Hardy Hill

Now it’s dark and there’s somebody in it

Opening 16th May 2024

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CASSIUS&Co. presents Now it’s dark and there’s somebody in it, an exhibition of new works by Hardy Hill, opening on Thursday 16th May 2024. This will be the artist’s first solo presentation in London.

Now it’s dark and there’s somebody in it is an exhibition that will disturb you. The virtuosity of the artist’s draughtsmanship and the physical beauty of his figures are devices used to make the images more repellent, more abject, more debased and sordid and sinful. Neither emotion, nor humanity, nor pleasure will be found here, and as a viewer you will leave feeling implicated, even guilty.

Why come? Why look at such things? Because who is honestly piqued any more by pictures of people having sex? Who is really piqued by anything? Hill’s ability to disturb, his mastery of the uncanny, has produced a set of works that might be among the very last images that make you feel anything at all.

Hardy Hill (b. 1993) studied printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design and early Christian theology at the Union Theological Seminary in New York. He has presented solo exhibitions at Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles, 15 Orient, New York, and Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt. He lives and works in New York.