Anne Hardy,'Two Joined Fields' (interior view), (2013). Courtesy of the artist and Maureen Paley, London. Photo: Anne Hardy & Angus Mill.
‘TWIN FIELDS’ is Anne Hardy’s first exhibition in Scotland and her most ambitious project to date.
The exhibition takes the whole gallery as a landscape, within which are two large ‘twinned’ sculptural structures. Hardy describes these as attempts to make “illusions that you can enter”. These identical volumes reveal their making but not, at first, their contents. Filled with an accumulation of materials and sounds, the sculptural structures create images through a language of component parts.
Anne Hardy 'TWIN FIELDS' (detail) (2015), audio (7 minutes 24 seconds), timber, light, breeze blocks, cast concrete, carpet, fan, chain, metal rebar, air, rubber. Installation view, The Common Guild. Courtesy of the artist and Maureen Paley, London. Photo: by Anne Hardy and Angus Mill.
Hardy is interested in what she describes as “the kind of space that is just there, next to you, and you don’t see it”.
In a practice that spans photography, sculptural installation and audio, Hardy constructs environments that hover between depiction and abstraction. Staging our encounters with these spaces through careful composition of physical and audio landscapes and precisely controlled perspectives, she immerses us in spaces that are at once functional and illusory.
This multi-part exhibition offers a total environment enveloping the viewer, suggesting images, associations and relationships, both actual and imagined.
Further Info
Declan Long, ‘Anne Hardy’, Artforum, November 2015.
Moira Jeffrey and Duncan Macmillan, ‘ The Best Art Exhibitions of 2015', The Scotsman, December 2015.
Documents
Supported by
The Elephant Trust
Maureen Paley, London
Project Details
‘TWIN FIELDS’ was presented at The Common Guild in 2015. A publication 'TWIN FIELDS / FIELD / Fieldworks' / designed by Hardy with Åbäke accompanies the exhibition.
Read the Commentary by Sally O’Reilly –
Read the Commentary by Dr. Dominic Paterson –
The publication is designed by the artist in collaboration with Åbäke and features an essay by Lisa Le Feuvre.
Engagement –
‘In the Shadow of the Hand', Glasgow based artists Virginia Hutchison and Sarah Forrest led a series of workshops relating to ‘Twin Fields’.
