Wang Boyuan is an artist based in London and China who explores absurdity and fantasy through printmaking, moving images, drawing, etc. Wang Boyuan’s works employ imagination and humor to reflect and rethink identity, sexuality, social constraints, and underlying ideologies. His current work is a series of drawings that serve as self-portraits exploring my possibilities, desires, and emotions.
Renowned for their versatility and innovative use of mixed media, Chen Yang specializes in digital media art, moving images, as well as painting and sculpture installations. Their creative practice is characterized by a multidisciplinary approach, through which they investigate and articulate the nuanced dialogues between human societies and their habitats.
Xinyu Zhang, also known as DayDay, is a contemporary artist originally from Wuhan, Hubei, China, and currently based in New York. Drawing inspiration from daily observations, existential reflections, and a relentless curiosity to explore diverse materials, Xinyu's art is distinguished by minimalist lines and symbols, continually seeking a delicate balance between design principles and fine art.
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.
Jiangshengyu Nova Pan is a moving image and installation artist, currently based in Baltimore (USA). work focuses on human mobility. Working from the perspective of the individual, Pan’s work explores the profound transformations of space, power relations, and social networks faced by a mobile population through sculptures and videos, appropriating everyday life scenes based on her semi-fictional writings.
Daiqing Zhang (b. 1998, Beijing, China) now lives and works in Providence, RI, and Los Angeles, CA, USA. Her practice is informed by phenomena in everyday life and their transcendental and celestial significance. Zhang’s work often takes form in highly crafted experimental instruments underscored by phenomenology, recreating and staging serendipitous moments with hot glass.
Ben Quesnel is a multimedia artist and educator producing work in Stamford, Connecticut. He deconstructs and distorts objects from his everyday experience, apprehending the meanings that have been attached to the items and evaluating them with a new understanding. Through the deliberate placement of these objects in unexpected ways, Quesnel creates a sense of bewilderment, a disruption to challenge certainties and confront preconceptions.
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.
Farrah Li is a Chinese Photographic and Installation artist based in London. Her creative process revolves around the exploration of materials such as balloons, plastic, strings, and fabric, as she seeks to unearth hidden dimensions and identities within them. By manipulating and transforming these materials, she aims to challenge conventional notions and expand the boundaries of perception.
p:d (Shuochun Xiang) is a London-based artist from Jiangsu, China. Integrating her life practice into her artistic practice, her work was involved in a wide range of media, including but not limited to sculpture, moving images, text, and performance. p:d tends to choose basic and daily materials, focuses on East Asian social issues from a female perspective, and explores themes of alienation and body politics.
Yixuan Wu is a visual artist, which currently lives and works in New York. Her sculptural arrangements address the subtle gestures that endow the objects of sensual qualities, the incongruous systems, and the uncanny. By weaving personal narratives into multiple cultural references, Yixuan's practice delves into fragmented memories through layered intricacies
Joy Yue Zhuo is a Shanghai-based object designer. She designs furniture and objects to express her utopian fantasy to the audience. She hopes users can imagine the fantasy through the interaction with her furniture and objects. While people are interacting or observing her works, they will become part of the fantasy. Joy Zhuo’s works are the NPCs (nonplayer characters) of a game she created herself called Utopian Fantasy.
Yuko Kyutoku is a Japanese artist currently living and working in New York City. Her artmaking process is transformative and she makes art based on her rich life experiences. She feels that life experiences open up many opportunities and make her artworks richer and unique. She currently works as a therapist at the children's hospital in the city, where she offers art therapy to support children with mental issues and severe disabilities.
Bo Zhang is an artist, designer, and co-curator, based between Beijing and New York. Creativity and originality are the most solid foundations on which his works can be recognized and loved. He believes a good artwork should be sentimental, have a soul, not a cold entity, but a wonderful interaction with people. He is the founder of Desz office, a young creative studio that mixes art, design, material, and communications.
Leslie García Blanco is a visual artist of Cuban origin who lives between Cuba and Switzerland. His work is characterized by the versatility of his staging as well as his constant concern for the poetics of everyday life. García Blanco finds reasons and procedures that displaces with apparent naturalness and spontaneity to the field of visual arts.
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.
Huang Hua is a Chinese photographer and media expert, currently based in Europe. Due to his life experience, Hua Huang is interested in Eastern mysticism culture and is sensitive to the so-called "truth" of society. In the past two years, because of the epidemic, Huang Hua has begun to focus more on the existence of individuals in the family and the isolation of individuals from society.
