K8 Hardy is a Brooklyn-based performance artist and one of the founding members of the collective LTTR, a shifting acronym that has stood for "Lesbians To The Rescue," "Listen Translate Translate Record," and "Lacan tends to Repeat," alternately embodying the urgency of the group's politics or reflecting their practice's witty semantic maneuvers. Hardy's first name is also an acronym of sorts. She devised it as a teenager—a cue from the street language of skate boarding culture and self-published zines, a cool shorthand scrawl to replace "Kate"—and the name, she says, just stuck. But it also speaks to the nature of her practice, a playful, skillful skirting of structures, like language.

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Aged wooden beams crisscross in an imposing scaffold that supports the crumbling stairwell of a seventeenth-century palazzo. Once home to the picture gallery of Naples' Caracciolo princes, the building is now part of the Fondazione Morra Greco, a project space founded by the enterprising Italian collector Maurizio Morra Greco. Artist Tue Greenfort eases his way in and out of the maze of beams carrying one of six segments from a dismountable couch. Discovered by Greenfort in one of the Fondazione's vacant apartments, the couch was used to furnish the resident artist's room and now, in its third reincarnation, is about to become part of his most recent project The Foundation.

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