• Inhabited: Memory and Projection in Contemporary Space

Artists
Slown — Yann Jaime Braun — Hualing Xu

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

Through photography and painting, the artists examine how these ordinary environments become charged, affective territories — formed through perception, memory, and projection.

Slown’s photographs focus on familiar interiors — kitchens, bedrooms, and domestic spaces — captured in artificial light and saturated colour. These seemingly mundane scenes take on an uncanny, cinematic quality. The everyday appears both intimate and subtly estranged, suspended within a quiet and ambiguous atmosphere.

In Yann Jaime Braun’s paintings, human figures inhabit contemporary architectural settings. Windows, corridors, and open rooms become frameworks for attentive observations of ordinary gestures and everyday situations. Architecture assumes a central role: it structures the presence of the body and shapes the relationship between the individual and their environment.

Hualing Xu’s painted landscapes open the exhibition onto natural spaces. Solitary figures move through environments where water, light, and colour generate atmospheres that are at once tranquil and enigmatic. Here, landscape emerges as a site of inner projection — suspended between memory, contemplation, and imagination.

Together, these works trace 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 shape our ways of perceiving, experiencing, and inhabiting reality.