Thomas C. Chung is a Chinese-Australian contemporary artist based in Helsinki & Sydney. His latest project, the exhibition The Sea That Stands Before Me…, contemplates the notion of one's devotion to living as a form of armament. Chung's conceptual practice continues its inquiries into psychology, folklore, mythology, and philosophy, binding them as a cohesive tale.
Jewan Goo is a research-based photographer who focuses on reexamining and reconstructing the fading history of Korea during the Japanese colonial period. His work is deeply connected to contemporary issues within institutional archives and history education, which are often biased and subject to political control or censorship by governmental or educational authorities.
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.
Emmanuelle Becker is a visual artist and photographer based in Paris. Emmanuelle Becker's photographic work explores the selective nature of memory and the impact of emotions on how the brain prioritizes and retains information. Becker has an intimist look at her subjects to create her singular dreamlike imagery. Her fascination with dreams and the unconscious is at the heart of her creative process.
Hui Long is a photographer and creative director who brings a unique perspective to the art world. Her work focuses on themes exploring femininity and self-discovery, using her own personal experiences and memories as a source of inspiration. Through her art, she invites viewers to delve into the complexity of the human experience and to consider how our past experiences shape and define us.
Sri Aditya is a Chennai-based Indian artist who aims to explore the narrative of regions and personalities of people through digital media. Whether it be film photography, graphics, or presentation, the artist manages to seep through intricate places and markets as one who is adept at traveling. His art centres around the dynamic play of light and darkness, a blend of neutral colour schemes and geometric patterns.
Kon Markogiannis is an experimental photographer-mixed media artist with an interest in themes such as memory, mortality, spirituality, the human condition, the exploration of the human psyche, and the evolution of consciousness. He embraces the indexical qualities of photography and its immediate impact on the viewer, but what he is mainly concerned with are the ways “reality” can be transformed.
Chihyang Hsu is an interdisciplinary artist who works with photography, video, painting, and installation. His color blindness is the seed of his creativity. As a result, he complicates visual communication and embodies the uncertainty and ambiguity he constantly encounters. In this thermal photo project, he took photos at parks, museums, gyms, supermarkets, subway stations, and zoos.
Yu Yan is a visual artist based in New York, United States. Primarily working with researched-based projects and site-specific installations, she follows intuitive research pursuits across a variety of disciplines and disparate systems of knowledge. She is interested in the connectedness between personal memory and collective urban scenes, addressing issues around immigration and the diaspora community.
Claire-louise Pitman is an eco-conscious, disabled, cameraless artist. This is done by using sustainable photographic light processes such as chlorophyll printing, cyanotype printing, and scanography, meaning no harm has been done to the environment. Through her research on visual impairment and Anomia Claire-louise expands her knowledge but still faces accessible barriers along the way.
Shou-An Chiang currently lives and works in London. She works across photography, video, performance, and installation, in which she explores the ambiguity of relationships and identities, and portrays alienation in a pluralistic society from her own experience. Her recent project, QUEERASIAN, portrays queer Asian people in Western society, and aims to show the faces and stories of these communities from an insider's perspective.
Mariana Arrieta Ibarra is 29 years old and Mexican photographer. Her project Central de Abastos was shot in Querétaro, a city in the center of México. It documents the market called “Mercado de Abastos”. This market is responsible for all the products that the rest of the markets in the city sell, making it the most important. It is a bustling place, without a single minute of silence between its busy streets.
Aleš Jungmann is a photographer from Czech Republic. After a long artistic abstinence, which he interrupted only sporadically, he is now intensively returning to landscape photography. With new energy and passion, influenced by his work as an architectural photographer and using the same medium format digital camera technique, he understand landscape photography as an exploration.
Audrey Messas is a French-Israeli mixed media artist of Moroccan descent. She lives in Tel Aviv and works at an intersection of visual art and embodiment practices. Her creations include photography, acrylic and oil paint, collages, and calligraphy. Her evolving work addresses more urgent collective issues, such as culture wars and ecological collapse.
Xuemeng Zhang is a visual artist whose practice is driven by exploring connections between the mind and the eye. Her work navigates between identity and culture, belonging and alienation, and apprehension and mindfulness. Zhang was born in Beijing, and currently lives and works in New York City. Her latest project, Other Rooms, is a photographic project on the reconstruction of imaginary spaces.
Mihail Vuchkov is a Bulgarian artist. His latest project, The Other Bulgarian Women premiered in Sofia, Bulgaria, on International Women's Day, and it sparked a national controversy. The project show trans women in traditional Bulgarian dress and wreathed in Bulgarian flowers as a statement of national identity. It is a statement being hotly contested by nationalist groups and parties in the country.
Koo J is a South Korean artist, currently based in Seoul, South Korea. She works on photography with a warm color film camera. The loneliness and anxiety of everyday life in the crushed image, while recalling the feeling of excitement, also express various emotions, such as moments of the past and fears and expectations for the future. For painting, she works on abstractions to convey emotions.
Hao Wen Chung, also known as Claudia, is a graphic designer and artist who was born in Taiwan and currently splits her time between residing in Taipei, Taiwan, and Brooklyn, New York. Although she is an accomplished designer with an eye for precision, her photography and ceramic artworks reveal another side of her that is emotive, free-spirited, and exquisite. The naturalness of things can be seen in Claudia's artwork.
Gulbin Ozdamar Akarcay tries to understand the cultural, ideological, environmental, and sociological order of the world, as well as the ordinary structures of daily life, by reading, using and producing images, which will hopefully open up new doors to the future. She uses photography to conduct visual ethnographic research.
Liu Entung artist from Taipei, Taiwan, and currently lives in New York City. As an interdisciplinary artist, ENTUNG’s works explore the intersection of multiple fields: visual art, performance, and technology with various methods like paintings, photography, performances, installations, videos, and sounds. Through her art practice, LIU shows the relationships between identification, technology, nature, and life.
Daniela Castillo is a photographer and graphic designer based in Lima, Peru. She specializes in landscapes and still life. Her series "Extension Interior" emerges as a reinterpretation of internal reality in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. With the mind as the protagonist, this project captures the deterioration of the mental state resulting from confinement through projections that question the limits between fiction and reality.
Andrea Anderson Gluckman is an international award-winning photographer and writer who uses her platforms of academics, activism, and art to witness and leverage the stories of communities devastated by mass violence. She is currently based out of Rochester, New York, where she teaches and works collaboratively with artistic communities on issues of social justice, indigenous truth-telling, and anti-racism work.
Marco Lando's work is influenced by his New York theatre background. Combining existential plot lines, dramatic lighting, and surrealist stage design, the otherworldly mise-en-scenes he creates operate on a visceral, symbolic level. His latest series, the post-apocalyptic realm of Alchemy, evokes a timeless spiritual abyss where atonement and purification seem forever out of reach.
