Exhibit A
A group exhibition exploring materiality; at Hauser and Wirth's Stockwell House.
Exhibit A is an exhibition of musings, embryonic ideas and suggestions. The works on display are evidence of creative process; clues to a broader ongoing investigation. In an age of instant AI production and online consumption, both the processes and the physicality of art can be lost. Exhibit A champions the journey of artmaking and the love of its physical manifestation. Some works are made through an intuitive or visceral engagement with materials, others are logically or conceptually derived, extrapolating meaning from materials or the meanings of material. There is perhaps a contradiction in these works being both part of a process yet also finished works in their own right. Art is, however, good at such ambiguities.
The artists of Exhibit A came together in September 2026 from a range of backgrounds; from painting and sculpture to fashion design and poetry. Some with previous art training, others with no prior experience. Each came with a blank slate to create something new. Over the subsequent 12 weeks, the artists explored notions of materiality within their practice; engaging in dialogues with materials and support to each other.
