Surrealism

INTERVIEW | Agnieszka Stopyra

INTERVIEW | Agnieszka Stopyra

Agnieszka Stopyra (born in 1988) is an illustrator and graphic designer. In her fashion illustrations, she combines an expressive use of lines and subtle patches of colour, and in her graphic designs, she uses collage and combines it with surrealism and pop art, which she absolutely loves. The main theme in both these spheres is a woman with a whole spectrum of emotions, anxieties, inspirations, and her own micro-worlds.

INTERVIEW | Caroline Kampfraath

INTERVIEW | Caroline Kampfraath

Caroline Kampfraath is a Dutch sculptor from Amsterdam. Her works consist primarily of elements that she fuses into the total artwork, often thematic pieces and installations. Caroline is socially driven, both as a person and as an artist. In her work, she highlights the urgency and impact of global crises, which are currently upon us and permeate our collective consciousness.

INTERVIEW | Song Lu

INTERVIEW | Song Lu

Song Lu is an artist born in Guizhou, China, in 1994. As a visual artist currently based in Shanghai, Song Lu's creative practice primarily focuses on photography, video, and 3D animation. Through her works, she explores and expresses a range of emotions and feelings, often incorporating elements of humor, surrealism, and childlike wonder in a playful and whimsical style.

INTERVIEW | Emmanuelle Becker

INTERVIEW | Emmanuelle Becker

Emmanuelle Becker is a visual artist and photographer based in Paris. Emmanuelle Becker's photographic work explores the selective nature of memory and the impact of emotions on how the brain prioritizes and retains information. Becker has an intimist look at her subjects to create her singular dreamlike imagery. Her fascination with dreams and the unconscious is at the heart of her creative process.

INTERVIEW | Jing Zhao

INTERVIEW | Jing Zhao

Jing Zhao is Chinese artist, born in Shanghai and currently based in Brooklyn, New York. explores ideological transformations in this time of accelerated information circulation and cultural diaspora. Zhao was trained as a photographer, and her research-based practice is rooted in the tradition of conceptual art. As a result, she works across a broad range of mediums.

INTERVIEW | Rodrigo de Toledo

INTERVIEW | Rodrigo de Toledo

Rodrigo de Toledo is a Brazilian-American multidisciplinary visual artist, graphic designer, and a tenured animation professor at Northern Arizona University. Inspired by ancient mythological archetypes, de Toledo’s work is a fictional mythology with its visual iconography. Employing a primitive pop-surreal graphic style, he investigates questions of identity and spirituality, as well as the media’s effect on personal memory and fantasy.

INTERVIEW | Pepe Hidalgo

INTERVIEW | Pepe Hidalgo

Pepe Hidalgo’s style is figurative and abstract narrative. His figurative is not related to realism, and it is created from his imagination. Art has allowed him to “free himself” and express himself without prejudice and to dare to do what he feels without expectations. In his work, he mixes his knowledge of astrology, mythology, history, life, and experiences.

INTERVIEW | Caitlin Smith

INTERVIEW | Caitlin Smith

Caitlin is a multidisciplinary surrealist completing her master's degree at the University of Sunderland. Working with a plethora of mediums, Smith favours relief printmaking processes & painting, acrylic being her preferred choice. At present, her practice explores the figurative narrative of the internalised femme fatale, conjuring fragmented paintings and prints.

INTERVIEW | Ashling (Yaxin) Tu

INTERVIEW | Ashling (Yaxin) Tu

Ashling (Yaxin) Tu is a Chinese Illustrator, Designer, and sculptor, living in the USA. Ashling primarily works on a digital pad for 2d arts. Her 3d sculptures are, in contrast, mainly built from natural materials and existing objects she picks up on the street. The young artist believes both reality and the digital world are as important in the current human society.

INTERVIEW | Taweechob Pinthong

INTERVIEW | Taweechob Pinthong

Taweechob Pinthong is an artist and illustrator based in Bangkok. His illustration translates the unwavering love you feel for all living things without question, that you extend knowingly without expectations for anything in return. His style and technique are very dynamic because he is still in the process of experimenting. His body of work based on philosophy seeks to understand fundamental truths.

INTERVIEW | Yannie Gu

INTERVIEW | Yannie Gu

The subject of Yannie Gu’s artworks concentrates on exploring women’s self-identities as well as human psychological activities while facing collective and personal traumas. Lying between realistic and representational artistic styles, Yannie’s paintings capture vibrant figures in a variety of actions that further reflect women’s deeper insecurities and uneasiness through a voyeuristic lens.

INTERVIEW | Ayuna

INTERVIEW | Ayuna

Ayuna guides the people into her works through personas. In addition, she expresses the nature that exists as it is, that natural process of winding and unwinding, and the weak and the strong in an effort to make a barrier against the violence she got through. Through such a process, she would save herself. She also wishes that somebody who views her works would be empowered to live in this violent world.

INTERVIEW | Rafael Triana

INTERVIEW | Rafael Triana

Rafael Triana is a multidisciplinary artist. He was born in Cuba, but currently works and lives in Paris. His latest series, PARALLEL, is a series of digital illustrations that respond to current human relations issues. This series addresses the difference, opposites, and social inequalities and seeks a link to connect to contemporary times. He sees his art as a defense mechanism against reality to combat the circumstances of life.

INTERVIEW | Chao Wang

INTERVIEW | Chao Wang

Originally from Hangzhou, China, Chao Wang is an artist who now works from New York. Her works are characterized by the presence of both organic and artificial elements, in a fusion that explores the human relationship with technology. Chao Wang is interested in how human-being interact with an increasingly technological society, exploring this through intriguing motifs.

INTERVIEW | Yijun Ge

INTERVIEW | Yijun Ge

Yijun Ge is a Chinese artist based in San Francisco. Yin and Yang are the basis of her visual language, representing passion and calmness. The contrast creates balance and tension, often represented through warm and cool colors. The elements that show up in her dreams, such as spiders, sailboats, cats, and dragons, help create a painting's theme. They are a unique symbolic language representing larger concepts.

INTERVIEW | Abhay Sehgal

INTERVIEW | Abhay Sehgal

Abhay Sehgal is an Indian-born contemporary artist based in Miami. He focuses on the style of Surrealism by interpreting dreams and psychology. The outputs in Abhay's piece act as a bridge between his intended thoughts and the audience's perspective, which gives it an ambiguous narrative.

INTERVIEW | Nicola Barth

INTERVIEW | Nicola Barth

Nicola Barth is dealing with permanent metamorphic processes in non-obvious areas. Her work can be understood as an insight into a temporally and spatially limited development process section. Sculptures and manipulated photos complement painting and drawing mainly in oil. The content follows the same principle and is as abstract and surreal as her paintings. There is indeed a world behind this world. And it's constantly moving.

INTERVIEW | Mario Devcic

INTERVIEW | Mario Devcic

Mario Devcic is a sculptor from Croatia. He is a member of International Surrealism now - the largest exhibition of surrealism in the world - and the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism. His work was published in more than 200 newspapers and portals worldwide, from BBC to Times Square giants screen.

INTERVIEW | Vanlawrenc

INTERVIEW | Vanlawrenc

Contemporary surrealist digital images. Lawrance is an artist, designer, and photographer based in Indonesia. Self-taught, Evan began to explore and turned his intricate feeling into a surreal vision mixed along with his ambiguous perspective on reality. The delusion of the beautiful things inspires his work till the weird moments, represents by the emotional feeling of himself.