Sourced from personal accounts, online and academic research, Amateur Āyurveda explores Lekamge's familial and cultural history with Āyurvedic practice – a medicinal practice founded in the Indian subcontinent.

The installation centres around treatments that remedied a family member's shoulder calcification and other ailments. This involved the use of a lime and salt bath to aid with foot swelling and kizhi treatment (herbal powders wrapped with muslin and tied in a bolus) in order to ease pain in the shoulder.

The videos mimic the warm and dimly≠lit images of international Āyurveda Medical Centre brochures. Various research avenues demonstrate the challenges of accessing information about Āyurvedic practice from a non-Western lens in Aotearoa. Focusing on herbal and plant-based remedies over chemical ones, these practices are regularly approached with scepticism due to the introduction of Western medicine and the exoticisation of Eastern cultures. From the perspective of a Sri Lankan diaspora, Lekamge uses performance as a form of personal research to explore how these treatments healed previous generations of her family.

Amateur Āyurveda onsite until 8 September.