Circolo UltraFiorucci and The Community are honored to present In Our Real Life, the latest solo exhibition by Jason Hendrik Hansma (b. 1988, Lahore; based in Rotterdam/Berlin). Hansma’s work dwells between language and silence, between presence and absence. Here, the gallery becomes a liminal frame: a site of unfolding rather than declaration.

At this moment of global urgency, In Our Real Life does not declaim apocalypse, but leans into a crisis rendered through poetry and resonance. The show evokes fire, ash, embers, and time as vessels for transformation — not to prophesy the end, but to open space for reflection and possibility.

The installation centers on a large-scale film installation, In Our Real Life (Embers), compiled from collected amateur wildfire footage gathered over the years, slowed, recompiled, and rendered ambient with a soundtrack by ssaliva. The series of six new wall-spanning paintings, made with Milanese master gilders, echo the flickering embers in abstraction. Red-hued light filters through the gallery, silver-leaf residue dusts the dark floor, transforming the space into a suspended threshold. Across this carefully calibrated field, Hansma invites a temporality of hope: to stop, breathe, dwell in emergence — and perhaps to feel how crisis and possibility entwine.