Chicago-based visual artist and hybrid designer Xiaodong Ma was born in Nanjing, China, in 1991. In the interplay between dimensions, Xiaodong Ma found his canvas for exploration. The art practice of translation between 2D and 3D is fertile ground for experimenting with unknown outcomes, challenging viewers to see and experience familiar forms in unexpected ways.
INTERVIEW | Farrah Li
Farrah Li is a Chinese Photographic and Installation artist based in London. Her creative process revolves around the exploration of materials such as balloons, plastic, strings, and fabric, as she seeks to unearth hidden dimensions and identities within them. By manipulating and transforming these materials, she aims to challenge conventional notions and expand the boundaries of perception.
INTERVIEW | Yixuan Wu
Yixuan Wu is a visual artist, which currently lives and works in New York. Her sculptural arrangements address the subtle gestures that endow the objects of sensual qualities, the incongruous systems, and the uncanny. By weaving personal narratives into multiple cultural references, Yixuan's practice delves into fragmented memories through layered intricacies
INTERVIEW | Forenext Design
Johnny Jiasheng Chen, born in Taichung, Taiwan, is a Chicago-based creative industrial/graphic/UX designer/artist. He is recognized for his innovative design skills and cross-disciplinary practices in design and art. His practice includes digital fabrication, product design, graphic design, and crafts, reflecting on the purpose of design, and seeking new perspectives. He is the founder of the Forenext Design studio.
INTERVIEW | Xinyu Zheng
Xinyu Zheng is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist who frequently draws inspiration from found objects, transforming the world into a type of pictorial memory. She explores the interaction between objects and the human body as a fashion designer. Her work typically entails uncovering items in her environment and expressing them in a primitive and childlike manner.
INTERVIEW | Leslie Garcia Blanco
Leslie García Blanco is a visual artist of Cuban origin who lives between Cuba and Switzerland. His work is characterized by the versatility of his staging as well as his constant concern for the poetics of everyday life. García Blanco finds reasons and procedures that displaces with apparent naturalness and spontaneity to the field of visual arts.
INTERVIEW | Suly Bornstein-Wolff
Suly Bornstein-Wolff creates objects, installations as well as paintings. Usually creating large-scale paintings, her subject varies from landscape to architecture, from figurative to abstract. Esthetics is a major focus in both her paintings and objects. By using readymade material, she emphasizes the quality and the beauty of the object, as if it was a jewel.
INTERVIEW | Thomas Behling
Thomas Behling is a German artist, born in Hanover in 1979. Modeled on found historical (authentic) objects, the objects by Thomas Behling pave the way for insight into the deception and transfiguration of appearances. In them, the viewer is confronted with the socio-historical memory and through specific filters and amplifiers with their private and subjective memory.
INTERVIEW | Marques de Jadraque
Marqués de Jadraque's inspiration comes from living day to day, from his travels, contact with people, what he reads, what he sees in other artists, the conversations he had with friends, and from the cinema. To sum it up, somehow... Right now, Miguel is interested in figurative abstraction, inspired by this spring and the colors of nature.