INTERVIEW | Gerardo Labarca

INTERVIEW | Gerardo Labarca

Gerardo Labarca is a self-taught painter based in Canada. His works are primarily portraits, capturing the essence of his subjects through meticulous attention to detail, blending precision and lightness while conveying emotions. He draws inspiration from timeless icons and wildlife, aiming to raise public awareness about its preservation.

INTERVIEW | Robin Steven Moné

INTERVIEW | Robin Steven Moné

Robin Steven Moné is a multidisciplinary artist whose work emerges from rupture, silence, and resistance. His practice confronts psychological fragmentation and societal decay through sculpture, installation, and conceptual painting. His latest series, Infinity RELICS, consists of 200 unique mixed-media capsules that materialize human contradictions through form, texture, and symbolic compression.

INTERVIEW | Mikala Martinez

INTERVIEW | Mikala Martinez

Mikala Clarise Martinez is a painter who lives in Los Angeles, California. She makes figurative abstract paintings primarily on unstretched canvas. Martinez focuses on using the environment surrounding her space as compositions for her paintings. She lets her intuition guide the colours that are chosen, along with the movements that are made by brush or palette knife.

INTERVIEW | Saniya Assembek

INTERVIEW | Saniya Assembek

Saniya Assembek is a motion designer and director from Kazakhstan, now based in New York. With a background in engineering, she brings a structured, thoughtful approach to storytelling, blending visual rhythm, sound, and emotion in her work. In her breakout short film Soundtrack Your Life, she explored how a shift in sound could alter an entire emotional landscape.

INTERVIEW | Valya Papadopoulou

INTERVIEW | Valya Papadopoulou

Valya Papadopoulou is a fashion Illustrator and designer with a background in chemical engineering, raised in Canada and currently based in Athens, Greece. A self-taught multidisciplinary artist, her work is deeply influenced by the intersection of these two distinct cultural and academic experiences, blending precision with artistic expression.

INTERVIEW | Min Kun Li

INTERVIEW | Min Kun Li

Min Kun Li (Sam Fisher) is a new media creator and art educator active at the forefront of digital art. His creations are based on digital media, completing the deconstruction of art and the contemporary translation of religious culture, and constructing a field with both spiritual and technological characteristics in virtual space.

INTERVIEW | Wataru Furuta

INTERVIEW | Wataru Furuta

Wataru Furuta is a photographer and graphic designer based in Tokyo, Japan. In the series Hazama, Furuta focuses on the relationship between our memory and vision. He uses visual effects to blend the holy places he has seen with other landscapes that are traditionally and philosophically associated with those places, attempting to evoke the images that people have had of those places.

INTERVIEW | Léa. M

INTERVIEW | Léa. M

Lebanese-Canadian artist Léa. M, currently based in the United Arab Emirates, brings a bold and uninhibited approach to contemporary painting. Entirely self-taught, she draws inspiration from post-impressionist and expressionist movements, channelling their emotive power and vibrant aesthetics into a style that is uniquely her own. Her work captures fleeting moments of joy.

INTERVIEW | Tinmin

INTERVIEW | Tinmin

Tinmin is a contemporary abstract artist known for pioneering an innovative technique that uses a lint roller to extract and manipulate fibres from vintage garments and fibrous materials. He transforms these elements into vibrant, textured compositions on paper, breathing new purpose and life into them. His work is characterised by striking abstract imagery, rich in colour and depth.