▲安德鲁·皮埃尔·哈特，弄空间个展: 时霎有声-广州, 现场制作
LongSpace is pleased to announce that a solo exhibition by British multi‑media artist and experimental music producer Andrew Pierre Hart will open on 25 April 2026. Hart’s practice arises from his cross‑modal understanding and perception of the flowing intersections between colour and sound, generating a state of co‑existence and resonance across multiple media. This exhibition will present a body of work created during his time living in Guangzhou, including oil paintings, installations, documentary video, experimental sound and live performance. Observation and research into specific local cultures runs through Hart’s most compelling works; this exhibition focuses on Chinese culture: particularly the influence of Lingnan culture on his practice, and foregrounds the intertextual relationships that emerge where diverse cultures meet and intersect.
On the second floor, twenty-three small-format oil paintings and a site-specific sound work are presented, tracing the fleeting impressions Hart captured while moving through Guangzhou’s many spaces. Whether broad vistas of everyday life or intimate, almost imperceptible close-up moments, the figures and objects in these paintings are lifted out of their original contexts and set against fields of solid colour. The ease of his brushwork, together with the sounds playing in the gallery, echoes the atmosphere of the short video works on the third floor, where the flowing ambient sound is woven together with the vividly fragmented scenes on screen, turning the exhibition space into a rich site for listening, sensing and participation. He hears the rustling wind above the cable cars, the bustling chatter of friends in conversation, the waterfall-like rush of pouring tea, and the rising, faintly humorous cries of pain during cupping treatments. He sees bodies leaping and dancing in fluid motion, the light and colourful presence of portable toys, and the ceaseless traffic and shifting silhouettes that animate the city streets. In this cross-modal process, he improvises a relationship between rhythm and painterly mark, allowing the myriad phenomena and sounds of Lingnan to circulate through his artistic practice and give rise to a fresh, vividly sensorial world.
On the third floor, large blue canvases further extend Hart’s experimental attempts to connect auditory impressions with visual rhythm in space, unfolding a field of intentional expression. As night settles into these blue-violet scenes, human perception is stretched and amplified within this state of stillness and calm, to the point that an imagined territory begins to emerge. Mountain rocks, commonly seen at the entrances of Lingnan residential compounds, float within the music as though staging a Brechtian epic theatre; Gong Linna’s “Tan Te” is transformed into a graphic score through sequences of bodily gestures; the flickering views when racing through the highway interchanges play out frame by frame like a strip of celluloid. Within these works, diverse sounds and materials collide through his spontaneous brushwork, reverberating within a mysterious blue-violet chromatic field. Beyond the visual, the sound of urban spaces recorded by Hart roams alongside the images, so that beneath the surface of these deep and tranquil paintings there pulses the rise and fall of Chinese shanshui, the rhythm of sound, and an ongoing dialogue of feeling. They are at once the glow of night, the tide of the sea, and a portrait of everyday life intoxicated by and immersed within this atmosphere.
▲安德鲁·皮埃尔·哈特，《Night drive G.Z.》, 布面油画, 画芯尺寸：100×160cm, ©艺术家及弄空间
象征广州街头文化的电动车，以及掼蛋桌并置于三楼空间中，花生壳堆叠桌面之上，自动发牌机不定时吐出扑克并发出一连串声响。这些日常场景邀请观众以更加亲密而积极的方式看待生活、行为、娱乐、游戏和艺术创作之间的交融。在小房间内，与此场景对应的三块竖向屏幕同时放映广州公共空间中自由而热烈的日常景象。随着哈特的镜头移动，观众穿梭于他收集到每个真实可感之瞬间的声音记忆，视觉与听觉的感知共同流散入四面八方。艺术家、观者，乃至场所本身，同声场一道周游于羊城大大小小，僻静或喧嚣之处。声音再次跨越语言与姿态，成为人与人、人与物、人与世界之间最为直观而温情的连接方式。
栖身于街头的倾听与观察中，哈特重建关于广州的表达场域，思考自身、社群甚至观众所经历的文化变迁，并邀请观众与他一道通过媒材、肢体同音律的互动和周旋，即兴奏响对于多样生活和生命经验的强音。
弄空间
2026.04.21
文|周睿
编辑|Lucy
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