ANTWERP.- TICK TACK presents Hard Love, a solo exhibition by British artist Hannah Perry (Chester, 1984).

Working across sculpture, sound, moving image and installation, Perry develops immersive environments in which industrial materials, bodily forms and emotional states intersect. Her practice synthesises personal histories and dreamlike fragments into installations that explore the architectures of construction, labour and intimacy.

Starting from a deeply subjective perspective, Perry interrogates themes such as gender, social background and the relationship between body and mind. The work opens onto a visual and sonic landscape that fluctuates between joy and melancholy, where shared emotional experience resonates through material form.

For Hard Love, Perry has developed a new site-specific installation that unfolds across the three floors of TICK TACK’s brutalist landmark building De Zonnewijzer (1955) by architect Léon Stynen. Responding to the building’s exposed concrete structure and transparent street-facing façade, the exhibition stages a spatial choreography of sculptural elements in steel, resin and sound, creating an environment where architecture, body and material tension converge.

Through newly developed works and architectural interventions, Hard Love investigates how industrial materials can give sculptural form to emotional labour and collective memory, reaffirming Perry’s position as one of the most urgent voices in contemporary art.

Hannah Perry has held solo exhibitions at major international institutions including BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art (2024), Julia Stoschek Foundation (2024), Chester Contemporary (2023), and Kunstverein Hamburg (2019).

Perry is among the artists selected for British Art Show 10: A Chorus of Strangers, curated by Ekow Eshun, which launches in Coventry in October 2026 before touring to Swansea, Bristol, Sheffield and Newcastle Gateshead through 2028.

Hard Love is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Belgium.

The exhibition is realised with the support of Flanders State of the Art & the Henry Moore Foundation.