Ames Yavuz with curator Mikala Tai is delighted to announce a mentorship programme, allowing emerging arts workers to expand their curatorial practice. Our inaugural project in this programme sees Mikala Tai mentor Yuna Lee, an emerging curator, producer and writer based on Gadigal and Wangal land: currently working at Arts & Cultural Exchange.

Ames Yavuz is pleased to present Infinite Gesture, curated by Mikala Tai and Yuna Lee, with works by Tarik Ahlip, Skye Bakhos, Ali Kazim, Marcos Kueh, Altynai Osmo, and Jenny Jia Li van Ratingen.

Infinite Gesture brings together six artists, each continuing distinct and storied artistic, material or philosophical tradition. For some, the act of making is a direct continuation of family lineage: they have watched and learned from elders who worked with the same materials and gestures they employ today.

Across the works, tradition is not a static archive but a living process. Oral histories, material knowledge and embodied gestures become ways of seeing and inhabiting the world anew. At the same time, these artists reveal history and tradition as mutable and subject to negotiation, loss and reinterpretation. In a world saturated by algorithmic excess, this return to the gesture of the hand rejects our insatiable appetite for novelty in favour of the verifiable real.

The artists of Infinite Gesture share a deep reverence for life that has been shaped by inherited knowledge, philosophies and traditions. The act of making can be read as a form of monumentalising our material and immaterial relations to land, people and place. Together, the works in the exhibition evoke the infinite gestures that precede and exceed us, tracing the seen and unseen lineages through which identities, histories and worlds are brought into being.