Memory

INTERVIEW | Harshil Upadhyay

INTERVIEW | Harshil Upadhyay

Harshil Upadhyay is a fine art photographer and visual artist whose practice explores the delicate space between presence and absence. Influenced by both documentary realism and poetic abstraction, his work captures fleeting moments of solitary figures, transient encounters, and landscapes suspended in time, through the use of motion blur, muted tones, and selective colours.

INTERVIEW | Bin Fang

INTERVIEW | Bin Fang

Bin Fang is a multimedia artist working across language, video, installation, image, sound, and drawings. The work engages with labour, fragmented memory, and performance, often tracing ideas and materials that resist or are misread in translation in daily life. Through a poetic approach to space, Bin explores how body, identity, culture, and perception are deferred, reframed, or misunderstood.

INTERVIEW | Sona Lee

INTERVIEW | Sona Lee

Sona Lee is a Korean artist currently living and working in New York City. She primarily works in painting and drawing, reconstructing surreal spaces where fragments of memories, dreams and reality intertwine to create multi-layered visual narratives. Her layered imagery reflects a deep interest in psychological space, often blurring the boundary between the real and unreal.

INTERVIEW | Ziwen Li

INTERVIEW | Ziwen Li

Ziwen Li is an artist based between London and China, working across painting, drawing, sculpture and installation. She is deeply interested in fluid energies that circulate between the subconscious and nature. Her work reflects on memory, authenticity, transience, psychological vulnerability, kindness, and the human search for meaning.

INTERVIEW | Songer Yang

INTERVIEW | Songer Yang

Songer Yang is a visual artist working across painting, graphic design, and narrative forms. Rooted in personal memory, her practice explores themes of family, femininity, and the emotional weight of domestic rituals. She is interested in how love lingers in the everyday, how repetition echoes absence, and how the body remembers through touch.

INTERVIEW | Chloe Saron

INTERVIEW | Chloe Saron

Chloe Saron was born in Baltimore, Maryland. Through blurred forms and softness, the artist explores memory, interconnectedness, and stillness, inviting viewers into a quiet space of reflection and recognition. What is so exciting about Saron’s process is that it is an act of personal rebellion, going against everything she was trained to do.

INTERVIEW | Daniela Miranda – Antüpewma Rülkelme Mella

INTERVIEW | Daniela Miranda – Antüpewma Rülkelme Mella

Daniela Miranda (Antüpewma Rülkelme Mella) is a photographer, ceremonialist, and cultural storyteller rooted in her Mapuche lineage. Her practice weaves ancestral memory, visual ritual, and cultural preservation. The series Whispers of the Amazon is a ceremonial act of remembrance, an offering to the Sapara Nation, whose language and ancestral knowledge stand on the edge of disappearance.

INTERVIEW | Alexandru Crisan

INTERVIEW | Alexandru Crisan

Alexandru Crișan is a visual artist interested in the existential complementarity of objective and nonobjective forms of expression. His latest series, FRAGMENTA DEORUM I, proposes a contemporary archaeology of the mythic body. In this series, Crișa constructs a visual language that fractures and reconstitutes the divine.

INTERVIEW | Nebras Hoveizavi

INTERVIEW | Nebras Hoveizavi

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.

INTERVIEW | Mark James Murphy

INTERVIEW | Mark James Murphy

Mark James Murphy is a contemporary British printmaker, currently based in Vũng Tàu, Vietnam. His practice centres on the linocut, a labor-intensive relief medium he utilises as an "Anchor of Attention" against the velocity of modern life. Self-taught in the medium, Murphy explores the stillness and wonder found within the overlooked details of architecture and urban environments.

INTERVIEW | Wenwei Chen

INTERVIEW | Wenwei Chen

Chen Wenwei approaches photography as a speculative language rather than a mere annotative reproduction of reality. Influenced by her background in editorial design, she utilises photography as a structural tool to investigate how memory, materiality, and power structures intertwine within built spaces, revealing themselves through light, circulation, signage, and boundaries.

INTERVIEW | Yuchen Li

INTERVIEW | Yuchen Li

Yuchen Li's photographic practice is concept-driven and rooted in personal experience and research into trauma psychology, exploring the relationships between emotional experience, memory, and the body. Drawing on the restrained aesthetics and imagery of Chinese literature, her work emphasises subtlety, ambiguity, and internal emotional tension as visual strategies.

INTERVIEW | Mariia Pavlyk

INTERVIEW | Mariia Pavlyk

Mariia Pavlyk is a Ukrainian designer working across fashion through sculptural textiles and environment-driven narrative. Raised in Kyiv, she shaped her aesthetic through Ukrainian culture, nature, and regional crafts, forming pieces that feel both intimate and elemental. Her practice navigates memory, culture, and resilience, weaving ancestral crafts into sculptural garments.

INTERVIEW | Ece Batur

INTERVIEW | Ece Batur

Ece Batur is a London-based contemporary artist whose practice critically examines the entanglements of gendered violence, censorship, and cultural memory as they are inscribed upon the body and the domestic sphere. Working across performance, installation, sound, and text, her practice mobilises materials imbued with domestic and intergenerational feminist symbolism.

INTERVIEW | Yi Wang - Yione Studio

INTERVIEW | Yi Wang - Yione Studio

Yi Wang is a licensed architect based in New York and the founder of Studio Yione, recognised for its innovative engagement with space, materiality, and historical context. Yi explores how design can bridge collective memories and visions, integrating art, technology, and sustainability to shape public perception and urban experience. Her latest jewelry series is titled Body-as-Site.

INTERVIEW | Shu Wang

INTERVIEW | Shu Wang

Shu Wang is an internationally renowned interdisciplinary artist specializing in jewelry design and wearable sculpture. Her practice centers on the body as a site where emotion, structure, and social tension converge. Through interaction, movement, and physical proximity, she investigates how objects function as living media, activating sensory experience, mediating social expectations, and generating shared perception between wearer and viewer.

INTERVIEW | Marta Ornelas Monteiro

INTERVIEW | Marta Ornelas Monteiro

Born in Lisboa and shaped by a global curiosity, Marta Ornelas Monteiro is an architect turned multidisciplinary artist whose creative journey is grounded in a profound dialogue with nature. Each piece becomes a living testimony to nature's resilience, memory, and transformation. Her latest work, Layers of Life, Layers of Body, Layers of Nature’s Reality, explores the unseen strata of existence.

INTERVIEW | Randong Yu

INTERVIEW | Randong Yu

Randong Yu's work investigates the tension between fragility and assurance, and how belief, reliance, and ontological security surface through material presence. As thresholds and limitations grow porous, his practice illuminates the friction between play, logic, and emotion, tracing the fragile architectures that hold tangible perception and intangible faith together.

INTERVIEW | Yuying Herr

INTERVIEW | Yuying Herr

Yuying Herr is a multidisciplinary visual artist whose practice moves between digital worldbuilding, expanded illustration, and speculative image-making. Working at the intersection of technology, memory, and emotional perception, she constructs immersive visual architectures that question how human experience is reshaped in increasingly hybrid realities.

INTERVIEW | Rhea Hu

INTERVIEW | Rhea Hu

Rhea Hu is an illustrator and visual storyteller pursuing an MFA in Illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design. With a background in Traditional Chinese Medicine, her interdisciplinary practice spans drawing, digital fabrication, and book arts. She constructs visual languages that are distilled and deliberate, infused with tension, precision and irony.