Renowned for their versatility and innovative use of mixed media, Chen Yang specializes in digital media art, moving images, as well as painting and sculpture installations. Their creative practice is characterized by a multidisciplinary approach, through which they investigate and articulate the nuanced dialogues between human societies and their habitats.
Xinyu Zhang, also known as DayDay, is a contemporary artist originally from Wuhan, Hubei, China, and currently based in New York. Drawing inspiration from daily observations, existential reflections, and a relentless curiosity to explore diverse materials, Xinyu's art is distinguished by minimalist lines and symbols, continually seeking a delicate balance between design principles and fine art.
Delphine Cuelenaere is driven by curiosity in both subject and method. The technique of woodcarving gives her the opportunity to be surprised by the material. Open-minded departures from the unknown and a radical openness to not knowing what will come are the essence of her artistic process. Slowly and unpredictably, scenes emerge in which voyeur and protagonist, spectator and artist, intertwine.
Jiangshengyu Nova Pan is a moving image and installation artist, currently based in Baltimore (USA). work focuses on human mobility. Working from the perspective of the individual, Pan’s work explores the profound transformations of space, power relations, and social networks faced by a mobile population through sculptures and videos, appropriating everyday life scenes based on her semi-fictional writings.
Jiaming You is a painter and installation artist based in Chicago. You utilizes found imagery and photos taken by themselves to construct scenes of bodies in non-existent scenarios as an attempt to critique the limiting nature of social norms in depicting individuality and uses their experience and positionality as a non-binary immigrant as a source of knowledge and site of exploration to the confines of social norms and the distribution of power.
Chicago-based visual artist and hybrid designer Xiaodong Ma was born in Nanjing, China, in 1991. In the interplay between dimensions, Xiaodong Ma found his canvas for exploration. The art practice of translation between 2D and 3D is fertile ground for experimenting with unknown outcomes, challenging viewers to see and experience familiar forms in unexpected ways.
Nadia Armouti is an artist and researcher based in London, UK, and Seoul, Korea. She creates experiences that bring visibility to both self-imposed limitations and alternative pathways to personal fulfillment. By forcing her audience to make choices and then reflect on them, she invites a level of awareness to everyday decision-making and crafts her practice with an intent to thoughtfully impact each individual with personalized and lasting effects.
Phyllis Wong is a visual artist and architect based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The Factory is an ongoing series that serves to critique the effects of industrial dairy farming through a collection of narrated still life. Its compositions showcase information and data related to the production in the years 2019 and 2020 and translate various specifications and statistics, illustrated by coloured rings.
Mallory’s work focuses on collecting and ritual. In the Flowers of the Anthropocene series, she plays the role of an artist / pseudo-naturalist, for she does not create the flowers. She finds them in the waterways created by the forces of nature and clips the flowers to photograph them back in her studio.
Belgian brothers Nicolas, Gilles, and Gregory are the creative minds behind the art collective Leroy Brothers. Their platform “Witness Your World” is an internet-based workflow that creates user-generated artworks and NFTs, mashed up by automated algorithms and AI. Pictures and messages are submitted by the users and integrated into the creation of the works, functioning as an instant mirror of society.
Minh Vinh is an American artist based in San Francisco. His work involves a mixture of illustration and design techniques. The artist has devised a number of concepts with various iterations to be a part of the subsequent choosing. The resulting creations were the products of several rounds of shooting and revising physical-world graphic layouts. The pictures that he presents are his personal narratives and commentaries.
Xiao He is a multidisciplinary artist focusing on painting and visual communication design. In her works, Xiao records ordinary life moments such as soaking in the warm bathtub as well as random conversations that she had with a stranger in Mexico. Consciousness the magician would fabricate these fragments together, and she records them faithfully, in the form of paintings and artist's books.
Andreea is an award-winning architectural & landscape architectural designer and researcher. "After Plastics: The Gardens of the Glacial Foreland" is a transitional landscape – from glacial to post-glacial. The project questions the potential emergence of microplastic particles in the most pristine places on Earth over the next two centuries and the imminent implications on landscape systems and their formation.
Patrícia Pinheiro de Sousa is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She works with multiple mediums and disciplines, such as video, text-based works, performance, sound, and self-published books. She is interested in fragmented landscapes and how incomplete narratives affect collective memory, while her latest projects reflect an interest in future landscapes.
Kinnari Saraiya is an Indian artist based in the UK. Having grown up with the stories of the colonial empire told by her grandfather, she is fascinated by the physical evidence of this history in the landscape of India and England. It voices a counterculture of stories which depicts the dysfunctions of the world and forces a new type of meaning to be created through her work.
