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.
Luc Vandervelde Lux is a Belgian artist, living and working in Brussels. No material escapes the eye of the artist: carpets, fabrics, plastic, felt, jute, rubber, knitwear, metal or wooden frames, remnants of roofing, tape, or moving blankets are processed in his visual universe. It is a multi-layered world where found objects are freely brought together to relate to each other in new harmony.
Ophira Spitz is a multimedia artist based in Tel Aviv. With a past experience as a Geography teacher, she began making art in her 30s and has continued ever since. Her art includes painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation and is influenced by various aspects such as nature, the environment, and topography. Her work has a strong bond with cartography and geography, and she aims to merge and combine various worlds.
Also known as Bacca, Benjamin Baccarani is a French artist. Bacca's work is a junction between photography and contemporary painting. He strives to transcend the materiality of photographs to make them more performative for the viewer. He works essentially with traditional photography and collage. He feels the need to salvage the images he captures as well as the ones he finds on billboards, subway ads, and old magazines.
Sam He is a multimedia artist whose work mainly swings between interactive sculpture and mixed media installation. Most of Sam’s work is multidisciplinary installations with an underlying perception of cognitive dissonance. It coincides with everyone’s odd phantasm and nihilistic belonging with consequences of displacement and misinformation.
Every technical and philosophical facet of Lorette C. Luzajic’s art is committed to the application of mixed media, redefining the term to include concepts and ideas as well as tangible physical materials. This cross-genre pasticcio is born from and dependent on collage, which naturally experiments with subliminality, intercontextuality and the unexpected narratives that emerge from both playful and planned juxtapositions.
Mary Badalian’s artistic practice is marked by interweaving: of thread, materials, but also driving forces of nostalgia and compulsion. Her process is persistent and repetitive and each piece shelters a story and intense emotions, abstracted and expressed through texture and colour. These works and their process are the artist’s self-expression and self-exploration.
Ryoji Morimoto is a mixed-media artist who was born in Kochi, a rural area of Japan. His simple upbringing infused his childhood with the legacy and lifestyle of coexistence with nature. His works are based on the relationship between something disappearing, changing, and arising with the flow of time and the human being. He often gets inspiration from simple daily life elements, such as the natural world, and visualize the relationship between their background and human beings.
Peter Horvath is a photo-based and New Media artist who was born in Toronto, Canada. Merging street ephemera, movie posters, photographs, ink and spray paint, Horvath's densely layered assemblage portraits reflect his fascination with media consumption, cultural icons, and urban decay. He shares an affinity with the Décollage of the 1960's Nouveau Réalistes Mimmo Rotella and Jacques Villeglé.
