5 - 20 April
Ames Yavuz (formerly Yavuz Gallery), making its UK debut, will draw two pairs of artists together in dialogue about corporeality. The first of these, Holding Ceremony, will feature Brook Andrew and Pinaree Sanpitak, who explore the body as both a vessel for memory and a ceremonial site. The second, POV, will showcase works by Alvin Ong and Julia Trybala, each mining the question of how we inhabit our bodies and the search for intimacy in the self.
Holding Ceremony will be showcasing Brook Andrew (b. 1970, Wiradjuri and Ngunnawal/Australia) and Pinaree Sanpitak (b. 1961, Thailand). Bringing together two of the most important artists working in the Global South today, Andrew and Sanpitak both explore the body as a vessel for memory and as a site for ceremony.
For POV, Ong presents paintings that capture the quiet desires of solitude and queer longing, transforming the everyday into a site of dream-like spectacle. As the artist notes, “my paintings function as windows and mirrors, they reflect something of myself but also of the world we live in”. Trybala centres her work on the complexity and dynamics of human relationships, drawing inspiration from personal experiences, relationships and conversations with friends and family. Maintaining an astute dialogue with art history, questioning how feminine bodies have been represented, its tropes, and how these bodies occupy physical space in the art canon and the world. Together, Ong and Trybala explore how we inhabit our bodies and how we search for intimacy in the enigmatic and transformative corners of the self.