British artist Anne Hardy presents a suite of floor-based installations and assemblage sculptures titled "Interloper" at Visual. The exhibition features a series of "Beings"—twisted, life-size humanoid entities constructed from rusted wire, crushed cans, soil, and the artist’s own cast body parts and clothing. These figures, often posed in yoga-like positions or meditative stances, appear as hollow, faceless outlines that blend a sense of vitality with physical disintegration.
The work serves as a haunting critique of contemporary "wellbeing" culture and the arduous rituals of self-care. By using unstable materials like crumbling topsoil and discarded detritus to form these avatars, Hardy explores the tension between the desire for self-improvement and the reality of internal emptiness. The exhibition continues Hardy's career-long investigation into creating "rigorously detailed enigmas," moving from her known photographic fictions into immersive, three-dimensional sculptural narratives.