Artists’ Talk
Al-Tiba9 Interviews is a promotional platform for artists to articulate their vision and engage them with our diverse readership through a published art dialogue. The artists are interviewed by the founder & curator, Mohamed Benhadj, to highlight their artistic careers and introduce them to the international contemporary art scene across our vast network of museums, galleries, art professionals, art dealers, collectors, and art lovers across the globe.

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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pasquale Loiudice, Italian architect by training, approaches painting not as a traditional painter, but as an explorer of surfaces. For him, the painted surface is not an end in itself, but a site of inquiry, an open terrain where intention, chance, and error intersect.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hou Guan-Ting (侯冠廷), born in 1999, explores the relationships between time, the body, and craftsmanship. Through intricate textile techniques and layered textures, his work examines how material and memory intertwine within woven structures.
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.
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.
Mosaz (Zijun Zhao)'s work is based on her understanding of traditional culture as an Asian individual—an understanding shaped by what she has heard, seen, and deeply felt since childhood. She focuses on symbols, imagery, and rituals embedded in cultural memory, reconstructing them through a personal lens. This is how she expresses the complexity of her inner spiritual world.
Noceda is a contemporary mixed-media artist whose work is based on elements of abstract expressionism, minimalism, and conceptual art. His strong foundation in graphic arts, together with a deep fascination with anthropology and philosophy, shaped his unique artistic voice. Drawing from this multidisciplinary background, Noceda crafts compositions that challenge viewers' preconceptions, pointing out established dualities.
Chu Ling-Jung & Tang Zi-Xian are both Taiwanese artists. They are both based in Taipei, where they live and work. Their collaborative project, Clearing the Text, describes the dyslexic patient's intense desire to comprehend text, the despair of being unable to read, and the attempt to regain the ability to read by integrating their body into the text through various methods.
Filip Moszant's work is an intuitive rebellion against imposed socialization. At the core of his practice lies a deep engagement with form, texture, and movement. His paintings pulse with energy, shaped by unseen forces. Colours collide violently or dissolve into meditative softness, creating a balance between control and chaos. His acrylic markers and felt pens generate rhythmic gestures.
Marcus Brown is a sculptor, painter, inventor, musician, and educator. Brown developed a form of painting called Electro-sonic Painting in which the artist paints with sound/data-producing instruments. HIs mission is to create artworks that educate the public about important issues while transcending both media and societal boundaries.
Anastasia Egonyan is a visual artist of Ukrainian and Armenian descent based in Berlin. With over a decade of experience in photography, she has expanded her practice to incorporate textiles and found objects, creating a dynamic interdisciplinary approach. Her art reflects a journey of reconciling fragmented ancestry and nomadic experiences in the search for "home" and identity.
Hanqi Li is a practice-based media artist based between London (UK) and Shenzhen (CN). Her work primarily engages with interactive art, narrative films, generative art, and 3D rendering, while her research explores media archaeology, speculative fiction, and the intricate relationship between nature and technology, with a focus on environmental issues.
Anna M. Masiul Gozdecka reates abstract and realistic compositions, sometimes full of colour and optimism, sometimes in grayscale with an accent, to honour all colours at their noblest. Her work is inextricably linked with nature and its perfection - the multitude of forms, textures, connections, the diversity of the landscape and the game light and shadow.
Jason Fairchild is an international fine artist based in the USA, known for his dynamic large-scale abstract paintings. His work bursts with bold colours and expressive brushstrokes, creating immersive compositions that evoke movement, energy, and emotion. Drawing inspiration from the raw spontaneity of abstract expressionism, Fairchild uses sweeping gestures and layered textures.
Boris is a self-taught photographer originally from Minsk, Belarus, now based in Philadelphia. He combines his technical knowledge and creative vision to produce compelling images that resonate emotionally. His project, Fierce, examines the paradox of cuteness aggression, a psychological phenomenon where overwhelming feelings of adoration for something provoke an intense response.
Eagan Hsu is an emerging photographic artist based in Taipei. His work explores the complex web of human emotions, mental health, identity, and the often-overlooked moments of daily life. Eagan's photography spans from candid street portraits to conceptual series, delving into themes like imperfection, memory, and anonymity.
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.
Xiao He is a multidisciplinary artist focusing on painting and visual communication design. In her works, Xiao records ordinary life moments such as soaking in the warm bathtub as well as random conversations that she had with a stranger in Mexico. Consciousness the magician would fabricate these fragments together, and she records them faithfully, in the form of paintings and artist's books.
Dijun Sha (Shine Sha) is a London-based multimedia artist, jewellery designer, and curator whose work bridges the gap between traditional craftsmanship, digital innovation, and curatorial storytelling. Dijun’s practice is deeply rooted in narrative-driven creation, transforming jewellery from a wearable object into an interactive, conceptual medium.
Yiyang Chen is a PhD candidate in fine art at the Glasgow School of Art and an artist working across painting, moving images, ceramics, performance and writing. Delving into themes such as the monstrous, feminism, the erotic, flux, touch, gaze, the archive, and the non-binary, Yiyang Chen's research and practice explore the liveness and fluidity of bodies and material.
Celine Lam (b.1999) is a mixed-media artist in Brooklyn. Her current practice focuses on the polarities under the context of all matters. She uses marks and abstract images to depict contemporary issues which echo her generation. Lam often works with mixed media paper sculptures and paintings employing calligraphy practice paper.
Daniel Selyebi is a Hungarian artist from Budapest. He is mostly inspired by the balance and primal trust felt in nature by experiencing the state of the here and now. He creates according to the principle of less is more, maintaining the characteristic airy character of his figures, which sometimes border on abstraction.
Bessy Huang is a visionary creator who breathes life into the realms of mass media. Her artistic voice dances on the edge of the absurd, the fantastical, and the profoundly dramatic. Fascinated by the surreal nuances of everyday life, she weaves compelling narratives through experimental films and intricately crafted set designs.
Ruihong Liu, a Chinese-born artist now based in New York, delves into the fragility and significance of memories in her art. Acknowledging that memories are transient and susceptible to the tumultuous currents of life, Liu creates garments and installations characterized by their soft and intimate qualities, aiming to safeguard and reveal these precious fragments.
Adonis Antoniou is a Cypriot-Syrian artist currently based in Barcelona. His artistic practice challenges perceptions and provokes thought by addressing global issues such as borders, racism, and violence. Antoniou's abstract work, documents the essence of life, capturing raw emotions and moments. Each painting stands as a testament to the variability of daily life.
Erica Zhan is an interdisciplinary artist and writer born in the southeastern hills of China and currently based in Chicago, US. They employ performance, moving images, installation, and writing to explore games, sports, competitions, and playfulness in the context of consumerism. By using low-tech language and parodic methods, Zhan wants to scrutinize the zones of freedom in human society.
OT is the creative force behind Xintong Qin, a London-based frog witch who wanders and sometimes farm crawls between city and nature. She has resided in a range of small farms while learning and practicing permaculture. Using found objects as well as natural materials to craft occult artworks, she is on a quest to build her own tiny, whimsical world, one where she is free to relax and explore the hidden realms of nature.
Guthrie Cooper is a South African photographer currently living and working in The Hague, Netherlands. His work explores the intersections of coastal life, culture, and urban landscapes, shaped by his experiences growing up along the beaches of South Africa and now living by the North Sea. Living on Tidal Provisions is a curated collection of phots captured between 2023 and 2025 on these themes.
Tianrun Shi is an award-winning photographer known for his evocative explorations of the interplay between nature and urban landscapes. His work captures the evolving relationship between organic and constructed environments, offering a poetic perspective on contemporary spaces. This series of color infrared photographs offers a fresh and immersive perspective on the landscapes of Los Angeles.
Ellerie Brust is an editorial photographer and photo editor based in Burlington, USA. She hopes her work inspires others to engage more actively in their community—not just artistically but politically as well. Humans are inherently social creatures, and in a time when technology seems to dominate, Ellerie believes it is crucial to remember what drives us to create and take action.
Weizi (Trasy) Huang is an art director and production designer deeply committed to the transformative power of visual storytelling. With a unique talent for studying and empathizing with the characters in a script, she strives to translate their inner struggles into compelling visual narratives. She strives to create aesthetic worlds that serve as a reflection of the characters' journey.