IN TRANSITION
07.08 - 03.09.2025
Elisabetta Lombardo, Diana Coda Nunziante, Jialin Yan, Yiwen Hu, Fabiola Gonzales
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.
Elisabetta Lombardo
Shield no.1, 2025
Porcelain, wire, oxide wash. Hand-built, fired to 1240 °C oxidation
12.5 x 11 cm
Elisabetta Lombardo
Cage, 2025
Porcelain, wire, oxide wash. Hand-built, fired to 1240 °C oxidation
19 x 7 cm
Elisabetta Lombardo
Shield no.2, 2025
Porcelain, wire. Hand-built, fired to 1240 °C oxidation
12.5 x 11 cm
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.
Jialin Yan
Window, 2025
A fleeting memory of summer days, where the window breathes and cicadas sing.
80 x 43 cm
Jialin Yan
Staircase, 2025
Plastic Beads, fishing line
Variable Dimensions
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.
Diana Coda Nunziante
Hugs ’n Kisses, 2025
Cotton fabric scrap, textile pigments, resin, plexiglass, aluminium, lightbulbs, electric cable
54 x 47 x 14 cm
Diana Coda Nunziante
Torso, 2025
Cotton fabric scrap, textile pigments, resin, plexiglass, aluminium, lightbulbs, electric cable
95 x 48 x 20 cm
Diana Coda Nunziante
Wear Me On Your Sleeve, 2025
Cotton fabric scrap, textile pigments, resin, plexiglass, aluminium, lightbulbs, electric cable
44 x 25 x 18 cm
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.
Yiwen Hu, Ephemeral Untouchable Moments, 2025, Acrylic on raw canvas, 60 x 96 x 3.7 cm
Yiwen Hu, Burning in the Depths, 2025, Acrylic on raw canvas, 108 x 75 cm
Yiwen Hu
Folds of Consciousness, 2025
Painted Fabric, hanging wires
210 x 200 x 280 cm
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.
Fabiola Gonzales
Room, 2025
Mixed technique on canvas
170 x 80 cm
Fabiola Gonzales
Dancing in circles, 2025
Mixed technique on canvas
80 x 240 cm
Fabiola Gonzales
Ephemeral Untouchable Moments, 2025
Acrylic on raw canvas
60 x 96 x 3.7cm
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.