Yutaka Kikutake Gallery is pleased to invite two UK-based artists for a series of projects including a residency in Tokyo, an exhibition, and a lecture at Tokyo University of the Arts. The title of this exhibition, “Tides,” symbolises the sensibility that the two artists share through their work.  

Just as Matsuzaki regards the scenery that appears before him as the result of the environment and its multiple factors, Hardy also perceives the city as that which is like the sea. Within this landscape, the tide ebbs and flows every day, whirlpools emerge, and things that have been discarded wash ashore from time to time. A dialogue between the two exhibiting artists and curator Akiko Miki will be held at Tokyo University of the Arts, focusing on the varying perspectives and approaches to space between different cultures. 

Works presented by Anne Hardy 

Accumulator May 2023 

Made in situ in Tokyo during a two-week residency directly before the exhibition Hardy used found materials gathered from various parts of the city, recycling sites, second-hand shops and flea markets, including river sand deposited out of place by a recent typhoon. Combined with this are cast pewter objects (including beans, acorns, stones) and lights controlled by a custom-built computer system that that processes weather data observed locally in Tokyo. In recent years, Hardy has focused on incorporating urban data into her work. These blinking lights, programmed in correspondence to invisible information such as the weather and the flow of people, visualize the state of the city and its unconscious aspects, instilling the space with emotion. 

found materials, river sand and grass from typhoon flooding, jewellery, cast pewter, light, custom-designed computer system for light source that responds to Tokyo’s meteorological data, and visor. 

approximate dimensions 250cm x 180cm x 100cm 

2023 

Relic 

found materials. 

2023 

Desert Rain 

Desert Rain is composed of field recordings made by Anne Hardy during her residency at the Chinati Foundation USA in 2022–the sound of a rare snowfall melting from the roof of her apartment, bugs sounding alarm during an earthquake, and the rain like illusion of cottonwood trees moving in the wind–and forms an acoustic envelope for the other works in the exhibition. 

stereo audio, duration 11:31 mins looped 

custom speaker stands, genelec 8030 speakers, mac mini 

2023