Ames Yavuz is pleased to present Elsewhere Held and Lingered, a group exhibition bringing together works by Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan, Amit Berman, Isaac Chong Wai, Kawayan de Guia, Emily Floyd, Tseng Chien-Ying, Rindon Johnson, Pinaree Sanpitak, and Khairulddin Wahab. Taking its title from Filipino writer Conchitina Cruz’s collection of poems, the exhibition reflects on distance, intimacy and the body as a site of memory. The title gestures toward what we carry, experiences, desires and inheritances that are held within us and continue to linger across time and place.

The exhibition draws from the book’s fragmented structure, which moves between prose, annotations, footnotes and marginalia. It brings together disparate practices that resist a single reading and looks to the margins as spaces of possibility, where overlooked histories and partial perspectives can linger, intersect and offer alternative ways of seeing.

Across the exhibition, the works gather at the margins, where personal and collective histories are held, transformed and transmitted through various forms. Elsewhere Held and Lingered invites us to recognise that what has been overlooked or obscured does not simply disappear, but continues to linger and shape the present.