Society

INTERVIEW | Qianqian Jia

INTERVIEW | Qianqian Jia

Qianqian Jia is a Fashion designer based in London. For her, fashion is a way of expressing herself. For her, fashion is a way of expressing herself. Fashion doesn't just exist in the closet but in lifestyle and beliefs. Because of her experience in graphic design, her designs are always very linear and balanced. The clothes establish a sensory connection with the wearer through balance.

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 | 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 | Ellen De

INTERVIEW | Ellen De

Ellen De is a visual artist who uses photography as her primary medium to explore the intersections of architecture, abstraction, and social critique. Her work reimagines brutalist structures as sculptural forms, detaching them from their historical and ideological contexts. By emphasizing form over function, Ellen's photographs transform iconic architectural symbols into evocative remnants of unrealized utopias.

INTERVIEW | Giulia Guasta Guarnaccia

INTERVIEW | Giulia Guasta Guarnaccia

Giulia Guasta Guarnaccia is a digital artist and an intersectional activist; she also considers herself an interdisciplinary researcher and a data archaeologist. In her work, she mixes social engagement with varied artistic practices, always linked to ethical issues; in her opinion, there's a strong need to deconstruct ourselves going through privileges and marginalities.

INTERVIEW | Mingu Kang

INTERVIEW | Mingu Kang

Kang Mingu is a filmmaker, media artist, and writer based in South Korea. His works often depict vulnerable figures within society, exploring themes such as redevelopment, technological transformation, and mythology while emphasizing a warm perspective and hope for the marginalized. Through these narratives, he reflects his desire for comfort and warmth in both his own life and the society.

INTERVIEW | Yuwen Huang

INTERVIEW | Yuwen Huang

Yuwen Huang is a Chinese media artist based in San Francisco, USA. Yuwen works across video, internet, installation, GAN-generated images and videos, blockchain, and creative writing. Through the lens of technology, her art investigates the human relationship with society, the environment, and culture, exploring how these connections have been shaped by technology over time.

INTERVIEW | Charles Chao Wang

INTERVIEW | Charles Chao Wang

Charles Chao Wang is a London-based photographer and artist. His work draws from his own experiences and memories and is influenced by a variety of fields, including sociology, philosophy, and psychology. He offers a powerful social commentary, as well as an opportunity for spiritual healing, enabling both the viewer and the artist to reflect on and respond to societal challenges.

INTERVIEW | Shouhui Lu

INTERVIEW | Shouhui Lu

Shouhui Lu is a Chinese self-taught artist. He believes that the best teacher is nature. He has been committed to the exploration and innovation of paper painting language, creating works with a contemporary spirit on traditional rice paper. He tries to express the problems that tiny individuals are experiencing and encountering in the current society through his works.

INTERVIEW | Tanapol Suriyachottakul

INTERVIEW | Tanapol Suriyachottakul

Tanapol Suriyachottakul is a Thai artist born in 2001 in Bangkok. He approaches his art with a methodical, almost analytical mindset, likening his process to solving equations. Central to his work is the concept of Nihilism, which he portrays through calculated compositions and symbolic objects like mannequins and metallic forms. His paintings construct a world of distorted realities.

INTERVIEW | Chu Ling-Jung

INTERVIEW | Chu Ling-Jung

Chu Ling-Jung, born in Taiwan in 2000, is an artist focused on feminism and consciousness. Her works often explore the unease in women's body shaping and gender perception under a patriarchal society and present these themes through deliberate bodily transformations. Chu Ling-Jung 's creative forms are diverse, including performance art, video, and found objects.

INTERVIEW | Tianyi Zhang

INTERVIEW | Tianyi Zhang

Tianyi Zhang lives and works in Shanghai and Los Angeles. Her work explores patterns of behavior and communication within our over-saturated media and social environment. Through interactive performances, often featuring her own portrait, Zhang emphasizes simple habitual gestures to examine the connection between private and collective experience, cultural pressures, expectations, and identity.

INTERVIEW | Momo

INTERVIEW | Momo

Momo was born in Japan to a Japanese mother and a Ghanaian father. She expresses her identity as a mixed-race person with different backgrounds and her ideology of society behind her work. She explores her unique vision through artistic digital and analog fashion pieces, paintings, and performance shows. Since 2017 she has been living New York City, working as a model.

INTERVIEW | Tianqi Liao

INTERVIEW | Tianqi Liao

Tianqi Liao is a visual artist with a Master of Arts in Arts Administration from Columbia University. As a photographer, she is intrigued by conversations that arise from the friction between societal norms and individual perceptions. Through her lens, she captures the subtle tensions and overt contradictions present in everyday life, to examine themes of conformity and resistance.

INTERVIEW | Xinyu Wo

INTERVIEW | Xinyu Wo

Xinyu Wo is a Chinese visual artist now living in New York. Her art aims to explore the connection between human nature and social reality, triggering viewers to reflect on their inner worlds through visual presentation. By dramatizing images to increase tension and using surrealist techniques to arrange elements, she aims to attract viewers to explore the meanings behind her works. 

INTERVIEW | Wanrong Zhu

INTERVIEW | Wanrong Zhu

Wanrong Zhu is a multimedia visual artist from China and based in London. Her work focuses on the relationship between AI and society. Her latest series, the Dream Series, three distinct works, each delving into different facets of the human psyche—death, inner shadows, and anxiety—drawn from the artist's meticulous collection of 100 recurring dream archives.

INTERVIEW | Yan Yan

INTERVIEW | Yan Yan

Yan Yan is a highly accomplished interdisciplinary designer, focusing her work on critiquing and interpreting the social landscape through the creation of artifacts and narratives infused with critical thinking. For Yan, design is a tool for exploring the truth about the world and the internal universe. Yan's works encourage viewers to reflect on their personal experiences through a systematic and hypothetical lens.

INTERVIEW | Mengjie Mo

INTERVIEW | Mengjie Mo

Mengjie Mo, originally from Yunnan, China, now resides and works in Detroit, U.S. Her life experiences coupled with extensive study and travel,  have instilled in her a critical perspective on societal issues. Mo uses her art as a means to challenge patriarchal norms and blur the boundaries that separate individuals, advocating for a more interconnected and inclusive world.

INTERVIEW | Kangqi Zou

INTERVIEW | Kangqi Zou

Kangqi Zou is a New York-based fashion designer and an esteemed alumna of Parsons School of Design. Her work is recognized for its unique fusion of cultural heritage and contemporary aesthetics, focusing on themes of identity, femininity, and societal roles. Her designs engage in a thoughtful dialogue between form and concept, exploring the nuances of identity and societal roles.

INTERVIEW | Yuehan Hao

INTERVIEW | Yuehan Hao

Yuehan Hao is an artist who focuses on visual creation. Her work takes as its theme the dialectical and contradictory relationship between the stillness of life and the retention of photography. It reflects on the relationship between the mother's death and the changes in family relationships and creates discussions around the correlation between the spiritual consciousness of life and the body's images.