Collectors Art Book vol.2.1

INTERVIEW | Maya Smira

INTERVIEW | Maya Smira

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.

INTERVIEW | Celine Chan

INTERVIEW | Celine Chan

Celine Chen is a novel artist in Hong Kong. Inspired by the Russian paper-quilling master Yulia Brodskaya, Celine never stopped practicing and devoted herself ardently to creating paper-quilling art. Her artworks have a strong personality, with gorgeous integration of Oriental culture. She is one of the few Asian artists engaged in the creation of paper quilling.

INTERVIEW | Rena Kubota

INTERVIEW | Rena Kubota

Rena Kubota is a freelance illustrator, motion and graphic designer, and art director for the NFT collection. The excitement in her work is seeing people like her work, asking what the piece's meaning may be and why she chose certain details. She wants her story to be a beacon to young artists that struggled, as she did not give up hope in finding a purpose for her art in the professional environment.

INTERVIEW | Claire-louise Pitman

INTERVIEW | Claire-louise Pitman

Claire-louise Pitman is an eco-conscious, disabled, cameraless artist. This is done by using sustainable photographic light processes such as chlorophyll printing, cyanotype printing, and scanography, meaning no harm has been done to the environment. Through her research on visual impairment and Anomia Claire-louise expands her knowledge but still faces accessible barriers along the way.

INTERVIEW | Asmae Mouayn

INTERVIEW | Asmae Mouayn

Asmae Mouayn, alias ‘Asmyn’, is a Moroccan fractal artist based in Marrakesh. Her artwork attempts to demonstrate that science and art go hand in hand and that equations can be set up to an artistic visualization. By using mathematical formulas, she creates unique fractal art pieces. She wants to arouse the public’s curiosity and push people to imagine the narratives and stories behind every fractal.

INTERVIEW | YaXi Zhou

INTERVIEW | YaXi Zhou

YaXi Zhou is a fashion designer. She mostly focuses on the emotional connection with human beings. She has always been committed to sustainable design, and she is currently working on using natural plants for fabric dyeing. Her latest project, Freedom from Shadow, was inspired by people's anxiety regarding their appearance and enables viewers to explore the stories and experiences behind the physical changes.

INTERVIEW | Liao Qian

INTERVIEW | Liao Qian

Liao Qian 廖倩 (they/them) is a glass artist based in Brooklyn, NY. As a chronic trauma survivor, Chinese non-binary, bilingual & multicultural creative, Joss is devoted to making space and taking space in the form of art. As a survivor of domestic violence, socio-political trauma, and sexual assault, Joss aims to inspire shared tenderness and radical vulnerability.

INTERVIEW | Koo J

INTERVIEW | Koo J

Koo J is a South Korean artist, currently based in Seoul, South Korea. She works on photography with a warm color film camera. The loneliness and anxiety of everyday life in the crushed image, while recalling the feeling of excitement, also express various emotions, such as moments of the past and fears and expectations for the future. For painting, she works on abstractions to convey emotions.

INTERVIEW | Sümer Sayın

INTERVIEW | Sümer Sayın

Sümer Sayın is an interdisciplinary artist, working primarily with sculpture and installation. She makes interventions into found objects, using geometric elements, reflections, repetitions, and loops, altering their composition and function. By re-constructing some of the elements they are composed of, she assigns them new contexts and layers of meanings.

INTERVIEW | Gulbin Ozdamar Akarcay

INTERVIEW | Gulbin Ozdamar Akarcay

Gulbin Ozdamar Akarcay tries to understand the cultural, ideological, environmental, and sociological order of the world, as well as the ordinary structures of daily life, by reading, using and producing images, which will hopefully open up new doors to the future. She uses photography to conduct visual ethnographic research.

INTERVIEW | Kwong Kwok Wai

INTERVIEW | Kwong Kwok Wai

Kwong is a multi-disciplinary artist who focuses on oil painting and fiction writing. After learning the basics from art teachers, he developed his own artistic approach while serving in the journalistic field for 30 years. He usually starts with concepts in his painting process, and concepts are converted into symbols, which he uses to build up a connection between contemporary art and memories, history and his community.

INTERVIEW | Gianluca Lattuada

INTERVIEW | Gianluca Lattuada

Gianluca Lattuada is an Italian artist, who was born in 1988. Currently, he lives and works between Milan and Madrid. The recurring themes in Lattuada’s work are the energy of bodies, eroticism, violence and the transience of life (“memento mori” philosophy). His work has two goals: to give an overview of the issues of contemporary society and to create a new vision of the world that can help taking a step forward tomorrow.

INTERVIEW | Elaine Chao

INTERVIEW | Elaine Chao

Elaine B. Chao is a traditional-digital hybrid artist working in Queens, NY. Expanding on traditional techniques, she first composes paintings on canvas or paper using acrylic, oil, and other mixed media. She then imports the paintings into image manipulation programs to blend, apply filters, and run actions. The final digital work is printed or uploaded to an AR app for display.

INTERVIEW | Sophie Ruoyu Zhang

INTERVIEW | Sophie Ruoyu Zhang

Sophie Ruoyu Zhang is a Chinese artist, currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Working as a "diffraction apparatus", her practice utilizes multiple natural materials (napa cabbage, wine, coffee, etc.). Her oil painting, printmaking, and performance respond to and reinterpret the natural objects that are in a limbo of recognition, permeating poetics on the threshold of the subjecthood, the recognizable and the representable.

INTERVIEW | Rocio G Montiel

INTERVIEW | Rocio G Montiel

Rocio G Montiel, also known as "RGM", is a Mexican artist who lives in Los Angeles, California. Her series "A REAL BODY" is a 2 volume digital art series that speaks about inner beauty and self-love—a project to put us beyond the eye and see further the exterior of ourselves.

INTERVIEW | Yunah Seo

INTERVIEW | Yunah Seo

Yunah Seo is a South Korean artist, currently based in London. Her practice considers the internal and attempts to visualize inner reactions relating to personal circumstances, consisting of beliefs, emotions, perceptions, philosophies, and the notion of creation. She combines images and memories from her own life, laying them out across her materials in order to consider and develop intuitive insight into her life.

INTERVIEW | Kim Matthews

INTERVIEW | Kim Matthews

Kim Matthews makes nonobjective sculptures and drawings in various media. The frequent use of modular construction arose from practical concerns and spiritual ones, as repetition is evocative of the mantra meditation that structures her daily life. The ongoing Objects of Affection series was prompted by an urge to reclaim comforting childhood memories and honor the artists and designers whose work informed her early visual lexicon.

INTERVIEW | Monika Katterwe

INTERVIEW | Monika Katterwe

Monika Katterwe is a German photographer based in Luckenwalde. Using the Tyndall effect, Monika started by visualizing the light rays in different media and observing the interaction of light with crystals. She questions her observations on the formation of space in the fluid through the comparative analyses with scientific publications on this topic.

INTERVIEW | Daria Lou Nakov

INTERVIEW | Daria Lou Nakov

Daria Lou Nakov is a French visual artist. Her work is at the crossroads between installation, photography, and video. She sees photography as a way to create images and not simply capture the world around her. In a society so fueled with images, she likes to create surrealistic images to question our relation to the hyperrealistic image-based world.

INTERVIEW | Gülsah Ayla Bayrak

INTERVIEW | Gülsah Ayla Bayrak

Gülsah Ayla Bayrak (1997) is a multidisciplinary artist from Belgium. Ayla has roots in Turkey and Georgia, which influenced her work drastically. The artist creates connections between east and west and tries to overcome the imaginary border between the two continents. The artist focuses on Individual experience, cultural diaspora, and society's role in her life.