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 | Klara Lenhard
Klara is a German filmmaker and graphic designer now based in Berlin. She works in mixed media, including video and sound design, photography, and inclusive design. Klara also engages in experimental arts with the focus on conceptual emotional design. She has been curiously exploring how art makes disconnections tangible.
INTERVIEW | Boris Osipau
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.
INTERVIEW | Bîstyek
Bîstyek is a multidisciplinary artist specializing in painting, sculpture, and drawing. Renowned for his bold use of color and expressive lines, he blends elements of graffiti, street art, and abstraction while also creating figurative paintings on various surfaces and 3D wood sculptures. His work primarily reflects on his personal journey, from his marginalized upbringing in Syria to Canada.
INTERVIEW | Ramón González Palazón
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.
INTERVIEW | Bonan Li
Bonan Li is an artist and designer whose work transcends conventional fashion, exploring the profound connections between nature, human consciousness, and the fleeting beauty of existence. Viewing clothing as a contemplative and immersive experience, she creates wearable art that bridges the natural world and the human body, delving into themes of transience, emptiness, and unseen patterns of life.
INTERVIEW | Xingyu Huang
Xingyu Huang is an interdisciplinary artist based in Chicago, known for her innovative work in sculpture, installation, and video. Her practice explores spatial dynamics and sensory perception, using these elements to delve into themes of human connection, isolation, and environmental impact. Huang creates immersive environments that reflect on the relationships between humans and non-humans.
INTERVIEW | Qianying Zhu
Qianying Zhu is a Chinese jewelry designer. Qianying studied and trained herself as a jewelry designer and focuses on artistic jewelry and self-express. She enjoys observing the characteristics of different things and then expressing them through painting, jewelry, and other forms of artwork. She likes combining different materials together to achieve a sense of harmony and balance.
INTERVIEW | Zihan Zhou
Zihan Zhou is an artist who creates visual art and explores a variety of media while also writing, educating, and working in the media. Zhou draws deeply from historical iconography, searching for their connection to contemporary contexts. Shifting from traditional painting to collaged images to installations and performances, Zhou’s art strives to produce a more open resonance.
INTERVIEW | Omar Zaki
Born in Italy and raised in Cairo, Omar Zaki is a sculptor currently based between Cairo and Barcelona. He is constantly inspired by the human form and the beauty of nature. Through the use of various materials and techniques, he aims to create sculptures that evoke a sense of wonder and introspection in the viewer. Omar's art celebrates the human spirit and the power of creativity.
INTERVIEW | Sonya Bleiph
Sonya Bleiph is an interdisciplinary artist, creative director, and educator, working in both traditional and digital visual arts, as well as the film & entertainment industry. Through the lens of surrealism, industrial hauntology, body horror, and paganism, Bleiph creates an eclectic world reminiscent of the phantasmagoric. Their recent projects focus on human inclination toward sentimentality.
INTERVIEW | Rafael Alejandro López
Rafael Alejandro López is a Swiss-Venezuelan filmmaker and graphic designer based in Los Angeles. Raised between countries in seemingly perfect opposition, Lopez's personal work explores flawed political systems and the duality of the human condition. Through the narrative micro-lens of human experiences and dance, Lopez's aesthetic oscillates between absurdism, fiction, and realism.
INTERVIEW | Xinyu Wo
Xinyu Wo is a Chinese visual artist now living in New York. Her art aims to explore the connection between human nature and social reality, triggering viewers to reflect on their inner worlds through visual presentation. By dramatizing images to increase tension and using surrealist techniques to arrange elements, she aims to attract viewers to explore the meanings behind her works.
INTERVIEW | Erika Thomas
Erika Thomas is a Brazilian artist, currently based in France since the 1980s. As an artist, Erika Thomas sees artistic creation as a profound connection to oneself, others, and the world. In her current presentation, she incorporates dance, exploring the body's relationship to space, poems that delve into language and its connection to meaning, and video, a crucial contemporary medium interwoven with music.
INTERVIEW | Yilin Du
Yilin Du is a London-based digital artist and character designer with a diverse background in creating multimedia content. Her creations aim to provide insight into how digital technologies, new materials, and aesthetics could change our approach to design and thinking. Du's artistic endeavors culminate in a thought-provoking video, a poignant testament to the profound impact technology wields on our perceptions of selfhood.
INTERVIEW | Jiangshengyu Nova Pan
Jiangshengyu Nova Pan is a moving image and installation artist, currently based in Baltimore (USA). work focuses on human mobility. Working from the perspective of the individual, Pan’s work explores the profound transformations of space, power relations, and social networks faced by a mobile population through sculptures and videos, appropriating everyday life scenes based on her semi-fictional writings.
INTERVIEW | Jessalyn Finch
Jessalyn Finch has been a visual artist since 2009. Post-pandemic, Finch continued to focus on the conceptual work of body perception and voyeurism. Her body of work combines large-scale drawing and sculpture to investigate our experiences and perceptions of the human body. Her current work explores body dysmorphia, identity, and sense of self. The themes are meant to be a catalyst for discussion and connection through shared experience.
INTERVIEW | Tokie Wang
Tokie Wang is a Chinese choreographer, dancer, and visual artist currently based in Los Angeles. "RECORDING IN PROCESS" is a thought-provoking art piece that delves into the impact of surveillance systems on our daily lives. The project aims to recreate a "living space" by discreetly placing multiple hidden cameras to record performers while simultaneously live-streaming the recordings within the same space.
INTERVIEW | Se Young Yim
Se Young Yim is a New York-based painter and sculptor, originally from Seoul, South Korea. Her artistic practice is centered around the exploration of the vulnerable physicality of the body and the representation of intimate moments or places imbued with an eerie quality. Through her art, she seeks to capture the fragile nature of humans. Her work oscillates between concealing and revealing, always with a subtle sense.
INTERVIEW | Danzhu Hu
Danzhu Hu is an award-winning Chinese visual storyteller, currently specializing in illustration and fine art painting. Through her practice, Hu wishes to create a world where the most cryptic, subtle, and complicated emotions can be captured, translated, and cherished. Hu's visual language also plays into the sense of emotiveness. Her work is filled with aesthetic cues reminiscent of nature's organic forms, where she hides subtle metaphors.