Collectors Art Book Vol.3.2

INTERVIEW | Yukang Tao

INTERVIEW | Yukang Tao

Yukang Tao is an interdisciplinary artist who works in the fields of electronic arts, animation, video, and performance. While all of his artwork alludes to the concept of gender and observes the relationship between technology and humanity, it also encompasses themes such as surveillance and self-absorption of society in media. Art and technology, virtual and accurate, the boundaries begin to blur and combine to form a new utopia.

INTERVIEW | Judit Bodrogi

INTERVIEW | Judit Bodrogi

Judit Bodrogi, a textile artist from Budapest, uses yarn like other artists use their pencils, drawing on canvas with needle and yarn. Her pictures present the pressures placed on us by our own society. Judit often deals with these deep topics through her own emotions, working and processing her own traumas throughout the art.

INTERVIEW | Hannah Kröeker

INTERVIEW | Hannah Kröeker

Hannah Kröeker is a multi-media artist and collagist residing in Manitoba, Canada. Kröeker primarily showcases her prolific work to the world in a hand-cut analog collage. Over the last decade, she has included the use of Washi Tape, transparencies, written text, and other mediums to add to the dynamics of her pieces and create more visually provocative manifestations of her imagination.

INTERVIEW | Germán Muñoz

INTERVIEW | Germán Muñoz

Amidst the vibrant landscapes of Querétaro, Mexico, Germán Muñoz is a painter and product designer whose narrative transcends borders and disciplines. Germán Muñoz invites the world to traverse the multi-dimensional landscapes of his creativity, a journey marked by the interplay of engineering precision, artistic expression, and the enduring bonds forged in the crucible of shared artistic endeavors.

INTERVIEW | Xinyi Yang

INTERVIEW | Xinyi Yang

Xinyi Yang is a young potential artist and interdisciplinary designer. Her paintings, which combine ancient East Asian poetry beauty with the reflection of contemporary philosophy, primarily feature oil and watercolour, exuding vitality as they continually explore light within darkness, specifically reflected in the relationship between people and the environment.

INTERVIEW | Tian Gan

INTERVIEW | Tian Gan

Tian Gan is a concept artist at Bad Robot Games, a video game fraction of JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot Production. Her work is mostly created through digital ways, like 2D digital painting, drawing, and 3D modeling. Working in the entertainment industry, Tian loves to design and create imaginary environments, characters, and creatures for video games, animation, and film.

INTERVIEW | Delphine Cuelenaere

INTERVIEW | Delphine Cuelenaere

Delphine Cuelenaere is driven by curiosity in both subject and method. The technique of woodcarving gives her the opportunity to be surprised by the material. Open-minded departures from the unknown and a radical openness to not knowing what will come are the essence of her artistic process. Slowly and unpredictably, scenes emerge in which voyeur and protagonist, spectator and artist, intertwine.

INTERVIEW | Tairan Hao

INTERVIEW | Tairan Hao

Tairan Hao, based in New York, is a new media artist. His work serves as an exploration and a dialogue, delving into the complexities of identity within the shifting landscapes of politics, culture, and technology. His work, rooted in personal experiences of conformity, offers a lens to examine the individual's place among the collectivism of society.

INTERVIEW | Hilda Westergård

INTERVIEW | Hilda Westergård

Hilda Westergård is a self-taught photographer living in Uppsala, Sweden. Embracing the versatility of both digital and film photography, Hilda navigates the streets with a keen eye and an open heart. Digital technology allows her to react instantaneously to unfolding scenes, while the film adds a layer of nostalgia and authenticity, inviting viewers to step into a timeless dimension of her work.

INTERVIEW | Hee Sook Kim

INTERVIEW | Hee Sook Kim

Hee Sook Kim is an accomplished visual artist who has gained recognition for her work across the world. Kim has been the recipient of several prizes and she also had a site-specific installation at the Philadelphia International Airport. She participated in several solo and group exhibitions internationally and currently, she is a Professor in the Fine Arts Department at Haverford College, Pennsylvania.

INTERVIEW | Yuqing Liu

INTERVIEW | Yuqing Liu

Yuqing Liu, an esteemed olfactory interaction artist and immersive experience designer, is celebrated for her groundbreaking work in human olfaction and memory. Utilizing advanced multisensory technologies, Liu explores how scents influence memory preservation and formation. Her art is not just interactive; it's a mission to tap into the deepest recesses of memory and emotion through scent.

INTERVIEW | Deborah Kruger

INTERVIEW | Deborah Kruger

Deborah Kruger’s latest artwork focuses on the tragic losses of the 21st century, specifically the impacts of human-induced climate change and habitat fragmentation on bird extinction. Kruger hopes that her environmental artwork invites dialogue about the importance of preserving wild spaces, animals, especially vulnerable birds, and protecting habitat for all species, including humans.

INTERVIEW | Erika Thomas

INTERVIEW | Erika Thomas

Erika Thomas is a Brazilian artist, currently based in France since the 1980s. As an artist, Erika Thomas sees artistic creation as a profound connection to oneself, others, and the world. In her current presentation, she incorporates dance, exploring the body's relationship to space, poems that delve into language and its connection to meaning, and video, a crucial contemporary medium interwoven with music.

INTERVIEW | Xiaodong Ma

INTERVIEW | Xiaodong Ma

Chicago-based visual artist and hybrid designer Xiaodong Ma was born in Nanjing, China, in 1991. In the interplay between dimensions, Xiaodong Ma found his canvas for exploration. The art practice of translation between 2D and 3D is fertile ground for experimenting with unknown outcomes, challenging viewers to see and experience familiar forms in unexpected ways.

INTERVIEW | Milena Jovicevic

INTERVIEW | Milena Jovicevic

Milena Jovicevic is a multidisciplinary artist from Montenegro. Her work is inspired by everyday life situations and paradoxes of contemporary society and the world we live in, that strange place saturated with the media, exaggerated production, and consumption. She works as a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje, Montenegro.

INTERVIEW | Catarina Diaz

INTERVIEW | Catarina Diaz

Catarina Diaz is a London-based self-taught exploratory artist, not restrained by conventions or formal ways of interpreting the world. She explores various mediums, techniques, and methods according to her inspiration, dealing with the issues of female identity in contemporary times, the search for our true identity, and the reconnection to nature and essence juxtaposed with urban life and what it represents in our life.

INTERVIEW | Ophira Spitz

INTERVIEW | Ophira Spitz

Ophira Spitz is a multimedia artist based in Tel Aviv. With a past experience as a Geography teacher, she began making art in her 30s and has continued ever since. Her art includes painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation and is influenced by various aspects such as nature, the environment, and topography. Her work has a strong bond with cartography and geography, and she aims to merge and combine various worlds.