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Hard Shoulder + Designing Against Vandalism

By Simona Brinkmann 2026

Installation video from Relay [02] at Platform A Gallery, Middlesborough, UK (spring 2026).

Dimensions
Hard Shoulder: 1210mm x 1910mm x 1860mm. Designing Against Vandalism: 450mm x 450mm x 1860mm.

Hard Shoulder: Steel, double mattress, magnets, hessian strap, bungee rope, strobe lights

Designing Against Vandalism: Steel shelving, magnets, steel, strobe light, cargo net, electrical cable

Hard Shoulder. Photography: Will Hughes.

Designing Against Vandalism (detail). Photography: James Clarkson.

Hard Shoulder (detail). Photography: James Clarkson.

Exhibition view, Relay [02] at Platform A Gallery, Middlesborough, UK (spring 2026). L-R: Designing Against Vandalism, Hard Shoulder. Photography: Nick Kennedy.

Designing Against Vandalism (detail). Photography: James Clarkson.

Designing Against Vandalism (detail). Photography: James Clarkson.

Hard Shoulder (detail). Photography: James Clarkson.

S B Simona Brinkmann

Cover Song

Self-Amalgam

Dissuader

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