Hands-on is pleased to present “Residue”, the final residency exhibition showcasing works by Ana Benavides, Jingshan Ding, Farnaz Gholami, Seongeun Lee, and Regina Thorres Thompson, curated by Senem Cagla Bilgin-Keys. Situated within a domestic space, Residue brings the works into an intimate field of dialogue. The pieces, which recontextualise the ordinary elements of domestic life, invite us to rethink boundaries, modes of belonging and the possibilities of living together. In this context, Residue refers not only to what remains, but to the traces left behind by shared experiences, encounters and lived time. As the exhibition interrogates notions of safety, familiarity and coexistence, it displaces the idea of home from a fixed place into a continuously reconfigured relational space. Residue will be on display at A Space Residence from 02 to 05 July 2026 and will continue online until 09 August 2026. RESIDUE 02 - 05 July 2026 Thursday to Sunday 11am - 6pm OPENING NIGHT Thursday 02 July 6pm - 9pm A Space Residence 237 Caledonian Road London, N1 1ED RSVP: [email protected]

Jingshan Ding is a London-based artist trained in Biology at Imperial College London and Fine Art at University of the Arts London. Her interdisciplinary background places the iteration of life at the core of her painting practice. She approaches painting not as depiction, but as a living process through which she reimagines and experiences continual transformation. Through repeated cycles of building, scraping, and reapplying paint, meticulous textures resembling fingerprints, scars, and organic surfaces gradually emerge. Her practice explores how painting can embody processes of renewal, persistence, and change. Jingshan has been shortlisted for the Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award 2025 at the National Portrait Gallery and the Winsor & Newton x Paul Smith Foundation Art Prize, and was selected for the Grand Union Gallery x Bruntwood Residency in 2025. She has exhibited internationally at Apsara Studio (Burgundy), Purist Gallery (London), Royal Watercolour Society, SUHE HAUS (Shanghai), 13B Gallery (Seoul), and BayArt (Cardiff). Website: https://jingshandingco.com Instagram: @shanshanshan

Regina Torres Thompson is a London-based Mexican artist working primarily with ceramics. Her practice explores the body as a shifting and unstable site of transformation, combining material experimentation with philosophical and conceptual research. Through sculptural forms, she investigates embodiment, hidden systems, and cosmological understandings of the body. She is currently undertaking a professional ceramics diploma at City Lit and is a resident artist at Culford Studios in London. Before turning fully to the arts and humanities, Torres Thompson completed a Bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, where she engaged with formal logic and mathematical structures that continue to shape her approach to research and problem-solving. Her long-term practice of Aṣṭāṅga Vinyāsa yoga led her to the study of classical Sanskrit and yoga traditions, informing both her MA in Textual Traditions of Yoga and Meditation at SOAS, University of London, and her current MA in Indology at the University of Hamburg. Torres Thompson has exhibited and sold work through platforms including the Margate Ceramics Market at Turner Contemporary, ST.ART Gallery, Casa Ágape, Warbling Collective Gallery, Culford Studios, and various North London Makers Markets. Alongside her artistic and academic work, she co-founded El Cuerpo del Yoga, a Latin American feminist research collective dedicated to critically exploring yoga, body politics, and decolonial thought. Website: https://reginatorresth.com Instagram: @reginatorresth.arte

Seongeun Lee is a textile artist and researcher based between London and Busan, South Korea. She holds a PhD from Pusan National University and an MA in Textiles from the Royal College of Art in London (2024), as well as both an MA and BA in Textiles and Metal Art from Pusan National University. Her research-driven practice explores the relationship between textile, sculpture, and architectural space through material experimentation and spatial investigation. Working primarily with soft sculpture, Lee approaches textile as an extended sculptural medium. Through modular knitted forms and accumulative structures, she explores how individual units assemble into adaptive spatial configurations shaped by gravity, tension, and movement. Her installations often unfold across ceilings, floors, and surrounding surfaces, inviting viewers to experience shifting perspectives and spatial relationships through the softness and flexibility of textile. Lee has presented solo exhibitions including Arrangement at PNU Arts Center in Busan (2025), Connection at Hansae Gallery (2022), and Eternal Web at PNU Arts Center (2020). Her work has been exhibited internationally at venues including the Royal College of Art and Saatchi Gallery in London, Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, Bunka Gakuen Costume Museum in Tokyo, and Three Shadows Photography Art Centre in Beijing. In 2025, she received the International Prize Artist of the Year from the Effetto Arte Foundation in Florence. Website: www.seongeunlee.co.kr Instagram: @lseunly

Farnaz Gholami is an Iranian visual artist born in Dublin and raised in Tehran. She graduated with distinction from the MFA Painting programme at the Slade School of Fine Art in 2019, and also holds a Graduate Diploma in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Arts and a Post-Baccalaureate in Studio Art from Brandeis University. Her practice explores place not as a fixed location, but as a shifting psychological and emotional state shaped by memory, displacement, and cultural forces. Drawing on her diasporic experiences of living across different countries, Gholami creates landscapes in which the natural world is interrupted by psychological and material distortions. Through fluid brushwork, playful forms, and vivid colour, her paintings channel feelings of dislocation and rootlessness while opening space to question ideas of belonging, identity, and otherness. Within these fractured environments, a fragile sense of freedom and renewal emerges. Gholami has exhibited internationally, including at Nuweland Gallery and Zona Maco Art Fair in Mexico, What If The World Gallery in South Africa, Niru Ratnam and Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix in London, as well as the Royal Academy of Arts and Saatchi Gallery. She was shortlisted for Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2019 and was a finalist for the UKNA Robert Walters Award in 2022. Website: https://www.farnaz.net Instagram: @farnaz.gholami