Can Cui, originally from Beijing and currently based in New York, is known for her sculptural silhouettes and thoughtful explorations of material. Her work combines technical precision with conceptual depth, often engaging with themes of identity, transformation, and emotional texture. Can continues to challenge conventional structures and explore the expressive possibilities of fashion.
INTERVIEW | Yezi Lou
Yezi Lou is a Chinese artist, who challenges classical oil painting through subtle shifts in palette and bold subject choices. Her practice revolves around objects as entry points into explorations of belonging, nostalgia, and alienation. Her paintings feature mundane objects stripped of original economic value, reflecting shifting identities and interactions beyond traditional social frameworks.
INTERVIEW | Tianjiao Wang
Tianjiao Wang works with film, photography, and installation. She was born in Beijing and is currently based in Chicago. She considers her films to be experimental documentaries. She anticipates that this medium can reveal subtle shifts and new perspectives in even the most ordinary things. She works both digitally and on celluloid. Her subjects and inspirations largely stem from her mother.
INTERVIEW | Hsin Hwang
Hsin Hwang is a Taiwanese visual artist whose practice encompasses painting, drawing, printmaking, textiles, and installation art. Deeply influenced by fairy tales, mysticism, and Jungian psychology, her work draws from dream imagery, faith, and personal experiences to depict inner spiritual landscapes. Her work serves as a process of self-inquiry and as a healing force.
INTERVIEW | Yicong Li
Yicong Li is an interdisciplinary artist and educator from Beijing, China, currently based in Chicago. Li's artistic vision merges influences from her diverse cultural background. She pushes the boundaries of fashion through masquerades and sculptural forms that interact with the body. She collaborates with local artists and designers and showcases her work in numerous exhibitions globally.
INTERVIEW | Qianqian Jia
Qianqian Jia is a Fashion designer based in London. For her, fashion is a way of expressing herself. For her, fashion is a way of expressing herself. Fashion doesn't just exist in the closet but in lifestyle and beliefs. Because of her experience in graphic design, her designs are always very linear and balanced. The clothes establish a sensory connection with the wearer through balance.
INTERVIEW | Pasquale Loiudice
INTERVIEW | Yiqi Zhao
Yiqi Zhao (Edie) is a visual artist and illustrator whose surrealist practice interrogates themes of identity, societal constraints, and resilience through a fusion of meticulous craftsmanship and symbolic storytelling. She continues to expand her practice, blending traditional techniques with digital innovation to amplify underrepresented narratives.
INTERVIEW | Mingyong Cheng
Mingyong Cheng, originally from Beijing and now based in California, is an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of AI, generative art, and environmental research. Working across generative animation, performance, real-time systems, and immersive installation, she develops hybrid environments where nature, data, and memory converge through machine vision and embodied experience.
INTERVIEW | Angelina Voskopoulos
Angelina Voskopoulou is a multidisciplinary artist whose work traverses sculpture, experimental filmmaking, and screen dance, often exploring themes of human existence, impermanence, and the unseen forces that shape identity. Through hybrid forms and ephemeral gestures, her art invites viewers into liminal spaces, where the natural and artificial blur and become a site of philosophical inquiry.
INTERVIEW | Maxim Frumkin (Max Naum)
Maxim Frumkin is an award-winning visual artist based in Canada, working across experimental video, art photography, and mixed media. His practice investigates the fluidity of identity, how we perform, reshape, or resist ourselves to be seen, to belong, or to disappear. He creates flexible, unstable narratives where meaning loops, blurring the lines between memory, persona, and authenticity.
INTERVIEW | Zeyang Xu
Zeyang Xu has a strong interest in sustainable fashion and is committed to exploring eco-friendly materials to make a positive impact on the industry. She is also attuned to contemporary trends, seamlessly blending both Eastern and Western aesthetics into her works. She is committed to expanding her creative practice, blending diverse mediums and cultural influences.
INTERVIEW | Clara Grabowiecki
Clara Grabowiecki is an Argentine visual artist, born in Buenos Aires in 1983. Her work is a journey into an interior cosmos. Passing through the figurative to the abstract, the images construct cosmologies of the imagination. Her images are recognisable by a confident colour palette of tropical tones and metallic glimmers that connect to a collective unconscious cultural psyche.
INTERVIEW | Mingxuan Zhang
Mingxuan Zhang's artistic practice centres on the fluidity and de-symbolisation of the body, exploring the complex relationship between the body, space, and gaze through distortion and absence. She creatively incorporates ready-made fabrics from the real world into her paintings, capturing the transition between the “virtual” and the “real.” She currently lives between London and Hong Kong.
INTERVIEW | Ruoyu Gong
Ruoyu Gong is a New York-based painter. His work delves into the complexity of the human psyche in the theme of personal symbolism. Ruoyu sees painting as a way to uncover the veiled tensions within his psyche. Through this distillation process, he navigates the labyrinth of his psychological landscape that often lies dormant beneath the surface of daily life.
INTERVIEW | Jie Chen
Jie Chen is a Chinese illustrator and fashion designer. She specializes in interdisciplinary storytelling, seamlessly blending fashion, illustration, bookmaking, and 3D digital fashion design to create immersive narratives. Her project NEO·GENESIS reimagines creation, replacing traditional notions of divine design with chaos and accident.
INTERVIEW | Mahta Salehi
Mahta Salehi is an Iranian artist currently living in the US. In her recent paintings investigate psychological transformation and the tension between confinement and freedom by combining abstraction and figuration and using symbolic imagery. In her work, she uses experimental techniques and layered compositions to encourage viewers to interact with the shifting nature of psychological landscapes.
INTERVIEW | Hou Guan-Ting
INTERVIEW | Robert Claus
An emerging photographer with a background in translation and music, Robert Claus has been exploring drawing, composition, and theatre since an early age. He tends to draw on still life for his subjects, but has also explored both urban and rural landscapes, as well as portraiture. He has produced several book-length curated projects ranging from theatre work to abstract still-life compositions.
INTERVIEW | Yuyang (Lily) Wei
Yuyang (Lily) Wei is a Chinese-New Zealander artist currently living and working in London. Drawing on her own experiences growing up between New Zealand and China, a topic that concerns Yuyang's artworks is the identity crisis of Third-Culture Kids. Paintings in this section depict Yuyang's personal feelings of being part of a diaspora.