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.
Doug Winter is a semi-sighted North American conceptual photographic artist and filmmaker whose artworks focus on the preoccupation of light and non-figurative forms. Doug's non-representational photographs of conventional objects and their environments are derived from the human body's resilience to adapt and accommodate a physical disability and emotional trauma.
Ruonan Shen is a visual artist and photographer based in London. Her work engages with gender expression and transformation, focusing on China’s emerging drag scene as a lens through which to question the boundaries of beauty, strength, and self-presentation. Shen creates highly staged environments that balance intimacy and control, presence and absence.
Yixuan Nie is a rising multidisciplinary artist and fashion designer based in New York, whose work has been celebrated for its bold narrative power and innovative vision. Originally from Beijing, she draws profound inspiration from the layered textures of hutong life, infusing them with global relevance and artistic depth. She also works across styling, printmaking, and illustration.
Andrea Ghidorzi, the mind behind Moan Studios, has created an artistic dimension where analogue and digital art converge through introspection, exploration and a look toward the future. Andrea's practice explores identity, perception and the evolving dialogue between the self and its environment. He approaches images, sound and mixed media as instruments for navigating inner transformations.
Natalia Oginskaya (b. 1980, Moscow) is an artist and mosaicist. For her, mosaic is a medium that resists haste. Each “imperfection” becomes a sign of life. This slowness allows her to address themes of inner strength, resilience, and freedom. Her mosaics are meditations on human dignity: the right to imperfection, the beauty of fragility, and the value of a slower gaze upon the world.
Mahta Salehi is an Iranian artist currently living in the US. In her recent paintings investigate psychological transformation and the tension between confinement and freedom by combining abstraction and figuration and using symbolic imagery. In her work, she uses experimental techniques and layered compositions to encourage viewers to interact with the shifting nature of psychological landscapes.
China-born, London-based Keyi Liu is a Multimedia artist and Illustrator. Her works often take the confrontational relationship between human nature and societal rules as a starting point, analyzing the changes in human psychology under the oppression of various societal issues. The Last Dream series is a collection of illustrations created during the 2021 pandemic, exploring my reflections on constraints and freedom.
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.
Stella Guan is a queer, non-binary 20-year-old from Brooklyn, New York. Currently, Stella is majoring in Fine Arts and minoring in Creative Writing at the American University of Paris. Additionally, they are pursuing a career as a tattoo artist. By translating deeply rooted, emotionally scarring experiences and memories into their paintings, Stella challenges themselves and their viewers to delve into the most horrifying, bitter, and hurt parts of themselves.
