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INTERVIEW | Michail Parlamas

INTERVIEW | Michail Parlamas

Michail Parlamas is a Greek painter, based in Athens. He studied in London at Central Martins College of Art before returning to Greece. Michail’s portraits are trapped between the physical and the digital world. He obsessively devotes himself to depictions of asymmetrical patterns with the aim of exposing and eventually familiarizing the public with diversity and non-conventional beauty.

INTERVIEW | Erika Thomas

INTERVIEW | Erika Thomas

Erika Thomas is a Brazilian artist, currently based in France since the 1980s. As an artist, Erika Thomas sees artistic creation as a profound connection to oneself, others, and the world. In her current presentation, she incorporates dance, exploring the body's relationship to space, poems that delve into language and its connection to meaning, and video, a crucial contemporary medium interwoven with music.

INTERVIEW | Via Li

INTERVIEW | Via Li

Via Li, a painter based in Cupertino, CA, is passionately dedicated to capturing the intricate emotions of women and addressing the daily challenges and injustices they grapple with. The artist employs women as conduits for exploring emotions as a tangible form of energy. Via's paintings possess a dual nature—simultaneously tenderly beautiful and poignantly compelling.

INTERVIEW | Jessalyn Finch

INTERVIEW | Jessalyn Finch

Jessalyn Finch has been a visual artist since 2009. Post-pandemic, Finch continued to focus on the conceptual work of body perception and voyeurism. Her body of work combines large-scale drawing and sculpture to investigate our experiences and perceptions of the human body. Her current work explores body dysmorphia, identity, and sense of self. The themes are meant to be a catalyst for discussion and connection through shared experience.

INTERVIEW | Joanna Hoge

INTERVIEW | Joanna Hoge

Joanna Hoge (she/they) is a queer artist and designer based in Denver, Colorado. They apply their background in psychology and interest in medicine to create works that explore the dynamic between subjective identity and objectifiable body. Hoge's work is largely inspired by the division of somatic and psychological experiences in Western culture.

INTERVIEW | Se Young Yim

INTERVIEW | Se Young Yim

Se Young Yim is a New York-based painter and sculptor, originally from Seoul, South Korea. Her artistic practice is centered around the exploration of the vulnerable physicality of the body and the representation of intimate moments or places imbued with an eerie quality. Through her art, she seeks to capture the fragile nature of humans. Her work oscillates between concealing and revealing, always with a subtle sense.

INTERVIEW | Rymma Vinogradova

INTERVIEW | Rymma Vinogradova

Rymma Vinogradova is a Ukrainian contemporary artist working in the style of figurative art based in Basel, Switzerland. In her artistic practice, Rymma explores how the cultural heritage is being transformed by current trends of human development, how it changes into new forms and reveals itself in new ways of contemporary conditions. Art, for her, is a path and a way to be heard.

INTERVIEW | Massimiliano Cambuli

INTERVIEW | Massimiliano Cambuli

Massimiliano Cambuli is a photographer who lives and works between Brussels (Belgium) and Cagliari (Italy). His recent body of work focuses on nudity, which is not the core of his works but rather a phase: “just a narrative ploy,” he says. In a mix of exploration, experimentation, and research, he pushed these works to the extreme borders of graphisms to transfigure reality and drive the viewer beyond aestheticisms.

INTERVIEW | Alisa Scetinina - Gaisma

INTERVIEW | Alisa Scetinina - Gaisma

Alisa Scetinina is a performer and musician, born in Latvia and currently based in Berlin, Germany. For Alisa, performance is the way one carries oneself and connects to the inner voice, whether it is through music, dance, film, or any other source of expression. She explores the fluidity and smoothness of our psyche and body, not scared to break the walls that we and our society have built for us.

INTERVIEW | Chaney Manshu Diao

INTERVIEW | Chaney Manshu Diao

Chaney Manshu Diao is an artist and poet whose practice explores the concept of identity from the lens of trans* (-gender, -human, -bodies) and queer studies through body, linguistics, and movement. By considering the body as a mobilised site entering in and out of geographical boundaries, Chaney explores the meaning of being inter/national, multi/cultural; community, and otherness; as well as the construction of Asianness.