identity

INTERVIEW | Farrah Li

INTERVIEW | Farrah Li

Farrah Li is a Chinese Photographic and Installation artist based in London. Her creative process revolves around the exploration of materials such as balloons, plastic, strings, and fabric, as she seeks to unearth hidden dimensions and identities within them. By manipulating and transforming these materials, she aims to challenge conventional notions and expand the boundaries of perception.

INTERVIEW | Ellis Yu

INTERVIEW | Ellis Yu

Ellis Zhixuan Yu is a multidisciplinary graphic designer and illustrator. She combines in-depth research and dynamic visual language with transmedia storytelling in her works. Ellis explores the vast systems of design, ranging from typography and brand development to intricate visual system mapping. She explores cross-culture conversation and fusion with a particular emphasis on typography and brand identity.

INTERVIEW | Eugene Ofori Agyei

INTERVIEW | Eugene Ofori Agyei

Eugene Ofori Agyei (1993) is a ceramic sculptor, fiber, and installation artist, and an educator originally from Ghana living in Gainesville, Florida. Agyei creates sculptures and installations that incorporate African batik fabrics, yarn, ceramics, and everyday objects filled with personal and cultural meaning to explore cultural identity, belonging, displacement, memories, and place.

INTERVIEW | Jiaxin Jiang

INTERVIEW | Jiaxin Jiang

In the past nine years, Jiang Jiaxin's works have been exploring the documentation and expressiveness of art, revolving around the representation of the narrative and the surreal nature of art. Both relying on images and videos for creation, his works are inseparable from his research on photography in the context of art. In terms of theme, he is interested in self-identity and cultural perception.

INTERVIEW | Tribambuka

INTERVIEW | Tribambuka

Tribambuka (aka Anastasia Beltyukova) is a London-based multidisciplinary artist, award-winning illustrator, and animation director working predominantly in painting and printmaking. Her practice is concerned with the themes of shifting identity, home, and belonging. As a British artist with Russian roots, she takes a critical approach to the complexities of her heritage through a contemporary lens of feminist and mythological thinking.

INTERVIEW | Qinru Zhang

INTERVIEW | Qinru Zhang

New York City-based multimedia artist Qinru Zhang has been exploring identity, femininity, and uncanniness using digital mediums, including 3D animation and mixed reality. Through observing society's sexualization of femininity, Zhang appropriates, détourns, and normalizes feminine stereotypes to challenge existing gender norms. She advocates for freedom of choice in identity representations and calls for female empowerment.

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 | Latifah A Stranack

INTERVIEW | Latifah A Stranack

Latifah A Stranack is an Anglo-Omani artist based in London. Her work is about female empowerment, identity, sisterhood, and intuition. She creates her compositions using archival imagery, historical art references, fashion magazines, and photos of her body or people she knows. Mythology, current affairs, and history also thread their way through her work.

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.

INTERVIEW | Shou-An Chiang

INTERVIEW | Shou-An Chiang

Shou-An Chiang currently lives and works in London. She works across photography, video, performance, and installation, in which she explores the ambiguity of relationships and identities, and portrays alienation in a pluralistic society from her own experience. Her recent project, QUEERASIAN, portrays queer Asian people in Western society, and aims to show the faces and stories of these communities from an insider's perspective.

INTERVIEW | Zijun Zhao (Mosa)

INTERVIEW | Zijun Zhao (Mosa)

Zijun Zhao (Mosa) graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Her work is based on the recognition and pride of her Asian identity and also the conflict between real life and the illusional world. Every drawing is a process of quarreling with herself that she is creating a world without logic but with order, where she has an opportunity to feel safe.

INTERVIEW | Xuemeng Zhang

INTERVIEW | Xuemeng Zhang

Xuemeng Zhang is a visual artist whose practice is driven by exploring connections between the mind and the eye. Her work navigates between identity and culture, belonging and alienation, and apprehension and mindfulness. Zhang was born in Beijing, and currently lives and works in New York City. Her latest project, Other Rooms, is a photographic project on the reconstruction of imaginary spaces.

INTERVIEW | Nora Papp

INTERVIEW | Nora Papp

Nora Papp is a Swiss artist born and based in Zürich, Switzerland. Nora Papp combines her interest in human perception and the digital photographic picture with her investigation of the image as an object. She develops her works with the help of common image processing programmes on the computer, where she collects "aesthetic data" through the dissection of the digital image.

INTERVIEW | LIU ENTUNG

INTERVIEW | LIU ENTUNG

Liu Entung artist from Taipei, Taiwan, and currently lives in New York City. As an interdisciplinary artist, ENTUNG’s works explore the intersection of multiple fields: visual art, performance, and technology with various methods like paintings, photography, performances, installations, videos, and sounds. Through her art practice, LIU shows the relationships between identification, technology, nature, and life.

INTERVIEW | Liza Odinokikh

INTERVIEW | Liza Odinokikh

Liza Odinokikh is a Russian artist, currently living and working in Saint Petersburg. She works in various media, including painting, graphics, and objects. Liza addresses the themes of personal identity and introspection. Through the practice of emotionally figurative therapy, dreams, automatic writing, and other techniques of working with the unconscious, the artist finds evidence of the possibility of influencing and controlling her consciousness.

INTERVIEW | Alicja Klimek

INTERVIEW | Alicja Klimek

Alicja Klimek is a Polish artist, based in Krakow. She delves into the subconsciousness, destroys the false identity, and finds in humans the Truth that flows from the very nature of existence. What you are looking at grows. She sees the potential in this unique time. This is the perfect time to Return To The Inside, in which she follows the Law of the Desert.

INTERVIEW | Andrea Gluckman

INTERVIEW | Andrea Gluckman

Andrea Anderson Gluckman is an international award-winning photographer and writer who uses her platforms of academics, activism, and art to witness and leverage the stories of communities devastated by mass violence. She is currently based out of Rochester, New York, where she teaches and works collaboratively with artistic communities on issues of social justice, indigenous truth-telling, and anti-racism work.

INTERVIEW | Maggie Wen 温馨

INTERVIEW | Maggie Wen 温馨

Maggie Wen 温馨 works mainly with the combination of interview research-based text and photography. She draws a lot of her inspiration from intercultural research. She explores the relationship between words and the environment to understand culture, politics, economics’ influence over human life, and the driving forces behind decisions.

INTERVIEW | Suridh Das-Hassan

INTERVIEW | Suridh Das-Hassan

Visual artist Suridh Das-Hassan focus on cultural and ethnic identity as well as memory and movement, particularly within the urban environment. Traditionally, Suridh's work has been about documentation, investigation, and collaboration. His ongoing series Reconstruction Of Self (i) is an intensely personal journey through family, power, colonialism and identity.

INTERVIEW | Shazia Ahmad

INTERVIEW | Shazia Ahmad

Shazia Ahmad’s practice and research interests are centered on the notions of home and belonging, tied to the broader theme of otherness due to her interfaith and mixed-race background. Her latest project, A Year, A Garden, A Feeling (COVID19 Diary), is a personal and semi-autobiographical series.