist ponders the common ground of technological determinism and extractivist practices. The show proposes implements that embrace cyclicality, sustainability and ecological symbiosis as core principles. 

Residual Current explores how energy, matter, and memory persist beneath the surface of our technologies - haunting, shaping, and connecting us to deep histories of the colonization and technologization of the Earth. It proposes a patient, contemplative experience of alternative possibilities for computational media.

Artist made copper solar panels and sun harvesting circuits channel sunlight into slow, lowtech digital images in the Project Space. Copper-point plotter drawings locate the origin stories of digital materiality in mines and land. In the Cinema Room, the mine glimmers with the quiet residue of past and present resource extraction.

Residual Current is the subtle energy that remains after the main flow has passed - a hidden pulse, a trace, a memory that endures in the wires, in the earth, and in us.

This show invites viewers to sense those unseen currents: the afterlives of minerals and media, the echoes of extraction, and the persistent, entangled energies that shape our digital world.

- Boris Kostadinov