In‑Passing, is the solo exhibition by Australian-Italian photographer Lisa Sorgini, presenting nearly a decade of emotionally charged images that trace both a deeply personal and universally resonant journey along the currents of motherhood, loss, and transformation – in Sorgini’s distinct painterly style.

Beginning in 2015, In‑Passing unfolds through a dual passage: becoming a mother while losing one. Sorgini not only documents the physical space of the home but also the psychological landscape of a woman in flux. Through tender, observational frames of domestic stillness, care, exhaustion, and tenderness, she elevates fleeting gestures – a milk scattered table, children’s shadow play, a gaze caught mid-thought -into quietly profound visual narratives.

What began as a way to anchor herself through image-making gradually unfolded into a layered visual commentary. Photography became a form of quiet witnessing, therapeutic, yes, but also purposeful. The work is steeped in the transformation brought on by matrescence: the psychological and physical shifts that occur in becoming a mother. Like adolescence, it is a liminal state in which the self dissolves and reconfigures.

While grounded in domestic life, In Passing moves beyond the documentary. It is as emotional as it is observational, a visceral record of life at home, filled with the chaos and intimacy of early childhood. Yet at its heart lies something less tangible: an inquiry into the unspoken emotional terrain of motherhood. Grief, wonder, exhaustion, and love linger at the edges of memory and consciousness, felt more than seen. The work seeks to trace that elusive presence, the invisible forces that shape and reshape the self through caregiving, loss, and deep connection.