Issue09

INTERVIEW | Zhou Song

INTERVIEW | Zhou Song

Zhou Song is a Chinese artist, famous for his hyper-realistic oil paintings. His recent work explores the shifting political and social landscapes of urbanized societies developed according to principles of technological advancement. Imagining a dystopian future, Song’s latest series probes human realities shaped by technology as much as nature.

INTERVIEW | Evgeniia Kazarezova

INTERVIEW | Evgeniia Kazarezova

Evgeniia Kazarezova is a ceramic designer based in Bratislava, Slovakia. She primarily works with clay as with one of the ancient and natural materials humans worked with. The combination of traditional techniques and modern technologies allows Evgeniia to achieve unobvious results during the design process.

INTERVIEW | Andreea Vasile-Hoxha

INTERVIEW | Andreea Vasile-Hoxha

Andreea is an award-winning architectural & landscape architectural designer and researcher. "After Plastics: The Gardens of the Glacial Foreland" is a transitional landscape – from glacial to post-glacial. The project questions the potential emergence of microplastic particles in the most pristine places on Earth over the next two centuries and the imminent implications on landscape systems and their formation.

INTERVIEW | Clemens Gritl

INTERVIEW | Clemens Gritl

Clemens Gritl is a German artist based in Berlin. His work focuses on the interaction between space, dimension, monotony and materiality of urban megastructures. His black and white photorealistic presentations can be aligned with 1960s architecture photography which documents a singular, unbroken optimism and the radical zeitgeist of its era.

INTERVIEW | Noah Spivak

INTERVIEW | Noah Spivak

Noah Spivak is a Canadian artist, currently based in Melbourne, Australia. His fascination with the human senses, the ambiguity of everyday life, and the space in which the art experience occurs culminate in a body of work exploring how we experience visual art and the subconscious decisions we make leading up to this moment.

INTERVIEW | Chenglin Xue

INTERVIEW | Chenglin Xue

Chenglin Xue’s work uses Arduino, processing, Maxmsp, and other interactive software in synergy with photography, video, printmaking, and other media. His work explores the nature of video and objective reality, focusing on the relationship between people and nature, attempting to harness interactive media to explore an invisible reality.

INTERVIEW | Sebastian Mueller-Soppart

INTERVIEW | Sebastian Mueller-Soppart

Sebastian Mueller-Soppart is a former advertising executive and creative director. His work has an intentional criticism towards the impact we, as humans, have on the planet, our generation's out-of-control consumerism, and the shared concern of how effective recycling really is.

INTERVIEW | Rebecca Weisman

INTERVIEW | Rebecca Weisman

Rebecca Weisman is a conceptually driven maker and thinker who makes deconstructed films of sculptures that are then re-embedded into the sculptures creating dreamy installations with layers upon layers of visual narrative and meaning. Her project Skin Ego centers on an immense, eight by twenty foot sculptural reconstruction of a section of a Finback whale, modeled after a photograph found on the internet of a real-life stranded whale.

INTERVIEW | Alejandro Áboli

INTERVIEW | Alejandro Áboli

Alejandro Áboli is an award-winning filmmaker and photographer and The RedLine is his debut as an artist. Combining reality with fiction, Áboli reduces images to their simplest forms to capture the delicate relationship between real and imaginary worlds. The Redline photos catch the viewer’s eye using a contemporary theme and creating a comfortable ambiguity between reality and fantasy and spiced with a touch of humor.

INTERVIEW | Marcel Schwittlick

INTERVIEW | Marcel Schwittlick

Marcel Schwittlick is an artist based in Berlin, Germany. With his work, he is examining the cybernetic aspects of generative systems and modern technology. He is interested in digital culture, its influence on society, and chances for alternative types of communication. He is working in strong connection to various practices, forging a relationship between physical and digital media, traditional and modern approaches.

INTERVIEW | BACCA - Benjamin Baccarani

INTERVIEW | BACCA - Benjamin Baccarani

Also known as Bacca, Benjamin Baccarani is a French artist. Bacca's work is a junction between photography and contemporary painting. He strives to transcend the materiality of photographs to make them more performative for the viewer. He works essentially with traditional photography and collage. He feels the need to salvage the images he captures as well as the ones he finds on billboards, subway ads, and old magazines.

INTERVIEW | Kyle Yip

INTERVIEW | Kyle Yip

Kyle Yip is a Canadian, JUNO Award-Nominated hypersurrealist artist internationally recognized for his highly accurate creations of original visual art, electronic music, and films from his dreams. Yip's paintings are highly accurate creations from an ongoing series envisioned during recurring REM dreams of the artist. The series explores the Gestalt and spirit of art vicariously through Yip's dreams.

INTERVIEW | Sotiria Bramou

INTERVIEW | Sotiria Bramou

Sotiria Bramou works as a Visual Designer in the city of Athens. She moves and experiments by blurring the lines between visual & wearable art. Sotiria's work deconstructs the dominant social stereotypes and expresses her own values as a worker, as a female, as a designer. She gets inspired by the "abnormal", the "dirty", the "freak", and the "obscene".

INTERVIEW | Nae Zerka

INTERVIEW | Nae Zerka

As a traveler of the analog-digital synthesis, the visual artist Nae Zerka never stops exploring. Nae's inspiration comes from digitalization, along with graphic design and music. Himself he produced electronic music and became a techno DJ in legendary clubs. His work blends the design element with technology, graphic design with a painterly finish.