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.
Yichan Wang is a visual designer based in New York City. She enjoys translating complex ideas into captivating stories. With a career spanning brand, web, and motion design, she crafts compelling experiences that leave a lasting impression. Her latest projects include Results and The Wanderer motion designs, as well as branding and web design for international clients.
Aleksandra Vizin is a creative director and photographer living in Sarajevo. Aleksandra has a direct, somewhat raw approach to photography with limited use of postproduction techniques. She prefers shaping imagination with reality, choosing contrast as a main tool. Using costumes, creating stories, and developing characters, Aleksandra tries to keep elements of surprise, freedom, and uniqueness.
Zheng Wu is an experimental filmmaker born and raised in China before moving to the USA. Her works range from realistic to abstract and always involve social issues, philosophy, poetry, and photography. She dives into traditional narrative filmmaking and explores experimental filmmaking, art installation, multi-media, and video art, focusing on contemporary youth's thoughts and their rebellion against reality.
Jikke Lesterhuis is a multidisciplinary artist from the Netherlands, currently based in Amsterdam. She never stopped drawing from the moment she learned how to use a pencil. Jikke currently focuses on ways to bring the 2D medium into a 3D space. Using her curiosity and eagerness to learn, she keeps discovering new sides of herself that reflect in her work.
Sarvesh is an architect, writer, and multi-disciplinary designer based in India. His inspiration stems from the emergent antithesis of a definitive style and spills over from environmental design to cartography, storytelling, media, sculpture, installation, film, interactive world-building, and more. He has contributed so far to diverse project scales and typologies in parts of India, Africa, and America.
With a belief that there lie important and revolutionary stories from those that go unheard, Arani Halder uses her work to open windows into the lives of different people and the broader socio-political movements that help shape them. Her work explores the connections between language, culture, pluralism, autonomy, and the power of knowing one’s roots, through media such as bookmaking, bookbinding, printmaking, painting, sculpture, and even cooking.
Paria Peyravi is an illustrator and designer from Iran. When a story comes to an end, the storytelling begins. For a storyteller, it is only the beginning of imagination, exploration, and ideation. A new project is a new chance to discover an inner voice and the world outside. A new story is a chance to create an intersection of words, imagination, and perception.
Wei Ting Chen was born in Tainan, he uses a lot of childhood memories and symbolic figures such as teddy bears, antique toys, intuitive graffiti drawings, costume characters, and so on. With a background in literature, his painting started as diary recordings, which tend to be in a written form. In order to seek more opportunities for exchange with artists and new projects, he currently lives and works in Tokyo.
Dhanny 'Danot' Sanjaya is a visual artist from Indonesia. His long-term art project, Ichthyhumanology Institute, is a fictional institution that presents studies on the natural relationship between humans, fish and the sea. He offers research methods as a medium to re-examine how we position ourselves within the environment with other organisms.
José Luis Ramírez is a Mexican painter, currently based in Durango, Mexico. One of the characteristics of his work is a sense of freedom, so his artwork is surrounded by key characters from his daily life as a group of random characters who tell their own story but at the same time, they combine into one, creating a deconstructed social analysis that critiques our time.
Photography always has been for Eric Pijnaken a way to find his way to the world of phenomena in which he lives. He felt the need to reveal another reality within the reality surrounding us. His photo work focuses on the essentials of what he sees. After a career as a journalist, he now lives and works in the French province of Ardèche, where he can freely enjoy his work as a photographer.
Salomé Tamayo’s characters humorously celebrate the inconsistencies and peculiarities of social cannons. She plays with abstract and existential concepts to give concrete depictions of people being and living in their own way. By observing people, she looks for characters and stories entwined in everyday life. The collection is meant to bring people together through the real and the raw.
