Make Hauser & Wirth in London

Hauser & Wirth London
​17 August – 16 September 2023

Strange Friends
​Featuring Alice Walton, James Shaw, Nicola Tassie, Jochen Holz, Marianne Huotari, Julia Obermaier, Jinya Zhao

‘Strange Friends’ brings together a collective of artist-makers exploring new conceptual narratives through mixed material disciplines including glass, clay and stone. Across large scale installations and still life compositions, the exhibition considers the way in which we interact with objects and how they in turn occupy space. Employing visual and tactile stimulation, the works question how we encounter the complexity and possibility of colour and our sensory response to textural and surface finish.

Anchored by form and process, a rich and varied vocabulary of material interpretation emerges from each work. Playful and experimental investigations of functional forms and objects question familiar archetypes, reimagining notions of use and the everyday. A common thread remains throughout; a sculptural ambiguity and sense of curiosity, testifying to the dynamic breadth of contemporary material-led practice.

Connect. Reveal. Conceal
​Featuring Amy Revier, Celia Pym, Donna Lynch (Studio Ashay)

‘Connect. Reveal. Conceal’ presents distinct explorations in material practice and thinking of three artists. Through an expanded study of textiles, each communicates a culturally familiar visual language, moving fluidly between the everyday and the imagined, suggestion and intent, the sense and memory of touch. The meeting of the maker’s hand with the instinctive and skilled application of process and technique, elicits works imbued with meaning and metaphor. The exhibition is an invitation for visitors to consider the symbolic importance and agency of textiles together with the tacit knowledge that unites hand, eye and mind with the body and lived experience.

Press Contact
​Alice Haguenauer, Hauser & Wirth London, alicehaguenauer@hauserwirth.com, +44 7880 421823