Inhabiting the Real

Domestic interiors, architectures and contemporary landscapes

Artists
Slown — Yann Jaime Braun — Hualing Xu

The exhibition Inhabiting the Real brings together the works of Slown, Yann Jaime Braun and Hualing Xu around an exploration of the spaces that shape our everyday experience of the world: the domestic interior, architecture and the landscape.

Through photography and painting, the artists question how these ordinary places become sensitive territories, shaped by perception, memory and imagination.

Slown’s photographs focus on familiar interiors — kitchens, bedrooms and domestic spaces — captured through artificial lighting and saturated colors. These seemingly ordinary scenes acquire a strange, almost cinematic quality. The everyday appears both familiar and subtly displaced, suspended in a quiet and ambiguous atmosphere.

In the paintings of Yann Jaime Braun, human figures appear within contemporary architectural spaces. Windows, corridors and open rooms become frames through which ordinary gestures and everyday situations unfold. Architecture plays a central role, organizing the presence of bodies and shaping the relationship between the individual and their environment.

The landscapes painted by Hualing Xu open the exhibition toward natural environments. Her solitary figures inhabit spaces where water, light and color create atmospheres that are both serene and enigmatic. Here, the landscape emerges less as a direct representation of reality than as a space of inner projection, memory and contemplation.

Together, these works form a journey through different ways of inhabiting the world. From the intimacy of domestic interiors to contemporary architectural spaces and expansive landscapes, the exhibition explores how images participate in shaping the way we perceive — and inhabit — reality.