Ramón González Palazón is a multidisciplinary artist working in painting, drawing, video creation, installation, and filmmaking. His practice seeks to transform real spaces, merging the human and the material, using interactive devices to generate new interpretations of physical environments. In his latest compositions, he reflects on the natural process of atmospheric elements.
Thomas C. Chung is a Chinese-Australian contemporary artist based in Helsinki & Sydney. His latest project, the exhibition The Sea That Stands Before Me…, contemplates the notion of one's devotion to living as a form of armament. Chung's conceptual practice continues its inquiries into psychology, folklore, mythology, and philosophy, binding them as a cohesive tale.
Jewan Goo is a research-based photographer who focuses on reexamining and reconstructing the fading history of Korea during the Japanese colonial period. His work is deeply connected to contemporary issues within institutional archives and history education, which are often biased and subject to political control or censorship by governmental or educational authorities.
Intertwining discourses around labyrinths, social anxiety, and post-truth, Junshu Gu’s work is rooted in rhizome theory and draws from her 13 years of experience in interdisciplinary, culture-related media work and her profound expertise. Her practice incorporates painting, sculpture, and time-based media, appearing minimal and abstract, yet formally lithesome and precise.
Hanna Tzong-Han Wu is a Taiwanese choreographer and dancer based in Los Angeles, California. The dance language that lies between Western contemporary, hip-hop, and martial arts punctuates her signature style. Hanna is most interested in creating works that reflect on humans and humanity and believes that arts are the reflection of society. In her work she blends arts, culture, society, humans, and self.
Rosie Zirou Zhang is a fashion and textile designer based in New York City, with a strong focus on womenswear and weaving. Central to her creative process is the harmonious interplay of textures and colors, a signature element evident throughout her work. Her unique approach involves crafting her own fabrics and exploring the communication between fashion and fine art.
Chelsea Ning is a photographer and textile designer currently based in Providence, Rhode Island. She is grappling with subtle feelings based on the ideas of dissonance, self-identity, concealment, displacement, isolation, and nostalgia in her work. Chelsea has been interested in different ways of media based on visual expressions, including film installations, paintings, and prints.
Sitong Yin is a Chinese artist and the granddaughter of a tailor. She is primarily a fiber artist and works around fiber and textiles, installations, and performance, currently based in Chicago, IL. Her work explores translations between materials, places, and cultures and the poetic and spiritual moments revealed in the gaps of translations.
Deborah Kruger’s latest artwork focuses on the tragic losses of the 21st century, specifically the impacts of human-induced climate change and habitat fragmentation on bird extinction. Kruger hopes that her environmental artwork invites dialogue about the importance of preserving wild spaces, animals, especially vulnerable birds, and protecting habitat for all species, including humans.
Yu Chen is a visual artist, designer, and lecturer with an MFA Degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His focus is on branding, art direction, and 3D graphics design. His project Let Parents Stay focuses on helping the people of Jinling Village, a designated poverty-stricken area - to inherit and promote the culture of Han Embroidery, a traditional technique from China.
Ernest Kankam, aka "BigCedi," is a multidisciplinary artist based in Ghana. His work is heavily influenced by Ghana's rich culture and history, as well as its socio-politics, and frequently incorporates memories, fantasies, and experiences. His works include paintings, drawings, sculptures, and videos. He experiments with various materials and uses vibrant and colourful images to convey his message.
Nouli Omer is a multidisciplinary artist, actress, writer, and comedian. ver the years and up to this day, as an autodidact visual artist, her work ranges from drawing to embroidery, assemblages, lighting fixtures, video, and drawing on plates. Alongside her activities as an artist, she continues to act in theater, television series, and cinema, as well as writing and publishing books, personal columns, poems, short stories in magazines, and more.
Susan Hensel makes sculptural textile works from a feminist perspective combining mixed-media practices with fabric and embroidery across digital and manual platforms, transforming personal experience, private and public spaces, and notions of beauty, through the alchemy of color, scale, lighting and placement.
Alexandra Holownia is a performance and interdisciplinary conceptual artist who made actions in public space, costumes, sculptures, drawings, video, text, lectures. Alexandra Holownia's works touch on taboo topics related to gender. She demonstrates against exclusion, discrimination based on age, sexism, and patriarchal structures in women and men's private and public relations. Calls for socio-political tolerance, acceptance of human rights, and freedom of sexual self-determination.
As an artist working mainly with porcelain and embroidery, Aodan strives to explore, redefine and externalize femininity and “femaleness”. With highly detailed and intricate techniques, she endeavors to show the complicated tableaux with aggressiveness, gentleness, fragility, softness, toughness, struggles, emotions, and pain within femininity and female gender in delicate and cryptic looks.
Aomi Kikuchi is a Japanese creator of innovative fine arts. She is inspired by Buddha’s philosophies of impermanence, insubstantiality, and suffering in all life—referred to in Japanese as Mujo(無常), Muga (無我), and Ku,(苦). She raises awareness that acceptance of impermanence and insubstantiality can liberate from dissatisfaction or suffering.
