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.
Rana Huwais is a mixed-media artist specializing in printmaking and soft sculpture. In her work, Rana explores ideas of nostalgia, childhood, memory, and the complexity of being a second-generation immigrant from a nation currently undergoing the trauma of war. Formally, she engages with these themes with the use of bright colors, expressionistic and childlike mark-making, cultural motifs like the evil eye and Arabic script.
Qi Zhuang (1999, China) is an interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and animator based in London, United Kingdom. Her project 未知晓 Unknown is a semi-improvised live performance created with costumes as a starting point, combining visual art, dance, music, installation and performing art. The concept of the work comes from a conversation with a monk.
Nanxi Jin is an interdisciplinary artist who works with clay. As a Chinese artist living in the United States for the past decade, Nanxi Jin has grappled with the tension between her early years in China and her art education in the US. This juxtaposition has greatly influenced her artistic journey, as she now combines her appreciation for harmony with the vibrant colors, conceptual leanings, and Eastern gestures and Western aesthetics.
Hee Jung Han is a visual artist living and working in South Korea. Her newest series, “Landscape of Pli,” is a process of exploring the ‘multiplicity’ inherent in humans living in the hyper-connected era where truth and lies, real and fake, are mixed. This this ever-changing landscape reminds her that the truth she knows or understands can be meaningless.
Chun Han is a photographer and creative director based in New York. Chun has been creating works focus on Asian women's social dilemmas, photographing Asian women and women's bodies, especially her self-portraits. Her other studio and video work were largely impacted by her theatre background by staging contrasting colors and theatrical effects in the images.
Ben Quesnel is a multimedia artist and educator producing work in Stamford, Connecticut. He deconstructs and distorts objects from his everyday experience, apprehending the meanings that have been attached to the items and evaluating them with a new understanding. Through the deliberate placement of these objects in unexpected ways, Quesnel creates a sense of bewilderment, a disruption to challenge certainties and confront preconceptions.
Kaiqi Wang, born and raised in China, is an established fashion and accessory designer based in the Bay Area. Her recent collection ‘Metamorphosis’ is inspired by the post-COVID burnout and the emotional struggles that the public is experiencing but with a message of hope and transformation. While it has been a challenging time, she believes that it has also been a time of growth and metamorphosis.
Jiawei Fu is an Interior Designer and Painter, born in Guangzhou, China, and now living in Los Angeles, USA. Jiawei's practice depicts mundanity and emptiness through a surrealized reality to wake up subconsciousness and create new conversations between people. In her latest series, Deceitful Lovers, she uses a delicate palette to expose the sugar-coated modern ignorance and relentlessness in all beings.
Milena Jovicevic is a multidisciplinary artist from Montenegro. Her work is inspired by everyday life situations and paradoxes of contemporary society and the world we live in, that strange place saturated with the media, exaggerated production, and consumption. She works as a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje, Montenegro.
Massimiliano Cambuli is a photographer who lives and works between Brussels (Belgium) and Cagliari (Italy). His recent body of work focuses on nudity, which is not the core of his works but rather a phase: “just a narrative ploy,” he says. In a mix of exploration, experimentation, and research, he pushed these works to the extreme borders of graphisms to transfigure reality and drive the viewer beyond aestheticisms.
Hyoju Cheon is an explorer and interdisciplinary artist currently residing in New York. Her multimedia practice responds to the conditions of a site. Her work documents bodies as they move through space: drawing their trajectories and archiving the material traces left behind. Her recent works create surrogates and obstructions for her body, recording her movements as kinetic loops.
Kwabena Ofori-Darkwa is a self-taught Ghanaian photographer whose work is based on concepts focusing on nature and its relation and significance to humanity as part of a personal quest to seek a deeper understanding of various aspects of life as has been found as well as to build on the continuous rise of African contemporary photography to add different nuances and perspectives in subsequent conversations.
Wenhui Jiang (Untitled-egg) s a visual artist and graphic designer who works with multi-disciplinary subjects and media. As a queer, she always has a radical perspective on observing and experiencing the world. Strong satire is characteristic of her work. In her practice, she takes herself as the object of observation and uses her work as a tool to research the context of the era and society behind the individual.
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.
Ruchita Newrekar is a jewelry designer and contemporary jewelry artist. Despite her success in the commercial realm, she remains dedicated to her artistic roots and continues to create one-of-a-kind pieces that showcase her unique artistic voice. Her personal artworks delve deeper into the exploration of connections, emotions, and the transformative power of jewelry.
Mark Louis Walters is an American-born artist, designer, and art director. Mark paints grand theatrical works that juxtapose found images, words, and occasionally found objects. His pieces play with multiple meanings of images and words, often incorporating humor or slang definitions. His paintings are frequently completed with sculptural frames he creates to extend both the picture plane itself as well as the possible narrative meanings.
Robert van de Graaf is a Dutch visual artist living and working in The Hague, the Netherlands. He is interested in the connections and relations between the mystical in this world, in all its manifestations (the sea, the sky, nature, human-built environments, light and darkness), the sense and the dimension of the spiritual world and our soul. Each piece gives substance to his ongoing journey to seek meaning in life.
Polin Huang is a mixed-media painter based in New York City. Huang's paintings are a critique of female stereotypes, racism, and the influence of advertising media, language, and local culture. Her work considers the youth of today, who are often depressed about life or overly pursuing vague philosophies. These analyses are all told through cartoonish characters with bright colors, glittery accents, and a humorous gaze.
Sunny Liu is a filmmaker, pianist/composer, and animator. Her work utilizes intimate storytelling to give a voice to the underrepresented. Her latest project, Pianoman, touches upon significant social issues in a non-trauma-based, sensitive cinema verite style. It illustrates the emotional journey the subjects experience, ranging from deep pain to poignant tenderness.
SuJung Jo is a Brooklyn-based artist who works with photography, woodworking, and sculpture. Jo uses organza to veil her images, both as a psychological strategy but also an innovative growth in her approach to photography. In doing so, she stretches the boundaries of the two-dimensional photography and integrates it with the three-dimensional possibilities of sculpture.
