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.
Erika Thomas is a Brazilian artist, currently based in France since the 1980s. As an artist, Erika Thomas sees artistic creation as a profound connection to oneself, others, and the world. In her current presentation, she incorporates dance, exploring the body's relationship to space, poems that delve into language and its connection to meaning, and video, a crucial contemporary medium interwoven with music.
Yilin Du is a London-based digital artist and character designer with a diverse background in creating multimedia content. Her creations aim to provide insight into how digital technologies, new materials, and aesthetics could change our approach to design and thinking. Du's artistic endeavors culminate in a thought-provoking video, a poignant testament to the profound impact technology wields on our perceptions of selfhood.
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.
Jessalyn Finch has been a visual artist since 2009. Post-pandemic, Finch continued to focus on the conceptual work of body perception and voyeurism. Her body of work combines large-scale drawing and sculpture to investigate our experiences and perceptions of the human body. Her current work explores body dysmorphia, identity, and sense of self. The themes are meant to be a catalyst for discussion and connection through shared experience.
Tokie Wang is a Chinese choreographer, dancer, and visual artist currently based in Los Angeles. "RECORDING IN PROCESS" is a thought-provoking art piece that delves into the impact of surveillance systems on our daily lives. The project aims to recreate a "living space" by discreetly placing multiple hidden cameras to record performers while simultaneously live-streaming the recordings within the same space.
Se Young Yim is a New York-based painter and sculptor, originally from Seoul, South Korea. Her artistic practice is centered around the exploration of the vulnerable physicality of the body and the representation of intimate moments or places imbued with an eerie quality. Through her art, she seeks to capture the fragile nature of humans. Her work oscillates between concealing and revealing, always with a subtle sense.
Danzhu Hu is an award-winning Chinese visual storyteller, currently specializing in illustration and fine art painting. Through her practice, Hu wishes to create a world where the most cryptic, subtle, and complicated emotions can be captured, translated, and cherished. Hu's visual language also plays into the sense of emotiveness. Her work is filled with aesthetic cues reminiscent of nature's organic forms, where she hides subtle metaphors.
Caroline Kampfraath is a Dutch sculptor from Amsterdam. Her works consist primarily of elements that she fuses into the total artwork, often thematic pieces and installations. Caroline is socially driven, both as a person and as an artist. In her work, she highlights the urgency and impact of global crises, which are currently upon us and permeate our collective consciousness.
Zheng Minzhi is a multidisciplinary artist from China, based in Chicago. Her work reveals the hidden and complex connections between the human body, machinery, and the inherent violence within these relationships, drawing from personal narratives. Within this private narrative framework, decaying spaces, blurred tragedies, dreams, and indulgent bodies roam freely, embracing their nomadic nature.
Yuguang (YG) Zhang is a New York-based new media / AI artist. His current practice, which incorporates interactive media, installation, and live performance, explores the connections we make with the ubiquitous AI systems embedded around us, the surprises and struggles we have when we (partially) surrender our authorship to intelligent algorithms, and the cultural & ethical shifts that come along in our society.
Ettore Albert’s art is meant to inspire and awaken, question everything, bend the rules, break laws, dissolve the solid and connect the strange. It should animate to play. His art should point out the illusory nature of our transient environment. It's a realization that frees you, that makes you realize that serious is only what you take seriously.
Liza Odinokikh is a Russian artist, currently living and working in Saint Petersburg. She works in various media, including painting, graphics, and objects. Liza addresses the themes of personal identity and introspection. Through the practice of emotionally figurative therapy, dreams, automatic writing, and other techniques of working with the unconscious, the artist finds evidence of the possibility of influencing and controlling her consciousness.
Haoxuan Chen is a Chinese artist, based in Changsha. Chen Haoxuan often paints teenagers in different scenes, and those teenagers are symbolic and can be seen as his own narrative about himself. There will also be frequent images of black cats, for whom the black cat is symbolized by the other. These objects are very important to him, and they are related to them, and then uses strong colors to express their concern for their relevance.
Jhuliana Cueva, alias Jhuly, is a self-taught Ecuadorian photographer. She expresses with digital and conceptual photography her vision of her own existence to how she observes and interprets the world. Likewise, her works are based on everyday life and social criticism with the aim of conveying succinctly, thoughts of contemporary life.
Jiaqi Pan is a Chinese photographer, currently living and working in New York. Her series Drive-thru focuses on the working class, specifically women in the service sector. These photographs celebrate female African-Americans as individuals, working in the low-wage, fast food industry. This body of work reveals spaces and environments we encounter but sometimes overlook in our everyday lives.
Man Zhu is a fine art photographer originally from China, and currently based in New York. Her latest series, UnFrame: Relationship, is a body of photo-based works through which she explores her subconscious behavior by showing her relationships with people around her. The creative process draws on the principles of semiotics, appropriating and retaining each subject’s past, and integrating them into self-portraiture.
Matityahu Neriya is a portrait and wildlife photographer based in Judean Desert, Israel. He constantly searches for emotions, textures, and colors to tell an interesting story. He likes to shoot environmental portraits in difficult-to-reach locations. His captured experiences are the result of remaining open to his surroundings allowing for the subject to evoke the scene and reveal its true essence.
Minh Vinh is an American artist based in San Francisco. His work involves a mixture of illustration and design techniques. The artist has devised a number of concepts with various iterations to be a part of the subsequent choosing. The resulting creations were the products of several rounds of shooting and revising physical-world graphic layouts. The pictures that he presents are his personal narratives and commentaries.
