Hana Metwally
Rituals of No Fixed Shape

Exhibition opening Sunday 27.06 / 17:00 Ivan Vazov 18th Street / Veliko Turnovo

Welcome to the exhibition, titled Rituals of No Fixed Shape, by Hana Metwally. The exhibition contains new paintings made during her stay at the ARV.International artist residency in Vishovgrad.

Hana Metwally's paintings emerge through rhizomatic leaps. Bestowed upon dissolution, they remain primordial at heart.

Drawing from experiences that traverse systems of belief, ritual practice, and rhythmic presence, Metwally approaches painting as a site of transformation rather than representation. The works resist resolution, yet are presented as frozen moments in time. Forms surface to dissolve again into colour, gesture, and movement, occupying a space where certainty loosens and contradictions become generative. What unfolds is not a composition, but a condition: things becoming without agreeing to become one thing, carried along lines that never stabilise into direction. Saints unfolding their inner logic, swarms of alchemic gum, and chromatic brawlers parenting white as a plateau of becoming. - Lars Nordby

(The entire exhibition text will be available on the opening night)

Hana Metwally is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist and performer working between Australia and Japan. Over the past year, she has undertaken intensive training with ceramic masters in rural Japan while choreographing duet contemporary performances within Tokyo’s underground arts scene. Spanning ceramics, sculpture, painting, sound, and movement, her practice explores transformation, the pursuit of mastery, limitation, and mysticism as forces that shape personal and cultural evolution. Drawing inspiration from her surroundings and chance encounters, Metwally creates work that embraces process, uncertainty, and continual becoming. Her work has previously been exhibited at The Changing Room (2024) in Naarm and GASBON Metabolism (2025) in Japan.

Many thanks to Tequila Bar Fnky Mnky for serving free drinks at the exhibition opening.