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.
Zihao Zhou is a Chinese fashion designer based in London. His art explores the connections between the macro and the micro, revealing the hidden wonders of the world. In 2024, he took a leap of faith and launched his own eponymous brand, Illogic, in London. With a blend of traditional craftsmanship and contemporary aesthetics, Zihao aims to carve his unique mark in the fashion industry.
Tong Tong is a cutting-edge fashion designer and creative based in New York City. Tong's designs draw inspiration from a rich tapestry of influences, including personal memories, a profound passion for fashion history, and an adventurous exploration of materials. His collection Home Alone draws inspiration from a cherished childhood memory, the clandestine explorations into his parents' wardrobe.
Qibai Ting is an artist currently based in Beijing and London. Her practice mainly focuses on narrative objects and sculptural installations. Qibai is interested in stargazing activities, and she considers her works as “constellations”. Living very close to forests and mountains, she identifies with the philosophy of nature and practices within landscape.
Alice Zakharenko is a London-based interdisciplinary artist, who works in print media, papermaking, painting and drawing. Exploring the temporal qualities of repetition and difference, Zakharenko’s bodies of work explore memory, movement, rhythm, time and identity. She investigates how individuals measure time through their bodies and in the environment without relying on technologies.
Sára Kasanová Bown is a visual artist specializing in photography, video, and installation media. Her work explores themes, including the non-linear perception of time, vulnerability, and human connection, reflecting a deep engagement with the human experience. Her latest series was created in the spring of 2023 and 2024 after moving from the city of Prague to the suburbs.
Shiyao Xia is a mixed media artist based in London, UK. She explores the concept of what is remembered as ephemeral and influenced by experiences felt at the time of observation. Her work is inspired by the small, unassuming things in the corner of our eyes that hold a multitude of hidden narratives. Looking for the relationship between memories and multiple meanings.
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.
Patrícia Abreu is a Brazilian visual artist. Themes about Time, Memory, and the Natural World are a constant presence in her work. She has always been interested in the mysteries of Nature's life, which is covered beyond the visible surfaces that envelopes what we see and blur what we imagine. Her series of photographs titled Echoing Humanity was shot in Cisco, a ghost town in Utah, USA, in January 2019.
Billy De Luca is a non-fiction and short story writer and visual artist practising in Madrid. His fields of knowledge are based in the arts and culture spheres, including fashion, contemporary and modern art, and travel. His cultural background has heavily influenced his perspectives. In this article, he delves into the production and ultimately the core meaning of Japanese conceptual artist On Kawara.
Marina Wittemann is a Russian artist, currently based in Germany. Her art is inspired by the ability to perceive the world through complex experiences of color, space, and time. This volumetric pictorial color field is an opportunity to perceive events, feelings, and emotions through synesthesia. She works with paintings as well as sculptures and is influence by various different cultures and techniques.
Aristo Vopĕnka explores the boundaries between photography, illustration, painting, and print. Using an experimental attitude towards these different media, new forms of expression take place. They are the beginning of a contemporary reinterpretation of expressionism which he has started to call experiential expressionism.
Ekaterina Zhingel is inspired by articles on scientific hypotheses and discoveries in physics and neurobiology. Her latest series is devoted to the nonlinearity of time. In the series, Ekaterina was photographed against the background of the street and kept this moment for herself. She left no more trace. This photo is the only proof of her short presence at this place.
Hermano Noronha is more interested in the symptom than in the evidence, in reaching what is under the obvious. He is interested in the vortex of time and how the plurality of individual memories is combined in the building of collective memory. Through the identification and photographic registration of symbolic markers, he seeks to build archives against oblivion.
