Collectors Art Book Vol.3.1

INTERVIEW | Anna Skoromnaya

INTERVIEW | Anna Skoromnaya

Anna Skoromnaya is an artist who lives and works in Genoa, Italy. She works predominantly with installations and media based on moving images, such as videos, holograms and computer- and software-generated figures. Skoromnaya’s artistic practice incorporates both sophisticated, innovative media and intentionally contaminated materials, with a language that focuses on and magnifies the paradoxes present in our society.

INTERVIEW | Yu Pan

INTERVIEW | Yu Pan

Yu Pan is a visual communicator and multidisciplinary artist who works with a range of design instruments and media. Buddhist culture is where it all began for Yu Pan, who grew up in a Buddhist household. In his work, he employs methods including, but not limited to, graphic design, sound design, moving images, and performance art to influence the viewer and immerse them in scenarios they may have never been exposed to before.

INTERVIEW | Rubén González Escudero

INTERVIEW | Rubén González Escudero

Rubén González Escudero was born in Madrid in 1979, and based in Berlin since 2007. His work revolves around the concept of environment from a very broad approach, which would include not only the physical aspect but also the cultural and even technological aspects. It examines the complexity of urban spaces, social and cultural structures, and how they interact with each other.

INTERVIEW | Ryan Tesluk

INTERVIEW | Ryan Tesluk

Ryan Tesluk is an Oakland and LA-based interdisciplinary artist and storyteller. Ryan Tesluk's art provides viewers with honest, unadulterated content that triggers a plethora of emotions. While many individuals may be uncomfortable with what they see, the fact that some may feel such discomfort when looking at his paintings means Tesluk is doing something right.

INTERVIEW | Meiqi Zhang

INTERVIEW | Meiqi Zhang

Meiqi Zhang is an interdisciplinary artist, and her journey into this unique field has been a thrilling exploration of the intersection of science and art. Her passion for technology and creativity led her to this path. As an artist, she creates a wide range of artistic works that often revolve around living organisms and post-nature concepts. Her studio serves as the epicenter of her creative endeavors, where she brings her imaginative visions to life.

INTERVIEW | Amber Xu

INTERVIEW | Amber Xu

Amber Xu, an award-winning Motion Designer, Art Director, and Illustrator based in the SF Bay Area, boasts a diverse background in user experience, advertising, branding, and journalism. With a portfolio that spans multiple creative disciplines, Amber's work is celebrated for its unique blend of storytelling and captivating visuals. As an industry trailblazer, she continues to inspire and innovate, leaving an indelible mark on the world of design.

INTERVIEW | Rymma Vinogradova

INTERVIEW | Rymma Vinogradova

Rymma Vinogradova is a Ukrainian contemporary artist working in the style of figurative art based in Basel, Switzerland. In her artistic practice, Rymma explores how the cultural heritage is being transformed by current trends of human development, how it changes into new forms and reveals itself in new ways of contemporary conditions. Art, for her, is a path and a way to be heard.

INTERVIEW | Hee Jung Han

INTERVIEW | Hee Jung Han

Hee Jung Han is a visual artist living and working in South Korea. Her newest series, “Landscape of Pli,” is a process of exploring the ‘multiplicity’ inherent in humans living in the hyper-connected era where truth and lies, real and fake, are mixed. This this ever-changing landscape reminds her that the truth she knows or understands can be meaningless.

INTERVIEW | Chun Han

INTERVIEW | Chun Han

Chun Han is a photographer and creative director based in New York. Chun has been creating works focus on Asian women's social dilemmas, photographing Asian women and women's bodies, especially her self-portraits. Her other studio and video work were largely impacted by her theatre background by staging contrasting colors and theatrical effects in the images.

INTERVIEW | Kwabena Ofori-Darkwa

INTERVIEW | Kwabena Ofori-Darkwa

Kwabena Ofori-Darkwa is a self-taught Ghanaian photographer whose work is based on concepts focusing on nature and its relation and significance to humanity as part of a personal quest to seek a deeper understanding of various aspects of life as has been found as well as to build on the continuous rise of African contemporary photography to add different nuances and perspectives in subsequent conversations.

INTERVIEW | Wenhui Jiang (Untitled-egg)

INTERVIEW | Wenhui Jiang (Untitled-egg)

Wenhui Jiang (Untitled-egg) s a visual artist and graphic designer who works with multi-disciplinary subjects and media. As a queer, she always has a radical perspective on observing and experiencing the world. Strong satire is characteristic of her work. In her practice, she takes herself as the object of observation and uses her work as a tool to research the context of the era and society behind the individual.

INTERVIEW | Agnieszka Stopyra

INTERVIEW | Agnieszka Stopyra

Agnieszka Stopyra (born in 1988) is an illustrator and graphic designer. In her fashion illustrations, she combines an expressive use of lines and subtle patches of colour, and in her graphic designs, she uses collage and combines it with surrealism and pop art, which she absolutely loves. The main theme in both these spheres is a woman with a whole spectrum of emotions, anxieties, inspirations, and her own micro-worlds.

INTERVIEW | Natalia Ludmila

INTERVIEW | Natalia Ludmila

Natalia Ludmila was born in Mexico City and grew up in Toronto, Canada. She is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice shifts between painting, drawing, video, and sound. It can be defined as studio-based research that points to the political—questioning forms of representation and the construction of false or biased narratives in the context of conflict.

INTERVIEW | Eugene Ofori Agyei

INTERVIEW | Eugene Ofori Agyei

Eugene Ofori Agyei (1993) is a ceramic sculptor, fiber, and installation artist, and an educator originally from Ghana living in Gainesville, Florida. Agyei creates sculptures and installations that incorporate African batik fabrics, yarn, ceramics, and everyday objects filled with personal and cultural meaning to explore cultural identity, belonging, displacement, memories, and place.

INTERVIEW | Yu Chin Tseng

INTERVIEW | Yu Chin Tseng

Born in Taiwan, Asia, Tseng Yu-Chin began his creative career as an experimental filmmaker and now works mainly with video and photography and mixed media installations, living with his partner in Amsterdam and Berlin. His work is based on the human body and the subjective mind, using the body to discuss self-existence, identity, politics, society, and contemporary values.

INTERVIEW | Yixuan Wu

INTERVIEW | Yixuan Wu

Yixuan Wu is a visual artist, which currently lives and works in New York. Her sculptural arrangements address the subtle gestures that endow the objects of sensual qualities, the incongruous systems, and the uncanny. By weaving personal narratives into multiple cultural references, Yixuan's practice delves into fragmented memories through layered intricacies

INTERVIEW | Jiaxin Jiang

INTERVIEW | Jiaxin Jiang

In the past nine years, Jiang Jiaxin's works have been exploring the documentation and expressiveness of art, revolving around the representation of the narrative and the surreal nature of art. Both relying on images and videos for creation, his works are inseparable from his research on photography in the context of art. In terms of theme, he is interested in self-identity and cultural perception.

INTERVIEW | Danni Zheng

INTERVIEW | Danni Zheng

Danni Zheng is a new media artist with a spatial design background, currently based in London. Her work often explored the relationship between physical and virtual space by investigating the status quo and speculating the future in a digital way, such as through 3D animation, immersive experiences, live performances, and creative coding. She aims to inspire audiences through her work.

INTERVIEW | Forenext Design

INTERVIEW | Forenext Design

Johnny Jiasheng Chen, born in Taichung, Taiwan, is a Chicago-based creative industrial/graphic/UX designer/artist. He is recognized for his innovative design skills and cross-disciplinary practices in design and art. His practice includes digital fabrication, product design, graphic design, and crafts, reflecting on the purpose of design, and seeking new perspectives. He is the founder of the Forenext Design studio.

INTERVIEW | Shiyu (Icy) Qiao

INTERVIEW | Shiyu (Icy) Qiao

Shiyu (Icy) Qiao is a London-based animation director, 2D & stop-motion animator, and illustration artist from China. Her themes are often drawn from personal experience, social psychology, and philosophy. Her works are not limited to a single medium and she sees her creation as a healing process, creating a conversation with the viewers through the dissection of memory and self.