Chiara’s work pulls two dimensions into three, opening the space between line and object, surface and volume, physics and poetics. Motion and gravity are the lenses that help her peer into the specter of time and reveal forces that shape perception but often escape visibility.
Her current research explores radio, fishing, and electromagnetic energy, treating transmission and casting out as both medium and metaphor. Waves – the lines that tether us invisibly – point to a world structured by forces that cannot be seen.
She uses industrial and everyday materials, the unseen skeletons of engineered space, decontextualized to distill inherent physical qualities: weight, tension, balance, suspension.
Hardy works with the tension between physics and poetics, the measurable and the mystical. Her sculptures attempt to reconcile these seemingly contradictory modes of knowing, proposing that the material and immaterial are not separate realms but intertwined conditions of experience and perception. Growing up between Bali and New York, geographically and linguistically in-between, she has been formed through her experiences of difference.
Suspended between earth and sky, Hardy’s works invite the viewer to crane their necks upwards towards the great in-between.
Email: Chiara@chiarahardy.com
Instagram: @chiarahardy