This May, The Future Perfect is honored to present The Hardware Diaries, a new body of work by celebrated lighting designer and artist Lindsey Adelman. Marking her first exhibition with the gallery in over a decade, The Hardware Diaries introduces a striking new chapter in Adelman’s practice—an intimate exploration of form, tension, and transformation.

Comprising over a dozen illuminated sculptures alongside fifteen works on paper, this collection transforms the parlor level of The Future Perfect’s New York gallery into a sensorial diary rendered in glass, metal, and light. Each piece serves as a page in an evolving, nonverbal journal—one that channels deeply personal expressions of self, memory, and subconscious desire.

Adelman delves into the unseen systems that shape our inner and outer worlds, sculpting sensual, oozing glass forms constrained by snaking hooks, heavy chains, and hand-forged restraints. These elements invoke both pleasure and pain, constraint and release—mirroring the duality of the human condition. Throughout the collection, tension becomes a vital force, animating each work with visceral energy and vulnerability.

By reimagining familiar motifs from her practice, Adelman offers a powerful meditation on the body, the psyche, and the unspoken narratives that dwell beneath the surface. The Hardware Diaries celebrates her intuitive, process-driven approach—one that resists categorization and embraces the mystery of creation.

For Adelman, both hardware and diary are essential: structures and stories that cannot exist without one another. In this union, beauty is not only seen, but deeply felt.