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.
Doug Winter is a semi-sighted North American conceptual photographic artist and filmmaker whose artworks focus on the preoccupation of light and non-figurative forms. Doug's non-representational photographs of conventional objects and their environments are derived from the human body's resilience to adapt and accommodate a physical disability and emotional trauma.
Ruonan Shen is a visual artist and photographer based in London. Her work engages with gender expression and transformation, focusing on China’s emerging drag scene as a lens through which to question the boundaries of beauty, strength, and self-presentation. Shen creates highly staged environments that balance intimacy and control, presence and absence.
Wei Wangkai is a Chinese photographer and artist whose practice moves between documentary observation, psychological inquiry, and personal narrative. Working across road-trip photography, landscape, portraiture, and diaristic image-making, Wei often focuses on the fragile relationship between people and the environments they pass through. His latest series is American Vacation.
