Against Capture is a group exhibition investigating the materiality and dramaturgy of images. Through drawing, sculpture, sound and moving-image, we are inducted into alternative ways of seeing that disrupt the seamless logic of photography. The works in the show explicate the ontology of images and the capacity of material to act as witness, navigating the captive realities of surveillance, incarceration and capitalist extraction. They invoke fugitivity and intimacy as tactics against capture.
As part of Against Capture, a temporary darkroom has been installed in the space. EMBASSY is running a series of free workshops alongside the exhibition, including sessions on printing with sustainable materials, contact printing, a reading group and a writing workshop. More information can be found on our website.
Rosalind Duguid is an artist and writer based in London. She is interested in how we live amongst the photographs we create, and the material cost of images’ production of emotions. She graduated from a BA at Newcastle University and is currently studying at the Royal Academy Schools.
Rik Higashikawa is a multidisciplinary artist who works across experimental moving image, text and site-specific collaborative interventions. Moving between the language of these media they aim to generate surprising moments of interplay between different forms of meaning-making, often misusing and misinterpreting a media’s tools or protocols. In this way, errors, solecisms and the element of surprise are central motivators in their practice. Rik’s work situates itself in the unstable and shifting divide between the empirical and the poetic.
Annabel Moodie is a mixed-media filmmaker based in Scotland whose work explores human relationships with plants and the non-human world as a form of everyday resistance to structural violence. Working primarily with DIY 16mm processes, she examines where rational and magical thought collide, seeking to reveal alternative ways of knowing. Her background in anthropology informs her research-driven practice. She has participated in residencies with Alchemy Film and Moving Image, Casa do Xisto, and Baltic Analog Lab. In 2023, the Scottish Documentary Institute commissioned her film Friends on the Outside, which received a Scottish BAFTA nomination.
Kate Paul is an artist and writer based in Glasgow. Her work with text, audio, facilitation, and performance has been exhibited with NoBounds Radio, Radio Buena Vista, Fieldnotes, Presse Books, NTS Radio, Hot Potato Magazine, Phytology, Ruskin School of Art, South London Gallery, Market Gallery, the ICA, and Conditions Studio Programme. She makes collaborative writing and performance events with noï neneh and Roya Zahra Shadmand, for which they have been awarded the Passaporta Jacques de Decker Prize for 2026. Her recent solo exhibition at Listen Gallery in Glasgow was called Whatever is Called the World (38 min 28 sec), and concerned rescue, dependency, decorative vernaculars, and live performance.