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.
Dawn M Gaietto is a lens-based practitioner working and living in London. Her research is centred on examining small components of nonhuman agency, allowing for momentary lapses in preconceived notions, and exploring the impacts of nonhumans acting upon and influencing humans. Her latest project, Unfixed Consciousness/Positive Unconciousness, analyzes the impact of human activities on ecosystems throughout Alachua County.
Matityahu Neriya is a portrait and wildlife photographer based in Judean Desert, Israel. He constantly searches for emotions, textures, and colors to tell an interesting story. He likes to shoot environmental portraits in difficult-to-reach locations. His captured experiences are the result of remaining open to his surroundings allowing for the subject to evoke the scene and reveal its true essence.
Yien Xu is a Chinese photographer currently based in Los Angeles, California. Art is a tool for the artist to explore the world. It allows him to understand how the world runs, form the whole structure of the world in his mind, and then express his perception of the world via art. Inspired by this, his latest works shifted to a surrealist style based on reality yet differed from it, conveying a false sense of truth.
Maggie Wen 温馨 works mainly with the combination of interview research-based text and photography. She draws a lot of her inspiration from intercultural research. She explores the relationship between words and the environment to understand culture, politics, economics’ influence over human life, and the driving forces behind decisions.
Yulia Artemyeva is a photo-artist from Russia. She creates symbolic series of works that often balance between portrait and still life. The main theme of Yulia's art is death and memories people have of the already gone phenomena. In her latest series, Ballerina and Flowers, she compare flowers to the poses of a classical dance ballerina.
Visual artist Suridh Das-Hassan focus on cultural and ethnic identity as well as memory and movement, particularly within the urban environment. Traditionally, Suridh's work has been about documentation, investigation, and collaboration. His ongoing series Reconstruction Of Self (i) is an intensely personal journey through family, power, colonialism and identity.
Rick Bogacz is a landscapes and street photographer based in Toronto, Canada. Influenced by painters such as Edward Hopper and Canadian Christopher Pratt, Rick’s images will show lone figures walking through the frame or standing alone contemplating their surroundings. Other photographs will emphasize the natural elements themselves but in a solitary way.
Dave Hanson is an artist with a lifelong passion for the medium of photography. He has been intrigued and inspired by everything, from the uniqueness of the human face and body to the historic footprints left by man on the land, or the beauty of the landscape throughout the United States and the world. Dave’s photographs represent the outcome of his vision as translated through the passion of his soul.
Milena Deparis is a French-Argentinian photographer based in the U.K. Her latest series, Hidden Canvases, explores the aesthetic beauty of our world's unseen and hidden images. Hidden Canvases is a motto that has come to encompass her photographic approach and style, as well as her perception of beauty and how she chooses to capture it.
Mallory’s work focuses on collecting and ritual. In the Flowers of the Anthropocene series, she plays the role of an artist / pseudo-naturalist, for she does not create the flowers. She finds them in the waterways created by the forces of nature and clips the flowers to photograph them back in her studio.
Minh Vinh is an American artist based in San Francisco. His work involves a mixture of illustration and design techniques. The artist has devised a number of concepts with various iterations to be a part of the subsequent choosing. The resulting creations were the products of several rounds of shooting and revising physical-world graphic layouts. The pictures that he presents are his personal narratives and commentaries.
Clemens Gritl is a German artist based in Berlin. His work focuses on the interaction between space, dimension, monotony and materiality of urban megastructures. His black and white photorealistic presentations can be aligned with 1960s architecture photography which documents a singular, unbroken optimism and the radical zeitgeist of its era.
Chenglin Xue’s work uses Arduino, processing, Maxmsp, and other interactive software in synergy with photography, video, printmaking, and other media. His work explores the nature of video and objective reality, focusing on the relationship between people and nature, attempting to harness interactive media to explore an invisible reality.
Alejandro Áboli is an award-winning filmmaker and photographer and The RedLine is his debut as an artist. Combining reality with fiction, Áboli reduces images to their simplest forms to capture the delicate relationship between real and imaginary worlds. The Redline photos catch the viewer’s eye using a contemporary theme and creating a comfortable ambiguity between reality and fantasy and spiced with a touch of humor.
Tris Bucaro is a visual artist whose practice confronts self-image, intimacy, and gesture through photography, film, sculpture, and performance. His research considers the location of the self within an image and the oscillation between totality and impermanence, utilizing the self-portrait as a means of examining the regenerative nature of a photograph.
Beatriz Montes, or better known as Ruska, is a visual artist, photographer, illustrator, video artist, and performer born in Madrid, Spain, that shows violence and experimental ethnography through those disciplines. Her references are based on video art and films, with artists such as Bill Viola, Alan Berlirner, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Sadie Benning, or Jonas Mekas.
Camila Rodríguez Triana (Cali, 1985) is a visual artist and filmmaker. Rodríguez Triana's work reflects on identity. She is interested in the inherited ancestral culture and how we re-appropriate that culture to make it our own. She is interested in the words “re-appropriation” and “re-elaboration” that imply recognizing something past to transform it into the present.
Art Magazine, Laura Romero is a multidisciplinary artist, based in Mexico. With a very intimate work, through her own experiences, she reflects the most personal side of everyday life, provoking a second glance and subjecting it to intense reflection. Over the past few years, through her art she has been questioning the territory she lives in, building a new identity, her identity. #digital #art #photography #urban
