K8 Hardy: 'Positions'
8 Oct 2026 - 18:00-20:00 | Printed Matter, New York
Join us for a launch event and conversation with multimedia artist K8 Hardy, on occasion of her new book Positions. K8 Hardy will discuss the project, which draws on Position Series (2007–12) to explore identity as performance and construction.
In her Position Series, Hardy used herself, her sister, and mannequins, styled in eclectic clothes, wigs, and makeup, to suggest personas outside normative categorisations of identity and gender expression, in tension with the ordinary domestic or urban spaces in which they are pictured. In the darkroom, Hardy superimposed bows, glasses, bras, and the spectral outlines of bodies over these portraits: analogue interventions that expose the photograph as a deliberate construction rather than fixed truth. Positions presents all fifty photographs from the cult series plus additional unseen images, cataloguing Hardy’s pathbreaking body of work in the context of the DIY fashion, art, and thrift scenes in queer subcultures of early 2000s New York.
Date and time
8 Oct 2026 , 18:00-20:00
