Diaspora

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 | Jing Zhao

INTERVIEW | Jing Zhao

Jing Zhao is Chinese artist, born in Shanghai and currently based in Brooklyn, New York. explores ideological transformations in this time of accelerated information circulation and cultural diaspora. Zhao was trained as a photographer, and her research-based practice is rooted in the tradition of conceptual art. As a result, she works across a broad range of mediums.

INTERVIEW | Yu Yan

INTERVIEW | Yu Yan

Yu Yan is a visual artist based in New York, United States. Primarily working with researched-based projects and site-specific installations, she follows intuitive research pursuits across a variety of disciplines and disparate systems of knowledge. She is interested in the connectedness between personal memory and collective urban scenes, addressing issues around immigration and the diaspora community.