The Eight Foundation and Ahāra present our second collaborative exhibition — an invitation to explore the delicate dance between gestures and utterances, where each piece reflects a profound engagement with words, experiences, poetry, repetition, movement and the very act of making.

When gestures and utterances are seen as processes based on a text/textile axis — the two nodes of an axis that, etymologically linked through the Latin texere (to weave), reflect an intimacy and complexity in their association with making. It is Victoria Mitchell’s ‘textility’ of making that suggests a practice that informs thought. The common associations between text and textile, between utterances and gestures, are what allow for this exhibition’s attempt at rendering limiting words limitless, an exercise in weaving from the fraying edges of language itself.