Hands-on is pleased to present Echoes of Presence, the final residency exhibition featuring the works of Iman Sidonie-Samuels, Kenneth Greiner, Narelle Dore, and the collective Maryam Bin Bishr, Nuhaila AlHemeiri, and Salma Hani Ali.

Emerging from a shared attentiveness to material, memory, and gesture, the exhibition unfolds as a constellation of practices that explore presence, care, and relationality. Across their works, the artists foreground the overlooked-objects, spaces, or processes that carry histories, bodies, and ecosystems within them. These works reveal a commitment to attentive making, where materials are both archive and collaborator, and where meaning emerges through touch, action, and engagement.

The exhibition is a space of resonance and permeability- where domestic, urban, and natural worlds intersect, and where materials and gestures negotiate continuity, transformation, and memory. Function becomes proposition, form becomes record, and materials carry stories that are ecological, ancestral, and social.

Together, the artists’ practices articulate a shared language of attentiveness, care, and material memory. Echoes of Presence invites viewers to inhabit spaces where gesture, object, and environment converge- where the overlooked is made present, where materials speak, and where memory and action coexist in a state of continuous becoming.