Emotions

INTERVIEW | Kuan-Yu Chou

INTERVIEW | Kuan-Yu Chou

Kuan-Yu Chou is a Taiwanese visual artist currently based in London. Focusing on body memories and inner experiences, her work invites viewers into a silent, tangible visual realm that intertwines body, emotion, and dreams. Through paintings, photographs, and installations, she creates a space where the viewer can reflect on vulnerability, suffering, and survival.

INTERVIEW | Ziggy Yang

INTERVIEW | Ziggy Yang

Ziggy Yang is a Chinese installation and new media artist based in New York. His practice explores the complex dialogue between human emotions, cultural conditioning, and technology, positioning technology as both an interactive medium and a conceptual framework. Yang employs mechanical systems, programmable physical computing, artificial intelligence, and synthetic materials.

INTERVIEW | Jiashun Zhou

INTERVIEW | Jiashun Zhou

Jiashun Zhou is a fibre artist whose work intricately explores the intersection of memory, space, and emotion through weaving. His artistic practice transforms personal experiences and fleeting moments into tangible, three-dimensional forms. Jiashun Zhou’s work is deeply influenced by his desire to decelerate the rapid pace of modern life and draw attention to the often-overlooked details.

INTERVIEW | Yanhua Feng

INTERVIEW | Yanhua Feng

Yanhua Feng is a Chinese-born artist based in San Francisco, with studios in Vancouver and Beijing. Working in acrylic on canvas, she constructs layered surfaces that hold contradiction. While abstract, her work is rooted in the emotional architecture of contemporary life, its intimacy and instability. Female bodies, domestic space, and unspoken gestures are all recurring themes.

INTERVIEW | Rose Ansari

INTERVIEW | Rose Ansari

Rose Ansari is an Iranian multidisciplinary artist, creative technologist, and computational media researcher. Her research-based art practice explores cyborg and post-human theories, sensory distortion, and telecommunication through laboratory-driven processes. She creates immersive environments that blend technology, cognitive science, and poetic expression.

INTERVIEW | Chen Yiting

INTERVIEW | Chen Yiting

Chen Yiting is a visual artist, illustrator, and ecological narrative researcher, who currently lives and works in Beijing. Chen Yiting's visual language is known for its gentle, restrained, yet powerful style. Skillfully blending watercolour and digital media, her work emphasizes quiet, poetic contemplation rather than dazzling visual effects, guiding viewers to reconnect with nature's rhytm.

INTERVIEW | Sharon Yaoxi He

INTERVIEW | Sharon Yaoxi He

Sharon Yaoxi He is a renowned Chinese-Canadian painter based in New York City and New Jersey. Informed by philosophical inquiry and classical artistic traditions, Sharon Yaoxi He’s paintings offer a compelling reimagination of space. Rather than treating space as a fixed, measurable entity, she approaches it as a dynamic, psychological experience shaped by perception.

INTERVIEW | Tianxi Wang

INTERVIEW | Tianxi Wang

Tianxi Wang is a freelance artist based in London. Her practice grows from the fertile soil of familial memory, tracing invisible currents of tension and emotional residue within intimate bonds. Experimenting with oil paint, acrylic, oil sticks, and collages, Tianxi experiments with textures and techniques to bring artistic visions to life, trying to expand the possibilities of material.

INTERVIEW | Can Cui

INTERVIEW | Can Cui

Can Cui, originally from Beijing and currently based in New York, is known for her sculptural silhouettes and thoughtful explorations of material. Her work combines technical precision with conceptual depth, often engaging with themes of identity, transformation, and emotional texture. Can continues to challenge conventional structures and explore the expressive possibilities of fashion.

INTERVIEW | Yiqi Zhao

INTERVIEW | Yiqi Zhao

Yiqi Zhao (Edie) is a visual artist and illustrator whose surrealist practice interrogates themes of identity, societal constraints, and resilience through a fusion of meticulous craftsmanship and symbolic storytelling. She continues to expand her practice, blending traditional techniques with digital innovation to amplify underrepresented narratives.

INTERVIEW | Mosaz (Zijun Zhao)

INTERVIEW | Mosaz (Zijun Zhao)

Mosaz (Zijun Zhao)'s work is based on her understanding of traditional culture as an Asian individual—an understanding shaped by what she has heard, seen, and deeply felt since childhood. She focuses on symbols, imagery, and rituals embedded in cultural memory, reconstructing them through a personal lens. This is how she expresses the complexity of her inner spiritual world.

INTERVIEW | Daniel Selyebi

INTERVIEW | Daniel Selyebi

Daniel Selyebi is a Hungarian artist from Budapest. He is mostly inspired by the balance and primal trust felt in nature by experiencing the state of the here and now. He creates according to the principle of less is more, maintaining the characteristic airy character of his figures, which sometimes border on abstraction.

INTERVIEW | Jiaying Jing

INTERVIEW | Jiaying Jing

Jiaying is a filmmaker whose work explores the intricacies of human emotion and the societal forces that shape our lives. Her storytelling delves into themes of identity, gender, and societal expectations, influenced by her experiences as an Asian woman navigating the challenges of Hollywood. Through her films, Jiaying seeks to uncover hidden truths and amplify marginalized voices.

INTERVIEW | Meicheng Chi

INTERVIEW | Meicheng Chi

Meicheng Chi 迟美橙 is a multidisciplinary artist and designer currently based in New York. Her creative practice transcends conventional boundaries, allowing her to explore emotional and material connections across different mediums. Through her artworks, Meicheng taps into deeply personal experiences and dreamlike states, creating pieces that resonate with softness and emotional depth.

INTERVIEW | Matteo Cervone

INTERVIEW | Matteo Cervone

Matteo Cervone is an Italian photographer, based in Milan. After working for 25 years in multinational service companies as a behavioral trainer, he approached photography later in life, establishing himself as an artist. His series Other Worlds is a visual journey in time and space, where traffic lights become the main character of an urban stage.

INTERVIEW | Karim Bassegoda - Keight

INTERVIEW | Karim Bassegoda - Keight

Keight is a multidisciplinary artist who explores a variety of experiments and mediums, ranging from “traditional” art to immersive installations and digital works. Equal parts artist and designer, and both conceptual and expressionist, Keight takes the viewer on a visual journey through his unique language, peppered with references and symbolic pictograms that circumscribe his abundant universe.

INTERVIEW | Boris Osipau

INTERVIEW | Boris Osipau

Boris is a self-taught photographer originally from Minsk, Belarus, now based in Philadelphia. He combines his technical knowledge and creative vision to produce compelling images that resonate emotionally. His project, Fierce, examines the paradox of cuteness aggression, a psychological phenomenon where overwhelming feelings of adoration for something provoke an intense response.

INTERVIEW | Leon Phillips

INTERVIEW | Leon Phillips

Leon Phillips is a contemporary painter currently based in Vancouver, Canada. He employs the materiality of color to evoke a visceral response in viewers, infusing color with structural significance rather than mere decoration. Phillips’ gestural work explores perception and embodiment through the materiality of color, aiming to immerse viewers in a corporeal experience.

INTERVIEW | Maxime Déria

INTERVIEW | Maxime Déria

Maxime Déria, a passionate French artist, explores the intricacies of his life through spontaneous and captivating art. Completely self-taught, he instinctively grasped the rigor of collage in the manner of Jacques Villeglé or Raymond Hains, appropriating the medium to tell fragments of personal history. Painting completes and contributes to the overall dynamism of the images.

INTERVIEW | Qianying Zhu

INTERVIEW | Qianying Zhu

Qianying Zhu is a Chinese jewelry designer. Qianying studied and trained herself as a jewelry designer and focuses on artistic jewelry and self-express. She enjoys observing the characteristics of different things and then expressing them through painting, jewelry, and other forms of artwork. She likes combining different materials together to achieve a sense of harmony and balance.