'A moment for eternity' Hauser & Wirth, London

Opening 19 - 21 March at Hauser & Wirth London: ‘a moment for eternity’, curated by Jacqueline ReddyMoore

In a presentation by Make at Hauser & Wirth London, and curated by Jacqueline Moore, a collective of established artist-makers showcase works that embody a narrative of time and space, nature and human connection. Their expressive responses to material and making explore the ritualistic, a theme that also resonates with the work of the artist Takesada Matsutani. Through repetition and gesture, the artist makers transform the physical properties of their materials into new forms.

With each action—stitch by stitch, the click of the camera shutter, a chisel’s mark or drop of liquid clay— mind, body and matter converge. Each artist maker possesses a distinctive visual language: Akiko Hirai’s ceramic moon jars are characterized by metamorphosis, revealing the expressive, animistic spirit of clay and with their powdered ashen finish raise questions of mortality and permanence. Richard McVetis materializes time in stitch, mapping his reflections on the interconnectedness of life and the cosmos.

With wood as his medium, furniture maker Craig Bamford (SASA Works) balances rawness and refinement, imperfection and precision through material exploration, crafting stories of elemental energy and human connection. Rosa Nguyen draws on botanical matter to produce porcelain vessels, as well as ceramic and glass works presented as a wall tableaux, addressing ideas of memory, expiration and temporality. Exploring the apparent flux and stasis of nature, Jonty Sale magnifies the natural world in enigmatic photographic images which play with perception and scale. There is a profound and universal beauty in the fusion between the physical act of making and human intention, with the work of each artist inseparable from their inner lives and minds. Surveying the works in the exhibition, viewers’ senses become alert, held simultaneously in the embrace of the suspended moment and life’s flow—the convergence of permanence and impermanence—in ‘a moment for eternity.’