• Installation view of Common Wealth, Ames Yavuz, Sydney, Commonwealth Street, 2024. Photographed by Dean Qiulin Li
  • Installation view of Common Wealth, Ames Yavuz, Sydney, Commonwealth Street, 2024. Photographed by Dean Qiulin Li
  • Installation view of Common Wealth, Ames Yavuz, Sydney, Commonwealth Street, 2024. Photographed by Dean Qiulin Li
  • Installation view of Common Wealth, Ames Yavuz, Sydney, Commonwealth Street, 2024. Photographed by Dean Qiulin Li
  • Installation view of Common Wealth, Ames Yavuz, Sydney, Commonwealth Street, 2024. Photographed by Dean Qiulin Li
  • Installation view of Common Wealth, Ames Yavuz, Sydney, Commonwealth Street, 2024. Photographed by Dean Qiulin Li
  • Brook Andrew, Sexy and Dangerous, 1996, digital image printed on DuraClear and mounted on acrylic, 145 x 95 cm, final edition in an edition of 10 + 2AP
  • Abdul Abdullah, Legacy Assets, 2022, oil on linen, 200 x 1000 cm
  • Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan, Commonwealth: Project Another Country, 2019, handcrafted metal tin cans, dimensions variable
  • Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan, Commonwealth: Project Another Country, 2019, handcrafted metal tin cans, dimensions variable
  • Fiona Foley, Let a hundred flowers bloom, 2010, mixed media: 3 opium pipes, stool, packing case, sketch book, 36 brass opium poppy sculptures, and 34 photographs on inkjet print, dimensions variable
  • Fiona Foley, Let a hundred flowers bloom, 2010, mixed media: 3 opium pipes, stool, packing case, sketch book, 36 brass opium poppy sculptures, and 34 photographs on inkjet print, dimensions variable
  • Pierre Mukeba, A Garden of Roses, 2021, mixed media on fabric, 262 x 548 cm
  • Pierre Mukeba, Justice, Paix, Travail, 2021, mixed media on fabric, 263 x 544 cm
  • Vincent Namatjira, Elizabeth on Country, 2021, acrylic on linen, 76 x 295 cm (five panels)
EXHIBITION

Abdul Abdullah, Brook Andrew, Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan, Fiona Foley, Guido Maestri, Pierre Mukeba, Vincent Namatjira OAM

Common Wealth

20 July – 24 August

Ames Yavuz is pleased to present Common Wealth, a curated group exhibition that examines vocabularies of ownership and power. The artists help us deconstruct the fictions of a ‘common wealth’, offering alternative origin stories and new futures for the myths of nationhood. The exhibition spotlights iconic works that offer irreverent juxtapositions, pointed questions and moving stories of survival and reclamation.  

The exhibition includes works by Abdul Abdullah (b.1986, Australia), Brook Andrew (b.1970, Wiradjuri and Ngunnawal/Australia), Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan (b.1965 and 1962, Philippines), Fiona Foley (b.1964, Badtjala/Australia), Guido Maestri (b.1974, Australia) Pierre Mukeba (b.1995, Democratic Republic of the Congo) and Vincent Namatjira OAM (b.1983, Western Aranda/Australia).