Lohrasb Bayat (b. 1990, Tehran, Iran) is a self-taught artist based in Tehran. His practice delves into the dynamics of power, uncertainty, and resilience within socio-political and psychological landscapes. Working primarily with painting, Bayat explores the tension between vulnerability and defiance, often through figures caught in ambiguous or constrained situations.
Yulin Peng is the curator and director of Galerie de Nuage, a contemporary art gallery and cultural platform operating between New York and Hong Kong. A licensed architect with a Master of Architecture from Columbia University, her practice spans curation, design, and economic research. Her work bridges the creative and the quantitative, contributing to broader questions of how culture is shaped.
Svetlana Bakhareva is a visionary visual artist and performer, that lives and works in Barcelona. Key directions in her practice include embodied experience, the perception of environment as a living space, and engagement with the more-than-human. These vectors are unified through an exploration of experiences that extend beyond purely material perception.
ChingKe Lin is a bamboo artist rooted in material philosophy, expanding the contemporary possibilities of bamboo. Rather than reproducing traditional craft, he approaches bamboo as an explorer, studying its tension and resilience to seek a deeper bond between nature and human experience. His work grows from the essence of the material, turning bamboo weaving into a fluid spatial language.
Zhi-Jiang Shan is an interior designer known for his cross-cultural design sensibility and poetic spatial expression. He often draws inspiration from classical Chinese landscapes, local craftsmanship, and symbolic spatial rituals, transforming them into immersive environments that resonate with modern life. His projects are not only functional but emotionally engaging.
Dylan Low is a Malaysian visual artist, creative designer, and educator whose multidisciplinary practice bridges contemporary design and fine art. His work investigates the fluid boundaries between emotion, memory, and artistic observation. Using digital paintings as his primary tools, he creates immersive visual narratives that challenge perceptions of emotions in art and design.
Natalia Yuresko-Bilous is a Ukrainian artist living in Bulgaria. In her work, she places a strong emphasis on light as the central expressive element. Through it, she reveals the beauty of the surrounding world and invites the viewer to pause, truly observe what often goes unnoticed, sit in quiet reflection, and become aware of the fleeting nature of time.
Lubna Alayeli is a multidisciplinary artist and interior designer whose practice explores transformation, memory, and the relationship between natural forms and abstraction. Working primarily through painting, she investigates states of emergence and transition, allowing images to evolve through layered processes of observation, intuition, and material experimentation.
Bichen Liu is a Chinese lens-based visual artist working across fine art photography, black-and-white image-making, and experimental photographic practice. What Lies Beneath is a black-and-white photographic series focusing on exposed root systems and coastal residues, that transforms overlooked ecological fragments into visual records of support, erosion, and displacement.
Shingo Ohta is a Japanese photographic artist based in Toyooka, Hyogo, near the Sea of Japan. After a long career in business and regional revitalization, he turned to photography as a primary artistic practice, developing an ongoing body of work centered on the sea as a living, volatile, and almost sacred force. His images transform waves, spray, light, and weather into abstract forms.
Chieh-Lin Wu is a London-based image maker working primarily with still life and the human body. With a background in fashion photography, her practice focuses on quiet observation and the subtle details of everyday forms. The series Tender Tension explores the visual and tactile relationship between the human body and natural forms, focusing on moments where their boundaries begin to blur.
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.
Laurent Guez is a Canadian-French artist whose practice bridges design, architecture, and ceramics. His work explores the tension between structure and organic growth, control and unpredictability. Working primarily with clay and porcelain, he approaches ceramics as both a material and a system, one that resists, transforms, and ultimately reveals its own logic.
Svetlana Bakhareva is a visionary visual artist and performer, that lives and works in Barcelona. Key directions in her practice include embodied experience, the perception of environment as a living space, and engagement with the more-than-human. These vectors are unified through an exploration of experiences that extend beyond purely material perception.
Masaaki Hasegawa’s practice explores the intersections of body, perception, language, and technology through lived experience. His practice functions as both ritual and inquiry, an attempt to access veiled mental states and to document ephemeral conditions that evade fixed meaning. Through large-scale installations, performance, and text-based works, he confronts societal norms and discomfort.
Raquel Sanchez is a multidisciplinary artist and poet based in Jerusalem. With a diverse upbringing, her artistic journey spans decades of study in painting, ceramics, sculpture, and design, both formally and informally. In her visual work, Sanchez explores light, reflection, nature, and biblical symbolism to evoke spiritual dimensions of human experience.
Lynne Roberts-Goodwin (b. 1954, Sydney) is an internationally recognized artist known for her photography, sculpture, and video. Her large-scale photographic projects explore the impact of place on cultural consciousness, often focusing on remote landscapes and ecological change. Her work highlights humanity’s effect on the planet and shifting cultural heritage.
Chen Mei-Tsen, born in Taipei (Taiwan), is a visual artist based in Paris (France) for over 30 years. Her artistic practice spans painting, drawing, photography, video, installation, and sculpture, through which she explores the intricacies of her personal quest for a sense of belonging, identity, and connection. Her journey reflects the essence of a nomadic existence, forever moving and seeking.
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.
ChingKe Lin is a bamboo artist rooted in material philosophy, expanding the contemporary possibilities of bamboo. Rather than reproducing traditional craft, he approaches bamboo as an explorer, studying its tension and resilience to seek a deeper bond between nature and human experience. His work grows from the essence of the material, turning bamboo weaving into a fluid spatial language.
Dana Wang is a photographer and cinematographer based in London, currently working primarily in the camera department on film sets. Themes of identity, nature, and human connection recur throughout her practice, carrying with them a cinematic subtlety and rhythm that flows seamlessly between her film and photographic projects.
Based in London, Chinese artist Yuying Li translates ancient Eastern philosophies into contemporary visual narratives. Her work, which often features monoprint, ink wash, and mixed media, explores the "concretisation" of a spiritual home. She converges elements of the human body, nature, and deep space to blur the lines between them, echoing the Taoist ideal of "human and nature in one."
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.
Raizel Pauline Albano is an applied anthropologist from the Philippines, currently serving as the founder-director of Anthro on Foot Audio Walking Tours and a writing consultant for UNICEF Philippines. Her practice is rooted in breaking social barriers and democratizing access to quality educational and cultural heritage materials.
