Jiaying is a filmmaker whose work explores the intricacies of human emotion and the societal forces that shape our lives. Her storytelling delves into themes of identity, gender, and societal expectations, influenced by her experiences as an Asian woman navigating the challenges of Hollywood. Through her films, Jiaying seeks to uncover hidden truths and amplify marginalized voices.
INTERVIEW | Xena Zhang
Xena Zhang is an architect and cross-disciplinary visual artist whose work interweaves innovative sustainability practices with culturally immersive experiences. Agri-Cultural Oasis: Sustainable Living and Dominican Traditions, in collaboration with Yuanhao Zhou, merges off-grid farming, tropical leisure, and vibrant cultural exploration into a holistic, sustainable living experience.
INTERVIEW | REBELLICCA
REBELLICCA is an artist and wordsmith based in the Netherlands. She creates 3D surrealist visual poetics that gravitate around the concepts of consciousness, freedom, time, and love. Her art can be considered a dialogue with the subconscious. It is born from visions she sees as complete in her mind before rendering them into tangible form, with 3D as her preferred medium.
INTERVIEW | Meicheng Chi
Meicheng Chi 迟美橙 is a multidisciplinary artist and designer currently based in New York. Her creative practice transcends conventional boundaries, allowing her to explore emotional and material connections across different mediums. Through her artworks, Meicheng taps into deeply personal experiences and dreamlike states, creating pieces that resonate with softness and emotional depth.
INTERVIEW | Zhuo Xiong
Zhuo Xiong (b. 1988, Inner Mongolia, China) is an artist based in Shenzhen, China, and New York, US. His work is rooted in this cultural backdrop, with constant mediating in-between materials intrinsic to the pastoral lifestyle. His latest series originates from the artist's reflection on his childhood and the process of Sinicization of Inner Mongolia.
INTERVIEW | Sofia Malemina
Sofia Malemina is a multimedia artist working with timed-based mediums such as video, sound, light, and immersive installations. She established her artistic career in London by blending digital technologies with traditional techniques to explore themes such as identity, perception, and the interplay between physical and virtual spaces. Sofia Malemina
INTERVIEW | Yi-Han Chou
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INTERVIEW | Matteo Cervone
Matteo Cervone is an Italian photographer, based in Milan. After working for 25 years in multinational service companies as a behavioral trainer, he approached photography later in life, establishing himself as an artist. His series Other Worlds is a visual journey in time and space, where traffic lights become the main character of an urban stage.
INTERVIEW | Timothée Mahuzier
Timothée Mahuzier is a French artist, based between Paris and Normandy. In his work he pays particular attention is given to using environmentally friendly and local materials. In his series Verdures, environment is presented rather than imitated, generating rich density through the plants' proximity to the canvas. These open-ended works serve as catalysts for individual experiences.
INTERVIEW | Edward L. Rubin
Edward L. Rubin is an award-winning fine art photographer, production designer, and painter based in Los Angeles. In his series My Mannequin Moment, he depicts the transcendent moment when we realize we are no longer aligned with the roles, beliefs, or relationships we've accepted and where the veil is lifted and we confront the false ideals imposed on us.
INTERVIEW | Sumio Kobayashi
Sumio Kobayashi is a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music. He won several prices and has made appearances at festivals such as Takefu International Music Festival, Tongyeong International Music Festival, and Weimarer Frühjahrstage für zeitgenössische Musik. He is currently a Professor of Composition and Musicology at Nihon University in Tokyo, Japan.
INTERVIEW | Sophie Dezhao Jin
Sophie Dezhao Jin is a multimedia visual artist originally from Beijing, China, who explores the intricate dynamics of human relationships through her diverse practice. Working across various mediums, she delves into themes of connection—whether with others, with nature, or with the resonances of the past. Her work focuses on identity, memory, and the human experience.
INTERVIEW | Helena Eribenne
Helena Eribenne, a London-born multimedia artist of Nigerian descent, works across film, photography, performance art, theatre, installation, and music. Her work critiques post-colonialism, using 19th-century tools like the magic lantern and panorama to challenge colonial narratives embedded in the collective unconscious.
INTERVIEW | Xinyi Qin
Xinyi Qin is a Chinese artist currently based in Hong Kong. In Xinyi's paintings, she relies on her intuition to select different types of plants as her subjects - they are tiny, peculiar, faded, blooming, or rotten. She focuses more on their temperament, allowing the diversity of plants to unfold naturally without limitations or definitions.
INTERVIEW | Julia Lehmann
Julia Lehmann is a philosopher, writer, translator, and artist whose practice is deeply intertwined with her explorations of language, humanity, and the natural world. Exploring the boundary between text and image, the parts then form a new whole, fragments of a female voice. The typewriter is the tool to hide, to love, to seek, to find, to hope, to think.
INTERVIEW | Ellen De
Ellen De is a visual artist who uses photography as her primary medium to explore the intersections of architecture, abstraction, and social critique. Her work reimagines brutalist structures as sculptural forms, detaching them from their historical and ideological contexts. By emphasizing form over function, Ellen's photographs transform iconic architectural symbols into evocative remnants of unrealized utopias.
INTERVIEW | Giulia Guasta Guarnaccia
Giulia Guasta Guarnaccia is a digital artist and an intersectional activist; she also considers herself an interdisciplinary researcher and a data archaeologist. In her work, she mixes social engagement with varied artistic practices, always linked to ethical issues; in her opinion, there's a strong need to deconstruct ourselves going through privileges and marginalities.
INTERVIEW | Karim Bassegoda - Keight
Keight is a multidisciplinary artist who explores a variety of experiments and mediums, ranging from “traditional” art to immersive installations and digital works. Equal parts artist and designer, and both conceptual and expressionist, Keight takes the viewer on a visual journey through his unique language, peppered with references and symbolic pictograms that circumscribe his abundant universe.
INTERVIEW | YeeJae Kim
Yeejae Kim is an artist whose interdisciplinary work spans performance, sculpture, video, and installation, using vulnerability to challenge the expectations and ideals imposed by beauty standards. Born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, she draws from her cultural background and personal experiences to engage with societal norms. She is currently based in Long Island City, NY.