Yulin Yuan is an interdisciplinary artist and dedicated art educator, born in China and raised in South Africa. Her practice spans photography, video, and assemblage, focusing on themes of identity, mythology, and displacement. Her work bridges the space of "in-between," exploring the ephemeral nature of identity while questioning the very foundation of the self.
INTERVIEW | Momo
Momo was born in Japan to a Japanese mother and a Ghanaian father. She expresses her identity as a mixed-race person with different backgrounds and her ideology of society behind her work. She explores her unique vision through artistic digital and analog fashion pieces, paintings, and performance shows. Since 2017 she has been living New York City, working as a model.
INTERVIEW | Ramzi Mallat
Ramzi Mallat is a Lebanese multidisciplinary artist based between London and Beirut. His artistic practice epitomizes the complexities of cultural identity within our ever-globalized society. Drawing from a rich tapestry of theological and folkloric knowledge from the Levant region, his work challenges the conventional notion of tradition as a civilizational legacy.
INTERVIEW | William Josephs Radford
William Josephs Radford, a Spanish-born fine art photographer, challenges conventional thought processes through his striking compositions and thought-provoking subject matters. His photography delves into controversial themes such as sex, religion, gender, and identity to convey complex emotions and altered perceptions.
INTERVIEW | Bianca Bartley
Bianca Bartley, a Jamaican Psychology graduate from the University of the West Indies, launched her jewellery line 'Peace-is of Bianca' in 2008. Bianca aspires to create an umbrella brand offering a diverse range of products and services. Targeting consumers seeking unique, personalized products, the brand caters to individuals looking to stand out and embrace individuality.
INTERVIEW | Snow - Xueyi Huang
Snow (Xueyi Huang), originally from Zhuhai, China, is a digital media artist, celebrated for her integrative approach that bridges Eastern philosophy with Western digital practices. Her art delves into the narrative of memory, identity, and emotion through digital expression. She employs technologies like coding, generative art, machine learning, and augmented reality to challenge traditional perceptions and engage audiences actively.
INTERVIEW | Kangqi Zou
Kangqi Zou is a New York-based fashion designer and an esteemed alumna of Parsons School of Design. Her work is recognized for its unique fusion of cultural heritage and contemporary aesthetics, focusing on themes of identity, femininity, and societal roles. Her designs engage in a thoughtful dialogue between form and concept, exploring the nuances of identity and societal roles.
INTERVIEW | Beverley Jane Stewart
Beverley Jane Stewart is a visual artist currently based in the UK. As a visual writer, she looks in intricate detail at how Jewish heritage operates in contemporary multicultural society fusing facts with emotions. She tells stories from past to present, displaying history in its various periods. Her work is now fast gaining international standing, with exhibitions in the United Kingdom, Israel, and Italy.
INTERVIEW | Mo Nan
Mo Nan, a native of China and a 2022 graduate of the prestigious Royal College of Art, is a London-based freelance digital artist. His unique artistic style, which seamlessly blends digital art and fashion design, sets him apart. He specializes in creating personal works and visual and film concept creations for brands, exploring the endless possibilities within these two realms.
INTERVIEW | Chelsea Ning
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.
INTERVIEW | Sonalika Vakili
Sonalika Vakili, born in Tehran, Iran in 1985, is an award-winning visual artist renowned for her groundbreaking photography. She explores the complexities of human identity through her work, challenging conventional notions of self-expression. Her latest project delves into the powerful concept of the female body as a landscape of struggle and resilience.
INTERVIEW | Yun-Chin Wang - Raw2.2
Raw2.2 (Yun-Chin Wang) is a multimedia artist delving into the realms of Asiatic identity, consciousness and technology. Often in the form of videos, music, or performance, her works are surreal confrontations on the incoherence of consciousness steeped deeply in techno-orientalism and introspection. Both eerie and ethereal, her storytelling provides a dreamscape illusion of the paradoxical nature of realities.
INTERVIEW | Yuxuan Gong
Yuxuan Gong is a young artist based in New York and London. With an innate quirkiness, she transforms garments into tangible expressions of identity. Gong's artistic journey is an intimate dance with patternmaking, prints, and textiles, where each stitch and brushstroke captures the essence of her imaginative perspective. Through her creations, she invites the wearer to embrace a wearable narrative, seamlessly fusing art and identity.
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 | Joanna Hoge
Joanna Hoge (she/they) is a queer artist and designer based in Denver, Colorado. They apply their background in psychology and interest in medicine to create works that explore the dynamic between subjective identity and objectifiable body. Hoge's work is largely inspired by the division of somatic and psychological experiences in Western culture.
INTERVIEW | Catarina Diaz
Catarina Diaz is a London-based self-taught exploratory artist, not restrained by conventions or formal ways of interpreting the world. She explores various mediums, techniques, and methods according to her inspiration, dealing with the issues of female identity in contemporary times, the search for our true identity, and the reconnection to nature and essence juxtaposed with urban life and what it represents in our life.
INTERVIEW | Yu Chin Tseng
Born in Taiwan, Asia, Tseng Yu-Chin began his creative career as an experimental filmmaker and now works mainly with video and photography and mixed media installations, living with his partner in Amsterdam and Berlin. His work is based on the human body and the subjective mind, using the body to discuss self-existence, identity, politics, society, and contemporary values.