Cin Cin! A Toast to Living
November 13 – 23, 2025
Flowing Space Gallery
Maryangela Sanchez Rocca, Soobin Jeon, Belle Zhao, Chang Liu, Nina Yankovic, Iz Nettere, Lilly Nguyen, Moyan Wang (Iris)
Flowing Space is pleased to announce, Cin Cin! A Toast to Living, a group exhibition as part of the Flowing Art Prize & Fair program supporting emerging artists working at the intersection of art, design, and daily living.
Showcasing tablewares, drinkwares, and home-living artworks, the exhibition explores the role of objects within contemporary life. The artists engage with ideas of objects and environments through functional design, use of materials, and object-based practice. The works reflect how objects participate in lived experience, shaping routines, mediating gatherings, and contributing to the architecture of home.
Cin Cin! A Toast to Living highlights the significance of these interactions and considers how the objects can influence the ways we inhabit space, connect with one another, and construct the rituals of daily life.
Notes for an Evening at Home
1.
Place a glass on the table.
Observe how it holds
light, absence,
and everything between.
2.
Let the things around you
perform their function.
Let the function blur
until it becomes a feeling.
3.
Consider the distance
between two objects.
[Two feet]
It is also the distance
between two people.
4.
Introduce a gesture:
a hand passing water,
a hand receiving it.
This is the first form of architecture.
5.
Let the room breathe.
Let the objects speak
in the grammar of surfaces.
Cin Cin! A toast to living!
a study in proximity,
a practice of staying,
a ritual of living with things
until the living changes shape.
Showcasing tablewares, drinkwares, and home-living artworks, the exhibition explores the role of objects within contemporary life. The artists engage with ideas of objects and environments through functional design, use of materials, and object-based practice. The works reflect how objects participate in lived experience, shaping routines, mediating gatherings, and contributing to the architecture of home.
Cin Cin! A Toast to Living highlights the significance of these interactions and considers how the objects can influence the ways we inhabit space, connect with one another, and construct the rituals of daily life.
Notes for an Evening at Home
1.
Place a glass on the table.
Observe how it holds
light, absence,
and everything between.
2.
Let the things around you
perform their function.
Let the function blur
until it becomes a feeling.
3.
Consider the distance
between two objects.
[Two feet]
It is also the distance
between two people.
4.
Introduce a gesture:
a hand passing water,
a hand receiving it.
This is the first form of architecture.
5.
Let the room breathe.
Let the objects speak
in the grammar of surfaces.
Cin Cin! A toast to living!
a study in proximity,
a practice of staying,
a ritual of living with things
until the living changes shape.