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INTERVIEW | Varvara Sosedova

INTERVIEW | Varvara Sosedova

Varvara Sosedova is a Russian artist, based in Kaliningrad, Russia. Varia Stern’s practice is the result of an interdisciplinary exploration of historical and contemporary phenomena. Using ancient oriental philosophical practices, she explores the human connection to the world, exposing historical and cultural parallels in history. She uses the techniques of symbolism and creates the interpenetration of different cultures by mashing them up.

INTERVIEW | Alejandro Áboli

INTERVIEW | Alejandro Áboli

Alejandro Áboli is an award-winning filmmaker and photographer and The RedLine is his debut as an artist. Combining reality with fiction, Áboli reduces images to their simplest forms to capture the delicate relationship between real and imaginary worlds. The Redline photos catch the viewer’s eye using a contemporary theme and creating a comfortable ambiguity between reality and fantasy and spiced with a touch of humor.

INTERVIEW | Marcel Schwittlick

INTERVIEW | Marcel Schwittlick

Marcel Schwittlick is an artist based in Berlin, Germany. With his work, he is examining the cybernetic aspects of generative systems and modern technology. He is interested in digital culture, its influence on society, and chances for alternative types of communication. He is working in strong connection to various practices, forging a relationship between physical and digital media, traditional and modern approaches.

INTERVIEW | BACCA - Benjamin Baccarani

INTERVIEW | BACCA - Benjamin Baccarani

Also known as Bacca, Benjamin Baccarani is a French artist. Bacca's work is a junction between photography and contemporary painting. He strives to transcend the materiality of photographs to make them more performative for the viewer. He works essentially with traditional photography and collage. He feels the need to salvage the images he captures as well as the ones he finds on billboards, subway ads, and old magazines.

INTERVIEW | Kyle Yip

INTERVIEW | Kyle Yip

Kyle Yip is a Canadian, JUNO Award-Nominated hypersurrealist artist internationally recognized for his highly accurate creations of original visual art, electronic music, and films from his dreams. Yip's paintings are highly accurate creations from an ongoing series envisioned during recurring REM dreams of the artist. The series explores the Gestalt and spirit of art vicariously through Yip's dreams.

INTERVIEW | Elinor Shapiro

INTERVIEW | Elinor Shapiro

Elinor' Shapiro, an American artist from Los Angeles who works on top of the large canvas and mixed media pieces. The figures in Elinor Shapiro's work are raw and disconnected. The combined mediums give her the ability to render them with detail and disintegrate them with a line. As a code, there are words and phrases layered into the paint.