In Transition

07 August - 03 September 2025
London

In Transition

07 August - 03 September 2025 · London

FEATURED ARTISTS: Elisabetta Lombardo, Jialin Yan, Fabiola Gonzales, Yiwen Hu, Diana Coda Nunziante

Hands-on is pleased to present In Transition, the final residency exhibition featuring the works of Elisabetta Lombardo, Diana Coda, Yiwen Hu, Jialin Yan, and Fabiola Gonzales.

Emerging from a shared sensibility toward material hybridity and the dissolution of boundaries, the exhibition unfolds as a constellation of gestures that negotiate presence, transformation, and form.

In Transition is a space of permeability- where function slips into fiction, and form becomes a proposition rather than a container. Drawing from sculpture, photography, installation, and painting, each artist invites us to inhabit an unsettled state of becoming. This is not merely an encounter with what is made, but with what shifts- what seeps beyond the limit of its structure and enters into a dialogue with the mutable, the relational, the inchoate.

Across their practices, the works articulate a language of transition: one that resists linearity and instead evokes a simultaneity of memory and material, interior and exterior, vision and touch. Within this environment, the medium is no longer a fixed conduit, but a receptive, active surface upon which the residual, the intuitive, and the ephemeral coalesce.

In Transition is not a passage but a condition- an attunement to the subtle and continual recalibration of form. In this collective gesture, the works resist conclusion, instead offering multiplicity as a site of agency and instability as a space of potential.


BIOGRAPHIES

Jialin Yan is a photographer based between London and Shanghai, currently pursuing an MA in Photography at the Royal College of Art. Her practice explores memory, loss, and collective emotion, using documentary and conceptual approaches to blur the boundaries between the real and imagined. Drawing on archives, everyday objects, and intimate gestures, she creates layered images that evoke absence and emotional residue. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including in New York, Rome, and Tokyo, and featured in publications including the British Journal of Photography and FT Weekend.

Yiwen Hu is a Chengdu-based artist whose practice explores abstraction as a way of engaging with the relationship between inner emotional states and the natural world. A 2023 Royal College of Art graduate in Sculpture, she works with raw canvas, water, ink, and mixed media, embracing spontaneity and impermanence through staining and layering. Her works unfold as abstract psychological landscapes, where colour, gesture, and texture reflect emotional flux and the rhythms of nature. Her work has been exhibited internationally in Shenzhen, London, and Los Angeles.

Elisabetta Lombardo is a Berlin-based ceramic artist, educator, and writer working with porcelain and stoneware to create functional and sculptural vessels. With a background in human rights law and international relations, her practice explores the relationship between material, time, and planetary consciousness. Drawing on scientific research and processes of mineral transformation, she approaches clay as a medium connecting the human body to the earth and cosmic processes. She co-founded Kleistone Studio in Berlin and has exhibited her work in Berlin and internationally.

Diana Maria Coda Nunziante is a Milan-based multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, painting, and performance. A 2025 NABA graduate, her practice explores the relationship between body, space, and material, drawing on personal experience to reflect on identity, vulnerability, and the transformation of trauma. Through performative gestures and direct engagement with found and organic materials, she gives form to emotional and psychological states, moving between fragility and resilience. Her recent exhibitions include presentations at NABA, WOLF, and the Art Mall of Milan.

Fabiola Gonzales is a Lima-based visual artist whose interdisciplinary practice spans painting, collage, photography, and installation. Drawing on personal and collective memory, she explores domestic archives, intimacy, and affect, examining how family albums and domestic imagery shape identity and preserve or conceal legacies. Her work considers the domestic space as one where affection, power, gender, tradition, and violence intersect. She has exhibited in Peru and internationally, including at CASA FUGAZ, Galería del Paseo, Ginsberg Galería, and Soon Gallery in Zurich.