Wang Boyuan is an artist based in London and China who explores absurdity and fantasy through printmaking, moving images, drawing, etc. Wang Boyuan’s works employ imagination and humor to reflect and rethink identity, sexuality, social constraints, and underlying ideologies. His current work is a series of drawings that serve as self-portraits exploring my possibilities, desires, and emotions.
Renowned for their versatility and innovative use of mixed media, Chen Yang specializes in digital media art, moving images, as well as painting and sculpture installations. Their creative practice is characterized by a multidisciplinary approach, through which they investigate and articulate the nuanced dialogues between human societies and their habitats.
Xinyu Zhang, also known as DayDay, is a contemporary artist originally from Wuhan, Hubei, China, and currently based in New York. Drawing inspiration from daily observations, existential reflections, and a relentless curiosity to explore diverse materials, Xinyu's art is distinguished by minimalist lines and symbols, continually seeking a delicate balance between design principles and fine art.
Delphine Cuelenaere is driven by curiosity in both subject and method. The technique of woodcarving gives her the opportunity to be surprised by the material. Open-minded departures from the unknown and a radical openness to not knowing what will come are the essence of her artistic process. Slowly and unpredictably, scenes emerge in which voyeur and protagonist, spectator and artist, intertwine.
Jiangshengyu Nova Pan is a moving image and installation artist, currently based in Baltimore (USA). work focuses on human mobility. Working from the perspective of the individual, Pan’s work explores the profound transformations of space, power relations, and social networks faced by a mobile population through sculptures and videos, appropriating everyday life scenes based on her semi-fictional writings.
Rodrigo de Toledo is a Brazilian-American multidisciplinary visual artist, graphic designer, and a tenured animation professor at Northern Arizona University. Inspired by ancient mythological archetypes, de Toledo’s work is a fictional mythology with its visual iconography. Employing a primitive pop-surreal graphic style, he investigates questions of identity and spirituality, as well as the media’s effect on personal memory and fantasy.
Latifah A Stranack is an Anglo-Omani artist based in London. Her work is about female empowerment, identity, sisterhood, and intuition. She creates her compositions using archival imagery, historical art references, fashion magazines, and photos of her body or people she knows. Mythology, current affairs, and history also thread their way through her work.
Joy Yue Zhuo is a Shanghai-based object designer. She designs furniture and objects to express her utopian fantasy to the audience. She hopes users can imagine the fantasy through the interaction with her furniture and objects. While people are interacting or observing her works, they will become part of the fantasy. Joy Zhuo’s works are the NPCs (nonplayer characters) of a game she created herself called Utopian Fantasy.
