Nicolas Shake: Ecstatic Membrane

Nicolas Shake’s work engages with the material and temporal traces left by language and objects, often exploring the weathering effects of time and the environment. His practice embraces a hybrid of painting and photographic processes, capturing the gradual transformation of surfaces exposed to the elements. We are now presenting an exhibition focused on Shake’s Polaroids of the Los Angeles and Southern California landscape. These images extend his interest in decay and material history, offering intimate, instant-film studies of the region’s shifting light, architecture, and cultural remnants.