Davide Hjort Di Fabio’s sculptures emerge through processes of casting, repetition, and material transformation. Often beginning with fragments of his own body, the works move away from direct representation and become unfamiliar forms that sit between the bodily and the architectural, the intimate and the constructed. Rather than presenting the body as fixed or complete, his practice explores it as something in constant transition – shaped through memory, sensation, and its surroundings.

In "Sleepwalker" (2026), a glazed stoneware form originating from a cast of the artist’s torso rests on stacked perforated ceiling panels sourced from hospital interiors. Through processes of reshaping and transformation, the body becomes abstracted into a dense yet soft form that appears held, compressed, or slowly changing shape. The support structure introduces an architectural language associated with care, waiting, and institutional space, while the sculpture resists clear identification. Together, the elements create a tension between vulnerability and containment, where the body appears less as an image than as a shifting condition.