Malfunction and Other Insignificant Disturbances
PAUL EACHUS
13 December 2025 - 15 January 2026

Open by appointment: nooshin.farhid@gmail.com

Preview : Friday 12 December 6-9 PM

This is the first solo exhibition of Paul Eachus in ten years, and the unveiling of his final installation, made in 2015 and unseen since his death. After a decade in storage, it returns with the quiet knowledge that it was once destined to be shown before being cast off.

The installation stands like a building site held between construction and ruin. Wooden bars brace panels that lean and strain, as though the entire structure had been pressed into timber and left undecided. Provisional, fragile, and charged, it occupies the uneasy ground where building and unbuilding take place at the same time.

Inside this unsettled architecture, domestic remnants sit beside posters of Ulrike Meinhof, Rudi Dutschke, Guy Debord, and Andreas Baader, their faces drifting between memory and interruption. Three monitors pulse with their own disjointed rhythms: Palestinian women halted at a border checkpoint by Israeli soldiers; a CCTV screen trembling beneath waves of static; and sheets of food advertising flyers rolled tight and swung like a weapon against an unseen something. These signals hover in the gap between communication and failure.

Across the structure, marks and joins drift like broken sentences. Colours slip. Light falters. Objects misfire. Letters repeat across the timber like the remnants of a diagram, the trace of a system that once claimed order, now only a residue in the cadence of a gesture.

Malfunction and Other Insignificant Disturbances holds itself in a suspended state between assembly and failure. It is a building site where thought becomes material, where structure becomes porous, slipping at its edges, pushing against the point at which it can no longer hold.