Sculpture

INTERVIEW | Wen Liu

INTERVIEW | Wen Liu

Wen Liu is a Chinese-born artist and interaction designer currently based in Beijing, China. With over a decade of experience in the United States and Europe, she brings a diverse cultural perspective to her practice. Wen's artistic journey revolves around exploring connections between individuals, nature, and environments, through sculpture, painting, and installation.

INTERVIEW | Sean Fedelman

INTERVIEW | Sean Fedelman

Sean Fedelman is a multidisciplinary artist who pushes the boundaries of minimalist contemporary art. His work centers around the unexpected juxtaposition of urban elements and organic forms, utilizing a diverse palette of materials, including concrete, plaster, resin, and even plants. His latest series, "City of Gardens," arose from the profound recognition that nature predates humanity.

INTERVIEW | Chen Yang

INTERVIEW | Chen Yang

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.

INTERVIEW | Xinyu Zhang

INTERVIEW | Xinyu Zhang

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.

INTERVIEW | Jessalyn Finch

INTERVIEW | Jessalyn Finch

Jessalyn Finch has been a visual artist since 2009. Post-pandemic, Finch continued to focus on the conceptual work of body perception and voyeurism. Her body of work combines large-scale drawing and sculpture to investigate our experiences and perceptions of the human body. Her current work explores body dysmorphia, identity, and sense of self. The themes are meant to be a catalyst for discussion and connection through shared experience.

INTERVIEW | Kevin Costello

INTERVIEW | Kevin Costello

Kevin Costello is an American artist, currently living and working in New York. Complexity and strength, with vulnerability and hopelessness, Costello’s recent works seek to expose a delicate coexistence between a sense of calm and structured safety and the underlying gravity of the unpredictable tension that now pulls at us. The play of line, structure, and pattern at the cliffs edge.

INTERVIEW | Se Young Yim

INTERVIEW | Se Young Yim

Se Young Yim is a New York-based painter and sculptor, originally from Seoul, South Korea. Her artistic practice is centered around the exploration of the vulnerable physicality of the body and the representation of intimate moments or places imbued with an eerie quality. Through her art, she seeks to capture the fragile nature of humans. Her work oscillates between concealing and revealing, always with a subtle sense.

INTERVIEW | Ben Quesnel

INTERVIEW | Ben Quesnel

Ben Quesnel is a multimedia artist and educator producing work in Stamford, Connecticut. He deconstructs and distorts objects from his everyday experience, apprehending the meanings that have been attached to the items and evaluating them with a new understanding. Through the deliberate placement of these objects in unexpected ways, Quesnel creates a sense of bewilderment, a disruption to challenge certainties and confront preconceptions.

INTERVIEW | p:d - Shuochun Xiang

INTERVIEW | p:d - Shuochun Xiang

p:d (Shuochun Xiang) is a London-based artist from Jiangsu, China. Integrating her life practice into her artistic practice, her work was involved in a wide range of media, including but not limited to sculpture, moving images, text, and performance. p:d tends to choose basic and daily materials, focuses on East Asian social issues from a female perspective, and explores themes of alienation and body politics.

INTERVIEW | Caroline Kampfraath

INTERVIEW | Caroline Kampfraath

Caroline Kampfraath is a Dutch sculptor from Amsterdam. Her works consist primarily of elements that she fuses into the total artwork, often thematic pieces and installations. Caroline is socially driven, both as a person and as an artist. In her work, she highlights the urgency and impact of global crises, which are currently upon us and permeate our collective consciousness.

INTERVIEW | Kexin Liu

INTERVIEW | Kexin Liu

Kexin Liu is a Chinese multi-disciplinary artist and design researcher based in the UK. Kexin has a fascination with everything queer & peculiar. As a generalist, she particularly enjoys developing simple, yet unexpected art narratives/design solutions based on extensive research and collaboration with people from various disciplines. Her latest projects are 2065 and Lost in Translation.

INTERVIEW | David Moješčík

INTERVIEW | David Moješčík

David Moješčík, aka MojDa, belongs to the middle generation of Czech sculptors. In his work, he deals with figurative sculpture. He uses all the advantages of sculpture in terms of material, allowing him to vary his sculptures in many positions, poses, and postures. He uses his own approach and handwriting in these subjects, but he often likes to work with hidden symbols or a greater or lesser degree of irony and exaggeration.

INTERVIEW | Ashling (Yaxin) Tu

INTERVIEW | Ashling (Yaxin) Tu

Ashling (Yaxin) Tu is a Chinese Illustrator, Designer, and sculptor, living in the USA. Ashling primarily works on a digital pad for 2d arts. Her 3d sculptures are, in contrast, mainly built from natural materials and existing objects she picks up on the street. The young artist believes both reality and the digital world are as important in the current human society.

INTERVIEW | Huidi Xiang

INTERVIEW | Huidi Xiang

Huidi Xiang is an artist and researcher who is currently based in Brooklyn, NY, USA. In her art practice, Huidi Xiang makes sculptural objects, installations, and systems to probe the spatial and temporal effects of inhabiting both virtual and physical worlds in late capitalism. Huidi's current research focuses on the complex interplay between play and labor in our contemporary life, where the boundaries between these two are increasingly blurred.

INTERVIEW | Kim Matthews

INTERVIEW | Kim Matthews

Kim Matthews makes nonobjective sculptures and drawings in various media. The frequent use of modular construction arose from practical concerns and spiritual ones, as repetition is evocative of the mantra meditation that structures her daily life. The ongoing Objects of Affection series was prompted by an urge to reclaim comforting childhood memories and honor the artists and designers whose work informed her early visual lexicon.

INTERVIEW | Ray Besserdin

INTERVIEW | Ray Besserdin

Ray Besserdin has established a 32-year career that is recognised internationally with over 35 awards to date. He sculptures artworks dimensionally much like bas-reliefs working with “a palette of sheet-formed papers” that offer a wide spectrum of colours, textures, solidity, and delicate translucency. The stocks are mostly mould-made or handmade cotton, mulberry (Kozo), hemp and flax stocks from Europe and Asia.

INTERVIEW | Suly Bornstein-Wolff

INTERVIEW | Suly Bornstein-Wolff

Suly Bornstein-Wolff creates objects, installations as well as paintings. Usually creating large-scale paintings, her subject varies from landscape to architecture, from figurative to abstract. Esthetics is a major focus in both her paintings and objects. By using readymade material, she emphasizes the quality and the beauty of the object, as if it was a jewel.

INTERVIEW | Aomi Kikuchi

INTERVIEW | Aomi Kikuchi

Aomi Kikuchi’s work is based on Japanese aesthetic principles and the teachings of the Buddha, such as “Wabi-sabi” and “Mono-no-aware”. It addresses infinity as the succession of fleeting and brittle activities. With freedom and flexibility, she combines acquired knowledge and experiment and creates art to inspire dialogue and reflection on these concepts through materials and aesthetic philosophies.

Dr Gindi, Kant and the Encounter with the Sublime

Dr Gindi, Kant and the Encounter with the Sublime

A passionate thinker, notwithstanding being a grounded sculptor, Dr Gindi reflects a lot on the connection between philosophy and the arts. Apart from their stunning appeal, Dr Gindi’s sculptures ask the viewer to mirror the grammar of consciousness, investigate a core sense of sublimity outside of decay, and contemplate about infinite presence.

INTERVIEW | Ester Crocetta

INTERVIEW | Ester Crocetta

Ester Crocetta is an Italian visual artist. Her latest project, CHICCHIRIA Poultry, is a summary of years of deep interior reflection. The concept of the CHICCHIRIA Poultry is the theme of “ANIMAL FOOD”. Our liberated, consumerist society is still struggling to evolve towards this new theme. History has caused us to reflect on the balance and harmony within nature, teaching new limits regarding the excessive consumption of meat.