Interviews Platform

INTERVIEW | Yasuaki Matsuura

INTERVIEW | Yasuaki Matsuura

Yasuaki Matsuura is a Tokyo-based contemporary artist whose practice centres on the theme of “new memory.” He uses the camera, its form, function, and cultural role, not just as a tool, but as both subject and medium. His works invite users to slow down, to look, and to feel the presence of time and others. Each camera is not just a device, but a proposition.

INTERVIEW | Kewei Zhao

INTERVIEW | Kewei Zhao

Kewei Zhao is a designer and founder of Studio ZKW in New York. Her work is defined by a poetic approach to form, a commitment to craftsmanship, and a deep interest in material exploration. Blurring the boundaries between furniture, sculpture, and textile, she creates objects that are both functionally grounded and conceptually unique.

INTERVIEW | Yanhua Feng

INTERVIEW | Yanhua Feng

Yanhua Feng is a Chinese-born artist based in San Francisco, with studios in Vancouver and Beijing. Working in acrylic on canvas, she constructs layered surfaces that hold contradiction. While abstract, her work is rooted in the emotional architecture of contemporary life, its intimacy and instability. Female bodies, domestic space, and unspoken gestures are all recurring themes.

INTERVIEW | Elizabeth Glazko

INTERVIEW | Elizabeth Glazko

Elizabeth Glazko is a Los Angeles–based photographer and visual artist specialising in cinematic portraiture and stylised visual storytelling. With over a decade of experience, she has built a practice that bridges the worlds of film, fashion, and fine art. Wolfilm, her ongoing body of work, s a personal archive of moments suspended between memory and fiction, shaped more by feeling than fact.

INTERVIEW | Yiqing Lei

INTERVIEW | Yiqing Lei

Yiqing Lei is a nomadic artist currently landed in Shenzhen. Intention, labour and wandering are important to their practice. Yiqing’s practice involves the eradication and reimagining of past roots and being. They articulate words, sculptures, photos, and actions to create a symbiotic total, which is often obsessed with the ephemera, fragmented, atmospheric landscape.

INTERVIEW | Lili Xie

INTERVIEW | Lili Xie

Lili Xie engages with the realms of photography, video, performance, and ceramics in her artistic practice. The evolution of her work is an ongoing journey of self-exploration, inquiry, and the deconstruction of her own identity. Through these diverse mediums, she navigates the complex landscape of personal introspection and transformation.

INTERVIEW | Ruonan Shen

INTERVIEW | Ruonan Shen

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.

INTERVIEW | Rose Ansari

INTERVIEW | Rose Ansari

Rose Ansari is an Iranian multidisciplinary artist, creative technologist, and computational media researcher. Her research-based art practice explores cyborg and post-human theories, sensory distortion, and telecommunication through laboratory-driven processes. She creates immersive environments that blend technology, cognitive science, and poetic expression.

INTERVIEW | Yixuan Nie

INTERVIEW | Yixuan Nie

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.

INTERVIEW | Ollie Hongji Li

INTERVIEW | Ollie Hongji Li

Ollie Hongji Li is a fiber artist and textile designer based in New York City. Drawing inspiration from nature and religion, Ollie creates textile sculpture using knotting, knitting, crocheting, spinning, and natural dye. Ollie's art reinterprets the traditional yin-yang dichotomy and offers a new perspective on gender roles.

INTERVIEW | Chen Yiting

INTERVIEW | Chen Yiting

Chen Yiting is a visual artist, illustrator, and ecological narrative researcher, who currently lives and works in Beijing. Chen Yiting's visual language is known for its gentle, restrained, yet powerful style. Skillfully blending watercolour and digital media, her work emphasizes quiet, poetic contemplation rather than dazzling visual effects, guiding viewers to reconnect with nature's rhytm.

INTERVIEW | Yicheng Zhu

INTERVIEW | Yicheng Zhu

Yicheng Zhu is a freelance multidisciplinary visual artist. She frequently draws inspiration from real-world references and, influenced by her Chinese heritage, often incorporates elements of Chinese culture into her work. Whether it's a futuristic cityscape, a post-apocalyptic wasteland, or an ancient sacred ruin, Yicheng brings each world to life with fresh and compelling visual storytelling.

INTERVIEW | Zj Pan

INTERVIEW | Zj Pan

Zj Pan lives and works in Chicago, US. Pan works with sculpture, performance, and new media, meditating and investigating the uncanniness of our modern human condition. Working to resist the shocks and simulations in everyday life, he uses animation and humour to transform and demystify objects. Pan animates objects' forms and functions in a DIY approach with sculptural sensibilities.

INTERVIEW | Kimin Kim

INTERVIEW | Kimin Kim

Kimin Kim is a Korean-born painter currently living in Brooklyn, New York. His practice centres around the intersection of botanical symbolism, historical memory, and the ritualized navigation of grief. He engages flora as both symbolic vessels and ritualized objects, drawing on their presence in Korean shamanic ceremonies, funerary traditions, and ancient tombs.

INTERVIEW | Sharon Yaoxi He

INTERVIEW | Sharon Yaoxi He

Sharon Yaoxi He is a renowned Chinese-Canadian painter based in New York City and New Jersey. Informed by philosophical inquiry and classical artistic traditions, Sharon Yaoxi He’s paintings offer a compelling reimagination of space. Rather than treating space as a fixed, measurable entity, she approaches it as a dynamic, psychological experience shaped by perception.

INTERVIEW | Zoya Taseva

INTERVIEW | Zoya Taseva

Zoya Taseva is a multimedia artist with a background in spatial design. Originally from Sofia, Bulgaria, she is currently based in Groningen. Her practice explores innovative ways of connecting with the public by transforming spectators into active participants. Working at the intersection of interactive media, spatial design, and technology, she creates immersive environments.

INTERVIEW | Tianxi Wang

INTERVIEW | Tianxi Wang

Tianxi Wang is a freelance artist based in London. Her practice grows from the fertile soil of familial memory, tracing invisible currents of tension and emotional residue within intimate bonds. Experimenting with oil paint, acrylic, oil sticks, and collages, Tianxi experiments with textures and techniques to bring artistic visions to life, trying to expand the possibilities of material.

INTERVIEW | Raizel Pauline Albano

INTERVIEW | Raizel Pauline Albano

Raizel Pauline Albano is an applied anthropologist from the Philippines, currently serving as the founder-director of Anthro on Foot Audio Walking Tours and a writing consultant for UNICEF Philippines. Her practice is rooted in breaking social barriers and democratizing access to quality educational and cultural heritage materials.

INTERVIEW | Lexiong Ying

INTERVIEW | Lexiong Ying

Lexiong Ying is an interdisciplinary artist working across multiple visual media. Her practice is driven by a critical engagement with contemporary society, drawing upon personal experiences and an acute awareness of the evolving social landscape. Her work explores themes such as the fragility of human relationships, the illusions of consumerism, ecological consciousness, and animal welfare.

INTERVIEW | Huiya Zhang

INTERVIEW | Huiya Zhang

Huiya Zhang is an independent fashion designer based in China, and the founder and planner of the fashion creative platform H.Y FASHION STUDIO. Her clothing design language integrates emotional narrative and material experimentation, dedicated to breaking the shackles of perfectionism and constructing a genuine and powerful visual expression between softness and imbalance.