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.
Chen Wenwei approaches photography as a speculative language rather than a mere annotative reproduction of reality. Influenced by her background in editorial design, she utilises photography as a structural tool to investigate how memory, materiality, and power structures intertwine within built spaces, revealing themselves through light, circulation, signage, and boundaries.
Murphy Nile (Ziling Zhou) is a transmedia artist. His practice combines simulated 3D narrative environments with interactive audiovisual experiences, focusing on attention choreography and screen-based spatial dramaturgy. Through dystopian and absurd digital landscapes, he explores causal prediction, techno-fantasy, historical reinterpretation, reflecting on the alienation embedded in technology.
As an artist and fashion designer, Wenyu Zheng’s practice explores the interplay of materials, focusing on their inherent properties, limitations, and emotional qualities. Fragment is an ongoing core methodology in the practice of Wenyu Zheng, focusing on how structures born from rupture generate meaning. At the center, clusters of hands reach upward in varied gestures, embodying longing.
Yulun Liu is an architect and digital artist based in Chicago whose work explores the intricate relationship between nature, architecture, and human well-being. Inspired by the resilience of abandoned landscapes and the therapeutic potential of natural environments, her practice focuses on creating immersive experiences that blur the boundaries between art and architecture.
Pei-Yao Chang is a Taiwan-born media artist and researcher currently working between London and Taiwan. Her practice explores space(s) and the implications of embodied experiences, drawing from both the gravitational pull of the land and the weightless journey of freediving. Fascinated by sensation, movement, and perception, she investigates the concept of embodied cognition.
Shin-Rung Yang is an artist and spatial designer based in Los Angeles and Taipei. Her multidisciplinary approach, drawing on her academic background in art and architecture, explores diverse ways of experiencing space. Her projects delve into themes of urban environments, memory, and spatial perception, examining both the psychological and physical dimensions of spaces.
Connor Daly is a British fine art photographer from Jersey (Channel Islands), currently based in the UK. His work explores varying levels of colour and compositional effects that provoke spatial ambiguity, using a painterly and abstract style that is evocative of nostalgia, memory, and the passing of time. Furthermore, his work is predominantly concerned with the depiction of a space, exploring broad visual styles.
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.
