The Harder You Look is a temporary art institute that takes inspiration from and follows the procedures of scientific research as a tool for thinking and producing collaboratively. Students and specialists meet in London to discuss the specificity of perception in its relation to contemporary artworks.
What are the parameters that come into play when looking at a work of art? What does instigate or affect its reading? How and when does the work reveal itself? What does its context or history bring? What about its location or its position as part of a collection? What is it that we have in front of our eyes and what happens when we look harder?
The Harder You Look focuses on the various aspects of the context that generates a work and traces its relation back to the viewer.