INTERVIEW | Jiang Geping

INTERVIEW | Jiang Geping

Jiang Geping is a senior concept designer, illustrator, comic artist, and lecturer based in China. The artist questions whether robots should have the same rights as humans and what that would mean for our society. The series depicts robots with human-like features, raising the question of how we define humanity and where we draw the line between humans and machines.

INTERVIEW | Patrícia Abreu

INTERVIEW | Patrícia Abreu

Patrícia Abreu is a Brazilian visual artist. Themes about Time, Memory, and the Natural World are a constant presence in her work. She has always been interested in the mysteries of Nature's life, which is covered beyond the visible surfaces that envelopes what we see and blur what we imagine. Her series of photographs titled Echoing Humanity was shot in Cisco, a ghost town in Utah, USA, in January 2019.

INTERVIEW | Song Lu

INTERVIEW | Song Lu

Song Lu is an artist born in Guizhou, China, in 1994. As a visual artist currently based in Shanghai, Song Lu's creative practice primarily focuses on photography, video, and 3D animation. Through her works, she explores and expresses a range of emotions and feelings, often incorporating elements of humor, surrealism, and childlike wonder in a playful and whimsical style.

INTERVIEW | Evgeniya Strygina

INTERVIEW | Evgeniya Strygina

Evgeniya Strygina is a London-based contemporary artist specializing in landscape and architecture photography. She captures urban and natural environments to highlight their relation to and their autonomy from human beings. To make the viewer see aspects of the landscape that routinely go unnoticed, she offers a different perspective and deliberately strips down the style of her photographs.

INTERVIEW | Nae Zerka

INTERVIEW | Nae Zerka

Nae Zerka is an Austrian artist, based in Salzburg, Austria. In the age of frequent digital disruption, visual artist Nae Zerka showcases in his work the promising possibilities of painting with technology. His artistic practice infuses visual elements borrowed from these disciplines with a painterly touch. Together with the use of contrasts and line work, they form new transformed worlds made possible by the digital realm.

INTERVIEW | Annet Katan

INTERVIEW | Annet Katan

Annet Katan, originally from Ukraine, is a photographer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Annet's approach to her work is marked by a unique blend of art direction, photography, and styling. Her latest series, FakeFluence(r), analyzes the world of influencers with its artificial and misleading promotional images, exposing the hidden reality of the industry’s dark, glamorous side.

INTERVIEW | Jikke Lesterhuis

INTERVIEW | Jikke Lesterhuis

Jikke Lesterhuis is a multidisciplinary artist from the Netherlands, currently based in Amsterdam. She never stopped drawing from the moment she learned how to use a pencil. Jikke currently focuses on ways to bring the 2D medium into a 3D space. Using her curiosity and eagerness to learn, she keeps discovering new sides of herself that reflect in her work.

INTERVIEW | Hailing Liu

INTERVIEW | Hailing Liu

Hailing Liu is a mixed-media artist, animator, and motion graphic designer working and living in Chicago. They employ diverse media in their art practice: 2D and 3D animation, video composition, writing, sculpture, printing, Augmented Reality, physical and virtual installation. Focusing on digital culture, images, and media representations in contemporary life, Liu researches images produced as visual communication in capital systems.

INTERVIEW | Dana Manor Cohen

INTERVIEW | Dana Manor Cohen

Dana Manor Cohen is an Israeli artist, living in Kibbutz Tziv’on. In recent years, she has been painting on old book covers that she collects. These rigid rectangular surfaces accumulate the evidence of many years, and on them, she draws and paints the landscape in which she lives. In these pastoral views, she attempts to express her love and closeness to nature.

INTERVIEW | Emmanuelle Becker

INTERVIEW | Emmanuelle Becker

Emmanuelle Becker is a visual artist and photographer based in Paris. Emmanuelle Becker's photographic work explores the selective nature of memory and the impact of emotions on how the brain prioritizes and retains information. Becker has an intimist look at her subjects to create her singular dreamlike imagery. Her fascination with dreams and the unconscious is at the heart of her creative process.

INTERVIEW | Nan Zhao

INTERVIEW | Nan Zhao

Nan Zhao is a Chinese artist who has lived and worked in various countries, including the UK, Czech Republic, and Germany. Her multicultural background has influenced her art, which explores the themes of diversity, similarity, and unity. Nan's paintings are characterized by a rich use of color, layering, and abstraction, inviting viewers to think deeply about the complex emotions and relationships depicted.

INTERVIEW | Jessica Braccio

INTERVIEW | Jessica Braccio

Jessica Braccio’s artwork is influenced by her autism. Being on the spectrum helps her create her artwork. Autism is the vehicle that helps Jessica create and encode her artwork. Her Divinity shows her the codes, colors, and shapes to include in each piece, and she acts as a translator. She chooses to consciously create from a space of Divinity, free from trauma and chaos.

INTERVIEW | Saliha Kaytan

INTERVIEW | Saliha Kaytan

Saliha Kaytan is a Turkish artist, based in Istanbul. The artist, who examines memory in general with an inductive method, examines rational and irrational phenomena by underlining the contrast between the emotions and behaviors of the human being in this cycle. She tries to carry this to a collective dimension based on her own memory.

INTERVIEW | Jing Zhao

INTERVIEW | Jing Zhao

Jing Zhao is Chinese artist, born in Shanghai and currently based in Brooklyn, New York. explores ideological transformations in this time of accelerated information circulation and cultural diaspora. Zhao was trained as a photographer, and her research-based practice is rooted in the tradition of conceptual art. As a result, she works across a broad range of mediums.

INTERVIEW | REGEN

INTERVIEW | REGEN

REGEN is a digital artist and VJ, currently living in Sichuan, China. She has always been fascinated by the rhythm data of the different types of music. She has created content in the form of digital animations, live audiovisual concerts, and installations. Her latest project, Infinity, is a new media digital artwork generated by computer algorithms, with visual variations generated in real-time through the analysis of music beats.

INTERVIEW | Shiyu (Icy) Qiao

INTERVIEW | Shiyu (Icy) Qiao

Shiyu (Icy) Qiao is a London-based animation director, 2D & stop-motion animator, and illustration artist from China. Her themes are often drawn from personal experience, social psychology, and philosophy. Her works are not limited to a single medium and she sees her creation as a healing process, creating a conversation with the viewers through the dissection of memory and self.

INTERVIEW | Jia Jia

INTERVIEW | Jia Jia

Jia Jia is a multi-media artist. She works primarily in installation, incorporating sculpture, video, and performance. Her practice uses satire and humor to imagine everyday objects anew. The work questions how globalization and a technologically saturated society influence the ideology of the individual and how the individual behaves in a society filled with contradiction and stimulation.

INTERVIEW | Hui Long

INTERVIEW | Hui Long

Hui Long is a photographer and creative director who brings a unique perspective to the art world. Her work focuses on themes exploring femininity and self-discovery, using her own personal experiences and memories as a source of inspiration. Through her art, she invites viewers to delve into the complexity of the human experience and to consider how our past experiences shape and define us.

INTERVIEW | Fina Ferrara

INTERVIEW | Fina Ferrara

Fina Ferrara is a Mexican performance and video artist. Disturbed by how human boundaries are often penetrated through interactions with others, violence, hatred, and abuse are stepping stones in her performances. Through expelling these emotions, Fina questions life and social standards, highlighting our areas of discomfort. For Fina, performance is an ongoing act of collective self-evolution.

INTERVIEW | Marlon Tabone

INTERVIEW | Marlon Tabone

Marlon Tabone is a Maltese artist currently based in London (UK). He creates conceptual pieces using computational and mixed media. The life and work of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia (“One Woman Wiki Leaks”), who was assassinated in Bidnija, Malta on October 16th 2017, is celebrated through Tabone’s 2020 piece “In Memoriam."