IN TRANSITION

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.

Elisabetta Lombardo reimagines the vessel as a threshold between softness and structure, intimacy and defence. Interweaving ceramic and metal, her forms question the boundary between cage and shield, unsettling function and inviting reflection on adaptation and shifting relations.

Jialin Yan traces the afterlife of the photographic image, transposing its flat temporality onto sculptural presence. Her works enact a departure from the fixed frame, allowing memory to drift, settle, and reassemble itself across material surfaces. What remains is a luminous residue- quiet, unsettled, and expansive.

Diana Coda embeds the body within the sculptural field, not as subject but as origin. Her luminous casts animate the tension between fragility and assertion, inviting reflection on the body’s capacity to hold, to release, to transform. Matter becomes gesture; light becomes breath.

Yiwen Hu translates the emotional intensity of Abstract Expressionism into a fluid spatial language. Through soft fabrics, shifting light, and chromatic permeability, her installations stage an environment in flux- where sensation, form, and movement coalesce in a state of continual becoming.

Fabiola Gonzales retrieves memory through tactile means, reimagining the painted surface as an archive of intimacy. Layered with textile fragments and inherited imagery, her works unravel the domestic scene as both threshold and echo- an ever-repeating choreography of presence and absence.

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.