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.
江峰 Jiang Feng performance works have been presented at various venues, including Itinerant Performance Art Festival, Movement Research at the Judson Church, "Thinking Its Presence" conference hosted by the University of Arizona, Exponential Festival, Dance Research Forum Ireland, HOT! Festival at Dixon Place, New Work Series at Tada! Theater, Gibney Dance, La MaMa Galleria, Waxworks at Triskelion Arts, BAAD!, Hudson Guild Theater, and Odyssey Dance Theater in Singapore.
Cate Wind creates sculptures and installations that reveal correlations between modern knowledge and ancient systems of belief. She assembles refined materials such as metal, glass, or resin with discarded found objects including gearwheels, vintage herbariums, or religious textiles. Fascinated by the interaction of materials with different feels and auras, her sculptures can be described as experiments that try to investigate the internal energies of various matters and how they affect each other.
As a woman with four children, home birthed two of the four, and homeschooled all through high school, Karen Ghostlaw's creative output inspires others and provides a platform for creative and independent thinking. This daunting task came with more rewards than sacrifices, and Karen found that sacrifice leads to growth. She found herself again through her photography, looking at herself, a study that started twelve years ago and continues today.
Joana Alarcão brings awareness to the corrosive social alienation toward the environment and even human beings. The contrasts of how nature is consecutively part of the human species and human reaction toward it led her sculptures and drawings to be mostly human referenced and made with naturally made materials. The friction behind these two arguments is a major aspect of her practice.
By researching the narration of photography and unveiling hidden histories, Beichen Zhang’s work is a set of a visual experience of a metaphorical and poetic method through personal narratives. Through the research of archaeology and anthropology, history, art, and other disciplines, he examines and builds a poetic visual language with its thoughts.
Mike Steinhauer is a photographer, conceptual artist, blogger, and arts administrator who is keenly interested in the environment within which he lives. Mike is particularly interested in the relationship between past and present use (and perception) of object and space. His most recent work is an investigation into memory—both as it is created and re-experienced.
Leah Oates has a B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design and a M.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is a Fulbright Fellow for graduate study at Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland. Thus, the world appears to be a complicated tissue of events in which connections of different kinds of alternate, overlap, or combine and thereby determine the texture of the whole. All phenomena are processes, connections, all is in flux, and at moments this flux is visible.
Doug Winter is a fine art and editorial photographer focusing on social awareness working in both abstract and representational photography. He is best known for his large-scale abstract photographic images on dye-infused aluminum panels. "I'm a curious perfectionist," he has said. "The work is inspired by light and reflective colors in nature.
With an education in Bauhaus architecture, fine art, and music composition, Paul Lorenz has carved an intriguing niche in the international art world: bridging the immediacy of drawing, sound performance, music, and digital collage with the logic and detail of architecture. All media are a balance of physical structure; visual structure; and color, whether overt or atmospheric, allowing the creative process to be the final subject
Flor de Placebo is a photo-poetic project developed in April 2020, during the quarantine period. It represents different ways of facing confinement when exiled from nature. In addition, Flor de Placebo reflects on the importance of art during the most difficult moments of any human being and the crucial yet subtle relationship of people with their natural surroundings.
Vicky Martin explores her fascination with identity and the emotions created by considered scenarios based on both fantasy and reality. Her work explores identity through staging and creating realities for characters who often display conflicting emotions with situations. Vicky seeks to encourage the viewer to ask questions of her work to which ultimately, the answers depend on the viewer's identity and perceptions.
Lexi Sun is a Chinese born multidisciplinary artist, photographer, and art director based in Berlin. Lexi senses rhythm and repetition as the rhizome of her art practice. Throughout her practice, combining installation, performance, photography, moving image, and sound, she explores the rhythm of folding, unfolding, and refolding the repetition.
Carmel Ilan is an obsessive collector of abandoned texts. This no man's land of abandoned books is an interesting position for her to start. Working with paper requires attention to the delicacy, crispness, and fragility of the material. Carmel’s images grow out of folded fields of paper. Reading is transformed into observation. The papers, carriages of text, preserve the material memory from which they came, and at the same time, grow into a new language.
Often referencing European history, Ivan Cáceres’ work explores the varying relationships between forms, geometries, and composition that shape the places we live in. His compositions are usually frontal, geometrical, from a certain distance, assuming a neutral position. Historical memory and disappearance are issues that are always present in Cáceres’ photos.
As an artist working mainly with porcelain and embroidery, Aodan strives to explore, redefine and externalize femininity and “femaleness”. With highly detailed and intricate techniques, she endeavors to show the complicated tableaux with aggressiveness, gentleness, fragility, softness, toughness, struggles, emotions, and pain within femininity and female gender in delicate and cryptic looks.
Thomas C. Chung’s artistic practice is about seeing the world through a child's eyes, having dealt with their dreams and anxieties in previous years - food, toys, paintings, drawings, and art installations being the mediums that he has used. At its deepest level, he is researching the childlike psyche as a way of understanding the world as an empath.
Christopher Fluder is a New York based poet who's experimenting with the visual arts. Christopher examines contrast and dichotomy. Eschewing artistic conventions, he captures features of real life as they occur — whether beautiful or horrifying. His photographs have exhibited in New York, Budapest, Barcelona, Glasgow, and London.
Born in New York City, Alec Von Bargen is a multidisciplinary artist, a social anthropologist of sorts. He captures aesthetic instances resonating true with their historical, political, and social contexts. Although his research is meticulous, he does not prep, pre-produce, light, or arrange for the photographic shoots leading to the creation of his murals, installations, and video pieces.
