Ames Yavuz presents Shifting Grounds, an exhibition featuring works by five Filipino contemporary artists—Kristoffer Ardena, Clarence Chun, Jonas Eslao, Is Jumalon and MM Yu. The artists reflect abstraction as a dynamic field of tensions; between intuition and structure, depth and surface, personal memory and collective history.

With abstraction no longer confined to formalist purity or expressive gesture, it is now perceived as a fluid and adaptive language—a mode of inquiry as much as aesthetics. Across diverse processes, the artists in the exhibition engage in an ongoing dialogue with materiality.

Collectively, Shifting Grounds presents how abstraction continues to evolve as a responsive and reflective practice.  Each gesture, surface, and texture gives way to transformation—affirming abstraction’s relevance and how it is deeply grounded in lived experience.