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.
Can Cui, originally from Beijing and currently based in New York, is known for her sculptural silhouettes and thoughtful explorations of material. Her work combines technical precision with conceptual depth, often engaging with themes of identity, transformation, and emotional texture. Can continues to challenge conventional structures and explore the expressive possibilities of fashion.
Based in London, Chinese artist Yuying Li translates ancient Eastern philosophies into contemporary visual narratives. Her work, which often features monoprint, ink wash, and mixed media, explores the "concretisation" of a spiritual home. She converges elements of the human body, nature, and deep space to blur the lines between them, echoing the Taoist ideal of "human and nature in one."
Kuan-Yu Chou is a Taiwanese visual artist currently based in London. Focusing on body memories and inner experiences, her work invites viewers into a silent, tangible visual realm that intertwines body, emotion, and dreams. Through paintings, photographs, and installations, she creates a space where the viewer can reflect on vulnerability, suffering, and survival.
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.
Joana Pereira da Costa is a performance-based multidisciplinary artist whose work unfolds at the intersection of body, memory, and resistance. Drawing upon lived experience, feminist philosophy, and poetic inquiry, her practice engages performance as both method and metaphor, a space where the self is simultaneously deconstructed and reassembled.
Lili Shen is a London-based artist working at the intersection of interaction design, data visualisation, and embodied experience. Her practice centres on the body, both physical and emotional, as shaped by technology. Exploring themes of sleep, digital tracking, and exercise in immersive environments, Shen transforms physiological data into visual and sonic narratives.
Ailyn Lee is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York. Working with hand-sculpted stone clay, found objects, and drawings on canvas, she creates dreamlike scenes that explore memory, femininity, and transformation. Her creative process often begins with automatic drawings or fragments of dreams, allowing subconscious imagery to surface organically.
Zhuyang Liu is a trans-media artist whose practice spans sound, performance, film, moving images, writing, and installation. Their work interrogates identity, labour, technocracy, and the body through immersive, often surreal narratives. Zhuyang’s hybrid works challenge perception, collapsing reality and fiction into multisensory experiences that question how we live, relate, and imagine.
Halim Madi is a programmer, poet, and modern-day storyteller born in Beirut, Lebanon, who now lives and works across San Francisco, Beirut, and Paris. Halim explores migrant, queer, and cyborg consciousnesses, weaving new understandings from the collisions of disparate worldscapes. Their work collects and performs stories of border-crossing bodies that unlock the imagination of new futures.
Lili Xie engages with the realms of photography, video, performance, and ceramics in her artistic practice. The evolution of her work is an ongoing journey of self-exploration, inquiry, and the deconstruction of her own identity. Through these diverse mediums, she navigates the complex landscape of personal introspection and transformation.
Chu Ling-Jung & Tang Zi-Xian are both Taiwanese artists. They are both based in Taipei, where they live and work. Their collaborative project, Clearing the Text, describes the dyslexic patient's intense desire to comprehend text, the despair of being unable to read, and the attempt to regain the ability to read by integrating their body into the text through various methods.
What does it mean to exist in a body? How does the body witness personal and collective histories, political struggles, and evolving identities? Embodied Realities, a hybrid collective exhibition curated by Dr. Pamela Chrabieh at Kulturnest and in the metaverse, showcases the work of emerging, mid-way, and established artists, each bringing their unique perspective to the theme of the body.
Yeejae Kim is an artist whose interdisciplinary work spans performance, sculpture, video, and installation, using vulnerability to challenge the expectations and ideals imposed by beauty standards. Born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, she draws from her cultural background and personal experiences to engage with societal norms. She is currently based in Long Island City, NY.
Pei-Yao Chang is a Taiwan-born media artist and researcher currently working between London and Taiwan. Her practice explores space(s) and the implications of embodied experiences, drawing from both the gravitational pull of the land and the weightless journey of freediving. Fascinated by sensation, movement, and perception, she investigates the concept of embodied cognition.
Chu Ling-Jung, born in Taiwan in 2000, is an artist focused on feminism and consciousness. Her works often explore the unease in women's body shaping and gender perception under a patriarchal society and present these themes through deliberate bodily transformations. Chu Ling-Jung 's creative forms are diverse, including performance art, video, and found objects.
Ada Yueting Wu is an interdisciplinary artist born in China and currently based in the United States. Through installation, performance, and sound, she creates visceral experiences that critically examine the production of silence and truth within systems of control. By subjecting the body to counter forces or exposing it as a malfunctioning circuit within various systems, she scrutinizes relationships of powers and disciplines.
Susan Sitko is a Polish multidisciplinary artist currently working in Brighton, UK. Her photography series Sensitive Flesh and The Vessel have been recognized for the poetic exploration of moments where humanity merges with the natural world. In both projects, she includes many tactile elements that result in images with a unique sensory quality.
Qi Zhuang (1999, China) is an interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and animator based in London, United Kingdom. Her project 未知晓 Unknown is a semi-improvised live performance created with costumes as a starting point, combining visual art, dance, music, installation and performing art. The concept of the work comes from a conversation with a monk.
Maya Smira is a multidisciplinary artist using video, photography, dance, performance & installation. She explores global and interpersonal issues and is interested in land changes, geographic, social and psychological processes. As a traveling artist, the physical space allows her to express new aspects of herself, while also talking about questions in society and the environment.
Song Rao is a Chinese visual artist living in Brooklyn, New York. He works in different art forms, including photography, installations, illustrations, and short videos. He uses composition and graphics to clone multiple selves, captured humorous scenes that also express profound meaning, social injustice, racism, queerness, and more from his life in NYC. His photos each show a different pose and meticulous expression.
