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.
Yixuan Nie is a rising multidisciplinary artist and fashion designer based in New York, whose work has been celebrated for its bold narrative power and innovative vision. Originally from Beijing, she draws profound inspiration from the layered textures of hutong life, infusing them with global relevance and artistic depth. She also works across styling, printmaking, and illustration.
Lynne Roberts-Goodwin (b. 1954, Sydney) is an internationally recognized artist known for her photography, sculpture, and video. Her large-scale photographic projects explore the impact of place on cultural consciousness, often focusing on remote landscapes and ecological change. Her work highlights humanity’s effect on the planet and shifting cultural heritage.
auroraerica (Erica Manenti) works at the intersection of spatial design and visual storytelling, developing environments that operate as emotional architectures, spaces not intended as neutral containers, but as vessels for psychological and perceptual states. Her practice is concerned with shaping feelings as places, where introspection becomes spatialized, and emotions acquire architectural form.
Yang-hsi Hsiao uses immersive media to graft new forms of perception onto the body. By amplifying sound frequencies, spatial rhythm, and subtle sensory cues, she explores how people encounter fear, tenderness, trauma, and acceptance. Drawing from spatial design, experimental sound, and behavioral psychology, she creates environments that invite viewers to inhabit states they often avoid otherwise.
Nebras Hoveizavi (b. Ahvaz, Iran) is an Arab-Iranian artist and educator working across experimental film, photography, installation, and poetry. Her practice engages with displacement, memory, borders, and the limits of language. Working across photography, video, and experimental media, she approaches image-making as a form of witnessing, transforming observation into a visual language.
