Lohrasb Bayat (b. 1990, Tehran, Iran) is a self-taught artist based in Tehran. His practice delves into the dynamics of power, uncertainty, and resilience within socio-political and psychological landscapes. Working primarily with painting, Bayat explores the tension between vulnerability and defiance, often through figures caught in ambiguous or constrained situations.
Yulin Peng is the curator and director of Galerie de Nuage, a contemporary art gallery and cultural platform operating between New York and Hong Kong. A licensed architect with a Master of Architecture from Columbia University, her practice spans curation, design, and economic research. Her work bridges the creative and the quantitative, contributing to broader questions of how culture is shaped.
Svetlana Bakhareva is a visionary visual artist and performer, that lives and works in Barcelona. Key directions in her practice include embodied experience, the perception of environment as a living space, and engagement with the more-than-human. These vectors are unified through an exploration of experiences that extend beyond purely material perception.
ChingKe Lin is a bamboo artist rooted in material philosophy, expanding the contemporary possibilities of bamboo. Rather than reproducing traditional craft, he approaches bamboo as an explorer, studying its tension and resilience to seek a deeper bond between nature and human experience. His work grows from the essence of the material, turning bamboo weaving into a fluid spatial language.
Zhi-Jiang Shan is an interior designer known for his cross-cultural design sensibility and poetic spatial expression. He often draws inspiration from classical Chinese landscapes, local craftsmanship, and symbolic spatial rituals, transforming them into immersive environments that resonate with modern life. His projects are not only functional but emotionally engaging.
Ziggy Yang is a Chinese installation and new media artist based in New York. His practice explores the complex dialogue between human emotions, cultural conditioning, and technology, positioning technology as both an interactive medium and a conceptual framework. Yang employs mechanical systems, programmable physical computing, artificial intelligence, and synthetic materials.
Cizzoe Yi Wang (b. 2000, China) is an interdisciplinary artist who grew up in the UK. She is working across installation, performance, sculpture, and documentary filmmaking. Conceptually driven and informed by her background in social anthropology, her practice explores human interaction as a structured game governed by societal rules.
Joana Pereira da Costa is a performance-based multidisciplinary artist whose work unfolds at the intersection of body, memory, and resistance. Drawing upon lived experience, feminist philosophy, and poetic inquiry, her practice engages performance as both method and metaphor, a space where the self is simultaneously deconstructed and reassembled.
Blanca de la Cruz is an artistic photographer and author of the book Reinventing Oneself in the Face of Adversity. Her work is born from stillness, driven by the need to transform pain into beauty. She explores themes such as vulnerability, resilience, identity, and the creativity woven into everyday life. Her images speak of transformation and the beauty that resides within human vulnerability.
