K8 Hardy: 'Positions'
20 Oct 2026 - 16:00 | RCA Battersea, London
Join us for a public lecture and Q&A with artist, K8 Hardy. This lecture is organised by the RCA MA Photography programme and MACK, an independent publisher of award-winning books on contemporary art, critical theory, film and architecture.
As a multimedia artist, K8 Hardy uses photography in her Position Series (2007–12) to explore identity as performance and construction. 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.
Date and time
20 Oct 2026 , 16:00
Location
Gorvy Lecture Theatre (First Floor, Dyson Building)
RCA Battersea Campus
Riverside, 1 Hester Road
London SW11 4AY
United Kingdom
