ART BASEL HONG KONG

Our Galleries booth presentation includes large-scale paintings by prominent Aboriginal Australian artist Vincent Namatjira OAM, coinciding with his survey show at the National Gallery of Australia. Highlights also include Abdul Abdullah’s playful canvases that subvert the romance and kitsch aesthetic of AI-generated imagery, as well as luminous and diaristic self-portraits by notable figurative painter Alvin Ong.

We will unveil recent paintings by Karen Black, Ayka Go, and André Hemer. Madeleine Pfull and **Curtis Talwst Santiago **make their debut with the Gallery, including the latter’s startling miniature dioramas set in reclaimed jewellery boxes. Husband-and-wife artist duo Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan, Caroline Rothwell and Pinaree Sanpitak present sculptures that embody the global scope and conceptual breadth of the Ames Yavuz program. Brook Andrew completes the booth with a work from his acclaimed _Time _series, which transforms a found postcard of Aboriginal dancers from c.1900.

As part of the Kabinett sector, Ames Yavuz presents an important solo installation of works by celebrated Thai artist Pinaree Sanpitak. One of the most important female artists in Asia, Sanpitak has been critically lauded for her seamless weaving of the sacred and the profane. This presentation brings together new and historic works curated to reflect the artist’s ongoing captivation with forms of the vessel, breasts, offering bowls and Buddhist stupa. Showcasing drawings, prints and sculptures rendered in hard metals and gossamer-like mulberry paper, Sanpitak’s works offer a rich sense of being enmeshed in the subjectivities of the body, both private and public.

As part of the Encounters sector in a joint showcase, Ames Yavuz and Silverlens present White Lies, a monumental woven tapestry by Filipino artist Patricia Perez Eustaquio. The towering monochromatic textile continues Eustaquio’s ongoing series featuring historical images reworked and reinterpreted through photography and digital loom. This new work highlights the complexity of Eustaquio’s material processes as well as the conceptual entanglements of her subjects through the language of costume and dress-up, examining fraught colonial histories and their longstanding implications.

Visit us at Booth 1D43 for Galleries and Kabinett, and EN4 for Encounters.