Hard Play Opening Reception

We’re delighted to invite you to the opening of “Hard Play,” a dialogue between sculptures by Amanda Atria and a performance-activated installation and sculptural paintings by the artist duo Hyoju Cheon and Yixuan Wu. This exhibition brings together sculptural practices that treat the object as a site of psychological and social projection rather than stable function. Across these works, sculpture operates through anthropomorphic suggestion rather than representation. Play appears here less as leisure than as a system of repetition and discipline: learning through touch, memory through gesture, resilience through rehearsal. Care is approached with similar complexity — not as sentiment, but as labor, repair, and the management of fragility. The domestic becomes a political space, where design, gender, and bodily experience are continuously organized and contested. Performance at 7:00 pm.