A curation by Raffaella Nobili, Owner and curator at Paraventi Giapponesi - Hotels and inns share the impermanence of time spent within them. Spaces designed to welcome but not to hold, they reflect the condition of those who pass through them: fleeting presences, suspended between intimacy and movement. In these works, which combine photography, painting, collage, and digital printing, every room, every corridor, every facade becomes a fragment of life slipping away. Some hotels appear sumptuous, others are suburban motels or isolated buildings in unlikely locations: yet they all speak of the same precariousness of life. Sometimes the gaze arises from within, from an unmade bed or a window open to the city; other times it comes from the lobby or the street, where the building, with its neon signs or its tired monumentality, reveals its ephemeral nature. From Francis Meslet's ruined salons to Jean-Marie Gitard's artificial lights, from Joachim Bergauer's sinuous yet faceless bodies to Pappay's cheerful collages, and even the suspended visions of Petra Kaindel and Catharina Dethlefs Hoffmann, the hotel reveals itself as a mirror of humanity on the move: a place of encounter and oblivion of shifting identities.