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.
Ningxin Zhang is a composer and intermedia artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her practice integrates sonic art, audiovisual interaction, and computational media, with a focus on algorithmic structures, real-time systems, and responsive environments. Her work spans installation, performance, and interactive media.
Chan Alvarez is a visual artist, art critic, and independent curator. Alvarez’s visual practice examines how identity, self-consciousness, and perception are shaped -and reshaped- across temporal and contextual conditions. Working across diverse media, his projects focus on the philosophical discourse between theoretical constructs and the phenomenological experience.
Masaaki Hasegawa’s practice explores the intersections of body, perception, language, and technology through lived experience. His practice functions as both ritual and inquiry, an attempt to access veiled mental states and to document ephemeral conditions that evade fixed meaning. Through large-scale installations, performance, and text-based works, he confronts societal norms and discomfort.
Raquel Sanchez is a multidisciplinary artist and poet based in Jerusalem. With a diverse upbringing, her artistic journey spans decades of study in painting, ceramics, sculpture, and design, both formally and informally. In her visual work, Sanchez explores light, reflection, nature, and biblical symbolism to evoke spiritual dimensions of human experience.
