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.
A native of Saguenay in Canada, Sue Vo-Ho stands out as a photographer through her approach to memory and evanescence. The melancholy of open spaces inspires her work. Sue Vo-Ho finds her inspiration in the emptiness of nature or cities. Her preferred themes revolve around the desert, buildings, the ocean, urban landscapes and city walls and are tinged with a hint of melancholy.
Omar Reyna is a Canadian artist exploring chemical as well as digital photography and mixing it with sculptural elements and other art practices. Omar Reyna sees his art practice as an act of contriving worlds beyond the visible, between the real and the imagined. He aims to trigger events and actions that connect, disturb and question what we perceive.
Zaccheo Zhang is a Chinese artist studying in the United States. She is convinced that the characteristics of photographic materials are the elements that make photography diversified and rejuvenated. At the same time, she believes that her creative, experimental methods have allowed photography to go back to the close relationship with science and reborn from it to a unique way of artistic expression.
Joanna Wlaszyn is a Polish-French interdisciplinary artist, teacher, and researcher based in Paris. Her work fuses visual language with conceptual experiments. She attempts to create alternative interpretations in response to a constantly evolving post-digital culture. She challenges perception and representation through video, installations, digital art, and hybrid drawings and paintings.
Jayakar Priyadharshan is a Contemporary Speculative Architect of Indian origin currently in the UK. He is well known for his works in the field of architectural aesthetic practice. One of his famous works is what he calls the invisible building (A building facade that can hide from the eyes of Artificial Intelligence), where he talks about the flipsides of artificial intelligence and countering the rise of AI.
José Luis Ramírez is a Mexican painter, currently based in Durango, Mexico. One of the characteristics of his work is a sense of freedom, so his artwork is surrounded by key characters from his daily life as a group of random characters who tell their own story but at the same time, they combine into one, creating a deconstructed social analysis that critiques our time.
WiseTwo is a Kenyan Multi-Disciplinary Artist. WiseTwo’s artwork takes a critical view of social and cultural issues. Often referencing ancient civilizations and the invisible connection between people and cultures, WiseTwo’s work reproduces familiar visual and aural signs, arranging them into new conceptually layered murals and paintings.
Jose Cruzio’s research addresses different concepts such as the continuous questioning of the "place" as far as artistic creation is concerned. It will bring about both collaborative practices and individual ones, and it unfolds in different projects, each one recurring to a dominant artistic subject matter and its media, practices, and achievements according to the research lines of each one of them.
Syl Arena is a California-based artist known for his explorations of non-representational photography. He freely admits that he is addicted to color and shadow. In his current series, Constructed Voids, Arena deconstructs white light into vibrant hues and mixes them onto monochromatic constructs. Through the intersection of light, construct, and lens, Arena finds transformative relationships that he describes as “inner landscapes.”
Patrick Vandecasteele explores the physical, psychological and social posture of humans, the various costumes they wear to dress their intimate hiatuses. He tries to restore the spontaneity of human posture, its fleetingness, the unconscious that inhabits a body and its outfit, the links between composure and thoughts, gestures and intentions, mental melee.
He paint our struggle to face others, to approach others, the struggle between our multiple intimacies, between our imperative of life in society, of submission to servitudes and the imperative need for autonomy, individuality.
Lucrezia Rossi is an Italian photographer based in Berlin, Germany. In her work, Lucrezia photographs staged self-portraits, and daily life encounters by combining humor with reality and intimacy with softness. By re-signifying her past experiences through her images, this search for meaning becomes present, honest, delicate, and light. For Al-Tiba9 she is presenting her latest series, “My Traviata”.
Fan de Fantástica is a Film Director, Collage Maker, and Multi-Talented Artist currently based in Madrid, Spain. In her funky, playful, and over the top imaginary world of mixed media collages, there are numerous details of traditional far east philosophies and contemporary western point of views. One way or another, she has mixed all her 'weird' personal experiences into her collage creations.
Anastasia Golovneva is a Russian painter, currently based in Moscow. Anastasia lived for many years with Khanty indigenous northern people side by side. Her work deals with the Ugric world. Harmonious, but so fragile, it was destroyed in just a couple of decades because of oil production. Anastasia believes that it is necessary to know and understand the consequences of oil production and depicts it in her art.
Imelda Wei Ding Lo is a multi-disciplinary writer, artist, podcaster, and game developer who is passionate about environmentalism, technology, alternative health, and above all, story-telling mediums that explore character psychology and development. Her latest project is the graphic novel “The Book of Joel”.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
