Identity

INTERVIEW | Lili Xie

INTERVIEW | Lili Xie

Lili Xie engages with the realms of photography, video, performance, and ceramics in her artistic practice. The evolution of her work is an ongoing journey of self-exploration, inquiry, and the deconstruction of her own identity. Through these diverse mediums, she navigates the complex landscape of personal introspection and transformation.

INTERVIEW | Ruonan Shen

INTERVIEW | Ruonan Shen

Ruonan Shen is a visual artist and photographer based in London. Her work engages with gender expression and transformation, focusing on China’s emerging drag scene as a lens through which to question the boundaries of beauty, strength, and self-presentation. Shen creates highly staged environments that balance intimacy and control, presence and absence.

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 | Ollie Hongji Li

INTERVIEW | Ollie Hongji Li

Ollie Hongji Li is a fiber artist and textile designer based in New York City. Drawing inspiration from nature and religion, Ollie creates textile sculpture using knotting, knitting, crocheting, spinning, and natural dye. Ollie's art reinterprets the traditional yin-yang dichotomy and offers a new perspective on gender roles.

INTERVIEW | Yicheng Zhu

INTERVIEW | Yicheng Zhu

Yicheng Zhu is a freelance multidisciplinary visual artist. She frequently draws inspiration from real-world references and, influenced by her Chinese heritage, often incorporates elements of Chinese culture into her work. Whether it's a futuristic cityscape, a post-apocalyptic wasteland, or an ancient sacred ruin, Yicheng brings each world to life with fresh and compelling visual storytelling.

INTERVIEW | Kimin Kim

INTERVIEW | Kimin Kim

Kimin Kim is a Korean-born painter currently living in Brooklyn, New York. His practice centres around the intersection of botanical symbolism, historical memory, and the ritualized navigation of grief. He engages flora as both symbolic vessels and ritualized objects, drawing on their presence in Korean shamanic ceremonies, funerary traditions, and ancient tombs.

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 | Maxim Frumkin (Max Naum)

INTERVIEW | Maxim Frumkin (Max Naum)

Maxim Frumkin is an award-winning visual artist based in Canada, working across experimental video, art photography, and mixed media. His practice investigates the fluidity of identity, how we perform, reshape, or resist ourselves to be seen, to belong, or to disappear. He creates flexible, unstable narratives where meaning loops, blurring the lines between memory, persona, and authenticity.

INTERVIEW | Yuyang (Lily) Wei

INTERVIEW | Yuyang (Lily) Wei

Yuyang (Lily) Wei is a Chinese-New Zealander artist currently living and working in London. Drawing on her own experiences growing up between New Zealand and China, a topic that concerns Yuyang's artworks is the identity crisis of Third-Culture Kids. Paintings in this section depict Yuyang's personal feelings of being part of a diaspora.

INTERVIEW | Anastasia Egonyan

INTERVIEW | Anastasia Egonyan

Anastasia Egonyan is a visual artist of Ukrainian and Armenian descent based in Berlin. With over a decade of experience in photography, she has expanded her practice to incorporate textiles and found objects, creating a dynamic interdisciplinary approach. Her art reflects a journey of reconciling fragmented ancestry and nomadic experiences in the search for "home" and identity.

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 | Ramón González Palazón

INTERVIEW | Ramón González Palazón

Ramón González Palazón is a multidisciplinary artist working in painting, drawing, video creation, installation, and filmmaking. His practice seeks to transform real spaces, merging the human and the material, using interactive devices to generate new interpretations of physical environments. In his latest compositions, he reflects on the natural process of atmospheric elements.

INTERVIEW | Diego Fabro

INTERVIEW | Diego Fabro

Diego Fabro is a Brazilian fine art photographer based in Dublin, Ireland. His photographic practice explores the notions of "home" and the "passage of time". Fabro is captivated by the potential of light and color to transform ordinary scenes into moments of heightened theatricality, infusing his images with a sense of tension drawn from daily life.

INTERVIEW | Yiou (Max) Yang

INTERVIEW | Yiou (Max) Yang

Max Yang is a photographer based in Los Angeles and Beijing. Through her graduate studies, Max applies a cross-disciplinary approach to researching East Asian performance genres, such as film, dance, and visual arts. Her work examines how East Asian artists challenge traditional gender roles and advocate for social equity.

INTERVIEW | Karolina Zgłobicka

INTERVIEW | Karolina Zgłobicka

Karolina Zgłobicka, a Polish artist based in Valencia, Spain, explores themes of relocation, memory, and the everyday objects that anchor us to our personal histories. Karolina Zgłobicka's art reflects on the intricate relationship between cherished objects and the memories they evoke, prompting the viewer to reconsider their connection with the material world and the passage of time.

INTERVIEW | Eagan Hsu

INTERVIEW | Eagan Hsu

Eagan Hsu is an emerging photographic artist based in Taipei. His work explores the complex web of human emotions, mental health, identity, and the often-overlooked moments of daily life. Eagan's photography spans from candid street portraits to conceptual series, delving into themes like imperfection, memory, and anonymity.

INTERVIEW | Tangyu Zhang

INTERVIEW | Tangyu Zhang

Tangyu Zhang is a photographer and freelance photojournalist based in Washington, DC, and she is celebrated for her evocative storytelling through the lens. Tangyu’s artistic vision centers on the belief that every individual has a story worth sharing. Her photographs aim to bridge the gap between the seen and the unseen, delving into themes of identity, resilience, and belonging.

INTERVIEW | Miguel Bragança

INTERVIEW | Miguel Bragança

Michel Bragança is a Portuguese painter and artist with a degree in Fine Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Porto. In their artistic practice, there is a need to define who they are as they exist, which has been a constant research theme and a reason for their ontological questioning and introspective process, which in turn are connected to their artistic practice.