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 labour, class and intimacy.

Starting from a deeply subjective perspective, Perry interrogates themes such as gender, social background and the relationship between body and mind. The viewer is drawn into 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).

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

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

TICK TACK, founded in 2019, produces, presents and promotes international exhibitions and video art screenings, complemented with limited edition publications and an extensive digital archive. Housed in the brutalist complex ‘De Zonnewijzer’ (The Sundial), a 1955 key work by architect Léon Stynen, TICK TACK occupies a historic duplex at a vivid city intersection, facing the tram stop and landscape park 'De Harmonie'. The 6-meter-high window functions as an interface between artists and audience, and between private and public space.

The TICK TACK program is dual. By day, TICK TACK presents exhibitions, at sunset, the window transforms into a projection screen under the name CINEMA TICK TACK. As a result, both day and night, TICK TACK constantly challenges the physical and mental boundaries between inside and out.