Mixed Media

INTERVIEW | Carlos Almenar Diaz

INTERVIEW | Carlos Almenar Diaz

Venezuelan-born artist Carlos Almenar Diaz is a French-Australian citizen who has won multiple awards as an established banknote designer and contemporary artist. Carlos believes that the dynamism between the design concepts, chromatic theories, and the printing process makes a perfect synergy between visual design and art. His artwork continues to explore and investigate these optical experiments.

INTERVIEW | Hee Sook Kim

INTERVIEW | Hee Sook Kim

Hee Sook Kim is an accomplished visual artist who has gained recognition for her work across the world. Kim has been the recipient of several prizes and she also had a site-specific installation at the Philadelphia International Airport. She participated in several solo and group exhibitions internationally and currently, she is a Professor in the Fine Arts Department at Haverford College, Pennsylvania.

INTERVIEW | Rubén González Escudero

INTERVIEW | Rubén González Escudero

Rubén González Escudero was born in Madrid in 1979, and based in Berlin since 2007. His work revolves around the concept of environment from a very broad approach, which would include not only the physical aspect but also the cultural and even technological aspects. It examines the complexity of urban spaces, social and cultural structures, and how they interact with each other.

INTERVIEW | Hall'Makwanda

INTERVIEW | Hall'Makwanda

Hall'Makwanda is a collective composed of Julia Hall and Matisse Makwanda, both of whom are transdisciplinary artists. Their individual work led them to explore artistic collaboration in 2016. With a keen interest in symbolism, experimental languages, and new media, the duo explores the realms of alchemy and active spirituality; each creation serves as an opportunity to delve into the multidimensionality of human existence.

INTERVIEW | Urilic

INTERVIEW | Urilic

Urilic (Nan) is a highly talented graphic designer, visual artist, and UX designer passionate about exploring and re-imagining traditional nomadic culture through her work. She is driven to find innovative ways to bridge cultural divides and bring people together. Her designs are centered around visual appeal, user experience, systems, and technology and are a testament to her expertise in the field.

INTERVIEW | Ivad Bassil

INTERVIEW | Ivad Bassil

From mixed media on canvas, wooden sculptures, and murals to digital graphic art and photography, Ivad Bassil tells his story in various forms and shapes. His artwork is constantly evolving, driven by tireless personal quests and an unbound curiosity for new techniques. In his latest series, Wonderland, he captured the negative energy of the lockdown and transformed it into Beauty, Construction, Positivity, and Dialogue.

INTERVIEW | Evelyn Möcking

INTERVIEW | Evelyn Möcking

Evelyn Möcking is an interdisciplinary artist based in Düsseldorf, Germany. She works with drawings, sculptures, sounds, and installations. Experimenting with materials and methods from science and nature.. The starting point of her artistic practice is the search for phenomena from nature, science, and art and the investigation of the respective materials on their inherent aesthetics.

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 | Liao Qian

INTERVIEW | Liao Qian

Liao Qian 廖倩 (they/them) is a glass artist based in Brooklyn, NY. As a chronic trauma survivor, Chinese non-binary, bilingual & multicultural creative, Joss is devoted to making space and taking space in the form of art. As a survivor of domestic violence, socio-political trauma, and sexual assault, Joss aims to inspire shared tenderness and radical vulnerability.

INTERVIEW | Rebecca Yunjeong Lee

INTERVIEW | Rebecca Yunjeong Lee

Rebecca Yunjeong Lee is Korean born artist, originally from Seoul, South Korea. Yunjeong's work is a reflection of the past. Inspired by trauma suffered as a young person, her work is a self-portrait viewed through the lens of traumatic memory and is part of the process of moving forward with her life. Louise Borgeois, Tracey Emin and Francis Bacon all influenced the works, which were Yunjeong's first foray into using digital applications to create art.

INTERVIEW | Arani Halder

INTERVIEW | Arani Halder

With a belief that there lie important and revolutionary stories from those that go unheard, Arani Halder uses her work to open windows into the lives of different people and the broader socio-political movements that help shape them. Her work explores the connections between language, culture, pluralism, autonomy, and the power of knowing one’s roots, through media such as bookmaking, bookbinding, printmaking, painting, sculpture, and even cooking.

INTERVIEW | Marija Toskovic

INTERVIEW | Marija Toskovic

Marija Toskovic's work is based on an abstract “self-landscape,” which aims to redefine the perception of an external projection of the inner identity. She is interested in exploring the idea of (im)permanence of the “other side” on the horizon and in the landscape, which defines the immutability of intimate geography in her work.

INTERVIEW | Lana Eileen

INTERVIEW | Lana Eileen

Lana Eileen is an artist, photographer, and musician who creates original sculptures, creatures, and puppets by hand, as well as photographic and mixed media work. Her work combines elements of fantasy and magic realism, inspired by her research into world mythology and folklore. Originally from Australia, Lana has lived in many different places. Most recently, she is based in Auckland, New Zealand.

INTERVIEW | Christine Comeau

INTERVIEW | Christine Comeau

Christine Comeau is a visual artist and cultural worker. Her practice is based on multidisciplinary installation, sculpture, and living poetry. Her research focuses on mobility, exile, constraint, and the physical and mental boundaries created by travel. Current tropes in her work are the tent, a portable shelter that accompanies us on our travels, and clothes. She lives and works in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.

INTERVIEW | Darya Fard

INTERVIEW | Darya Fard

Darya M. Fard is a multidisciplinary artist from Iran, currently based in the USA. She has a very strong interest in visual art, especially printmaking, drawing, and painting, intersecting with other mediums like photography, video, installation, sound, and dance. Her work examines universal connection through creating metaphorical and symbolic mythical creatures inspired by Persian poetry and mythology.

INTERVIEW | The2vvo

INTERVIEW | The2vvo

The2vvo is an artist duo from Kazakhstan currently living between Berlin and Los Angeles, made up of Eldar Tagi (sound art) and Lena Pozdnyakova (sculpture, architecture, visual arts). The duo explores the complicated dynamics between cultures and spaces, objects and processes through sound, sculpting, visual art, and performance.

INTERVIEW | Luc Vandervelde

INTERVIEW | Luc Vandervelde

Luc Vandervelde Lux is a Belgian artist, living and working in Brussels. No material escapes the eye of the artist: carpets, fabrics, plastic, felt, jute, rubber, knitwear, metal or wooden frames, remnants of roofing, tape, or moving blankets are processed in his visual universe. It is a multi-layered world where found objects are freely brought together to relate to each other in new harmony.

INTERVIEW | Ophira Spitz

INTERVIEW | Ophira Spitz

Ophira Spitz is a multimedia artist based in Tel Aviv. With a past experience as a Geography teacher, she began making art in her 30s and has continued ever since. Her art includes painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation and is influenced by various aspects such as nature, the environment, and topography. Her work has a strong bond with cartography and geography, and she aims to merge and combine various worlds.

INTERVIEW | Sebastian Mueller-Soppart

INTERVIEW | Sebastian Mueller-Soppart

Sebastian Mueller-Soppart is a former advertising executive and creative director. His work has an intentional criticism towards the impact we, as humans, have on the planet, our generation's out-of-control consumerism, and the shared concern of how effective recycling really is.

INTERVIEW | BACCA - Benjamin Baccarani

INTERVIEW | BACCA - Benjamin Baccarani

Also known as Bacca, Benjamin Baccarani is a French artist. Bacca's work is a junction between photography and contemporary painting. He strives to transcend the materiality of photographs to make them more performative for the viewer. He works essentially with traditional photography and collage. He feels the need to salvage the images he captures as well as the ones he finds on billboards, subway ads, and old magazines.