Make Hauser & Wirth's summer exhibition in London, '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, 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.

Celia Pym explores damage and repair, working with garments that belong to individuals as well as items in museum archives, revealing her extensive experience with the spectrum and stories of damage. For Pym, the process of repairing a treasured garment is a form of nurturing. Time and memory are embodied in a person's clothing and Pym's visible acts of care and mending preserve and memorialize lives and relationships.

Amy Revier's broad practice considers how textiles can serve as a form of nourishment; binding, wrapping and holding us all in a secure state from birth to death, through the everyday and ceremonial moments. Woven garments and complex structures act as protective shelters, a form of architecture that houses the body, our minds and our innermost selves.

Donna Lynch (Studio Ashay) creates wearable and sculptural works, intricately layered, pleated and appliqued. Understanding the relationship between shape and the movement of cloth and thread, her pieces suggest a fluidity and confidence of line. Lynch's two-dimensional fabric studies reveal a process of deconstruction and reconstruction, an unpicking of a tailored formal approach towards raw and organic explorations.

Press release courtesy Hauser & Wirth.