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INTERVIEW | Marcel Top

INTERVIEW | Marcel Top

Marcel Top is a 23 years old London-based Belgian photographer. Alongside his traditional use of photography, Top also explores the limits and boundaries of the medium through his practice. Top has always been fascinated by the power of technology, by the ambiguity of its double-faced nature. Breach of privacy, mass surveillance, and the collection of personal data is among Top’s recurring topics.

INTERVIEW | Kinnari Saraiya

INTERVIEW | Kinnari Saraiya

Kinnari Saraiya is an Indian artist based in the UK. Having grown up with the stories of the colonial empire told by her grandfather, she is fascinated by the physical evidence of this history in the landscape of India and England. It voices a counterculture of stories which depicts the dysfunctions of the world and forces a new type of meaning to be created through her work.

INTERVIEW | Eric Pijnaken

INTERVIEW | Eric Pijnaken

Photography always has been for Eric Pijnaken a way to find his way to the world of phenomena in which he lives. He felt the need to reveal another reality within the reality surrounding us. His photo work focuses on the essentials of what he sees. After a career as a journalist, he now lives and works in the French province of Ardèche, where he can freely enjoy his work as a photographer.

INTERVIEW | Dalia Kiaupaitė

INTERVIEW | Dalia Kiaupaitė

Dalia Kiaupaitė is a professional Lithuanian female artist, mostly working in and in-between theatre, opera, and visual art’s fields. She collaborates with several a different theaters, operas, cultural events and activities as stage, costumes, and light designer. As an independent artist, Dalia Kiaupaitė is researching topics of femininity and recognition of cultural signs - stereotypes and archetypes - in contemporary time.

INTERVIEW | Noor Taan

INTERVIEW | Noor Taan

Noor Taan is a German/Lebanese interdisciplinary designer currently based in New York City. Her work focuses on experiments with natural products such as in the Loofah project. Her artwork ranges from illustrations to photography and installation. It includes visual investigations using collages and digital art.

INTERVIEW | Nae Zerka

INTERVIEW | Nae Zerka

As a traveler of the analog-digital synthesis, the visual artist Nae Zerka never stops exploring. Nae's inspiration comes from digitalization, along with graphic design and music. Himself he produced electronic music and became a techno DJ in legendary clubs. His work blends the design element with technology, graphic design with a painterly finish.

INTERVIEW | Sofya Danilova

INTERVIEW | Sofya Danilova

After a decade of constant work, Sofya Danilova got to the point where two-dimensional photography was just not enough to express everything she wanted to. As a seasoned photographer, she tried a hand in different styles, and in the end she started to create kaleidoscopes — images that can achieve the effect of space's enclosure and deeper immersion in the picture.

INTERVIEW | Ulziitugs Enkhbold

INTERVIEW | Ulziitugs Enkhbold

Ulziitugs Enkhbold is a Mongolian artist currently based in Winnipeg, Canada. She works across multiple disciplines and her practice is primarily concentrated around identity and heritage. Her paintings are often completed in oil, while her sculptures are mainly ceramic. Her current body of work consists of oil paintings that analyzes the relationship between immigrants and their home countries.

INTERVIEW | Sam Heydt

INTERVIEW | Sam Heydt

Sam Heydt is an American social practice and recycled media artist. Working across different media, Heydt presents an abstract proposition for a world on the periphery of history, one that not only appears haunted by the ghosts of the past but built on it. Her work has been shown in galleries, museums, art fairs, and film festivals worldwide.

INTERVIEW | Sudesh Prasad

INTERVIEW | Sudesh Prasad

Sudesh Prasad is an American artist. He began working as an artist in New York in 1986. His abstract works focus on the collaborative nature of the artist and the viewer. His Cool Empire II series is made of prints from European painting torn from books and overpainted, in an attempt to re-focus the notion of the viewer and their place in the nature of images, painting, and looking at art.