Lohrasb Bayat (b. 1990, Tehran, Iran) is a self-taught artist based in Tehran. His practice delves into the dynamics of power, uncertainty, and resilience within socio-political and psychological landscapes. Working primarily with painting, Bayat explores the tension between vulnerability and defiance, often through figures caught in ambiguous or constrained situations.
Yulin Peng is the curator and director of Galerie de Nuage, a contemporary art gallery and cultural platform operating between New York and Hong Kong. A licensed architect with a Master of Architecture from Columbia University, her practice spans curation, design, and economic research. Her work bridges the creative and the quantitative, contributing to broader questions of how culture is shaped.
Svetlana Bakhareva is a visionary visual artist and performer, that lives and works in Barcelona. Key directions in her practice include embodied experience, the perception of environment as a living space, and engagement with the more-than-human. These vectors are unified through an exploration of experiences that extend beyond purely material perception.
ChingKe Lin is a bamboo artist rooted in material philosophy, expanding the contemporary possibilities of bamboo. Rather than reproducing traditional craft, he approaches bamboo as an explorer, studying its tension and resilience to seek a deeper bond between nature and human experience. His work grows from the essence of the material, turning bamboo weaving into a fluid spatial language.
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.
Bichen Liu is a Chinese lens-based visual artist working across fine art photography, black-and-white image-making, and experimental photographic practice. What Lies Beneath is a black-and-white photographic series focusing on exposed root systems and coastal residues, that transforms overlooked ecological fragments into visual records of support, erosion, and displacement.
Haohao Huang is a Chinese visual artist based in Savannah, Georgia. Her practice explores memory, intimacy, displacement, and belonging, often examining the instability of memory and the ways personal experiences are translated and transformed through photographic processes. Her latest series, Lost in Translation, examines intimacy, memory, and the instability of identity.
Run Wu is a Chinese Australian interdisciplinary digital artist, filmmaker, and signed commercial director currently based in Paris and London. Drawing inspiration from his multicultural background and experiences across continents, Run's work often reflects themes of displacement, transformation, and the human condition.
Nebras Hoveizavi (b. Ahvaz, Iran) is an Arab-Iranian artist and educator working across experimental film, photography, installation, and poetry. Her practice engages with displacement, memory, borders, and the limits of language. Working across photography, video, and experimental media, she approaches image-making as a form of witnessing, transforming observation into a visual language.
Anna Moskalets is a contemporary Ukrainian artist, independent curator, and social activist. Born in Romny (Sumy region, Ukraine), she is now located in London, UK. Her work confronts urgent themes: displacement, resilience, and the search for identity. Her practice explores the paradox of belonging, more urgent than ever, despite dislocation.
Ryan Muchen Wang is a visual artist and filmmaker based in New York. His film and video work often use a mixture of fiction, documentary, and experimental genres to examine place, displacement, and the issue of memory. His recent video and installation also examine and construct different kinds of storytelling and visual narratives. Many of his moving image work embraces the avant-garde and essayistic modes of fiction and non-fiction cinema.
