INTERVIEW | YunRay Chung

INTERVIEW | YunRay Chung

Coming from a medical background, YunRay studies fashion design in New York after he finished his Bachelor’s Degree in Physical Therapy in Taiwan. He uses second-hand garments deconstruction, performances, installation, and films to tell the narratives of his vision. He uses his work to speak to social issues, but also human emotions and experiences.

INTERVIEW | Nicolas Vionnet

INTERVIEW | Nicolas Vionnet

Vionnet is fascinated by such irritations: interventions that approach and create a non-hierarchical dialogue with the environment. This discussion opens up a field of tension, which allows the viewer an intensive glimpse of both these phenomena. Vionnet uses the same approach and the same strategy for his installations and objects. Irritation and integration.

INTERVIEW | Yar

INTERVIEW | Yar

Yar creates in a variety of techniques, from analog collage to digital illustration, from motion collages to mixed media graphics. Yar's works are dreamlike and thought-provoking, he experiments with surreal figurative imagery, finding inspiration in southern gothic aesthetics, street culture, turn-of-the-century esoteric narratives, and psychedelia.

INTERVIEW | Pedro Inock

INTERVIEW | Pedro Inock

Pedro works in the fields of video art, video performance, installation, and painting. Throughout his work, the analysis and observation of issues such as place, memory, and human condition make up for a large part of the process. “Contained Turbulence” deploys memory and place (or absence of) and possibility as groundwork as it challenges the bitterness and hostile condition of the postmodern human.

INTERVIEW | Ruocong Ma

INTERVIEW | Ruocong Ma

Ruocong Ma examines the contradiction and correlation of spiritual strength, human body, sexual representation, and feminism in our society, working on oil painting, performance, and sculpture. Her erotic portrait painting often employs domineering poses, vivid colors, creative lighting, and tight costume as symbolism for implying audiences about complex class power.

INTERVIEW | Elizabeth Withstandley

INTERVIEW | Elizabeth Withstandley

Elizabeth Withstandley is from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, she lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Her projects take on the form of artifacts by their simplification and classification, frequently like relics from the natural history museum, and questions individuality while presenting a portrait of a person, a group of people, or a specific culture.

INTERVIEW | Philip McKay

INTERVIEW | Philip McKay

A self-taught award-winning digital artist from Liverpool, UK. Inspired by the surrealist Rene Magritte and graphic designer storm Thorgerson, who was known for designing music album covers for pink Floyd. Philip describes the art he creates as idiotic with scenes of unreality and imaginary places that come from his imagination.

INTERVIEW | Giovanni De Benedetto

INTERVIEW | Giovanni De Benedetto

Giovanni De Benedetto works with photography, video art, and music. His projects have multiple points of view. The observer is an active part of the creative process, and each artwork shakes the spectator from the inside. Starting from 2012, he took part in several solos and collective exhibitions with his main project PREMATURE, exhibiting in cities like Venice, Paris, Miami Beach, Berlin, and Bangkok

INTERVIEW | O. Yemit Tubi (MOYAT)

INTERVIEW | O. Yemit Tubi (MOYAT)

Nigerian born, American trained Artist based in UK with a creative and unique personal style. He paints in acrylic and watercolor, but his favored medium is oil paints. Most of Moyat's recent paintings were influenced by the political and social upheaval of our world today and the works of the Renaissance artists. The uprising in the Arab world is what influenced O Yemi Tubi's first political painting "ARAB REVOLUTION" in 2012

INTERVIEW | Abdo Hassan

INTERVIEW | Abdo Hassan

Abdo Hassan is a Visual artist, based in Cairo, Egypt. Specialized in digital visual arts, digital collages, and mixed media, Abdo hassan’s collages images with artistic vision following no rules, making artworks with wild colors and surreal concepts. This expression has no boundaries, and this is the freedom he finds in the surreal and collage arts.

INTERVIEW | Ale Shack

INTERVIEW | Ale Shack

Every time Ale takes a sheet and ink; she feels the task of portraying the soul, feelings, fears, and desires of a person, a situation, or a memory. Her work is based on details: "Everything is composed of small things that together create great wonders." Therefore, in her work has a purpose, many times, some details will be invisible to the eye, but that contribute significantly to her work.

INTERVIEW | Timea Szőke

INTERVIEW | Timea Szőke

Timka Szőke is a Hungarian artist. She was born in Budapest. Her versatility unfolds in illustration, lead glass design, and photography. Her artworks are inspired by the antique art trends, most notably Renaissance, Expressionism, Baroque, Symbolism, and Art Nouveau, also the cartoons and comics. She displays the facial mimicry that she spices with natural charm in her works

INTERVIEW | Macha Ovtchinnikova

INTERVIEW | Macha Ovtchinnikova

French filmmaker and researcher from Russia. She's also writing and teaching at University the cinema aesthetics and video art. Experimenting with different film genres and mediums – documentary, fiction, experimental video – Macha Ovtchinnikova questions the notion of the time and its investment in the film forms.

INTERVIEW | Stephanie Zwerschke

INTERVIEW | Stephanie Zwerschke

Stephanie Zwerschke draws her inspiration from all her surroundings that incorporate nature, fragility, age, and beauty in decay. She experiments with the rather unusual painting media steel plates and rust. The artist transfers the metaphorical value of rusting steel to the level of her art through the images she displays.

INTERVIEW | Pablo Von Goethe

INTERVIEW | Pablo Von Goethe

Fascinated by Michelangelo and Pablo Picasso. Pablo Von Goethe work emerges from the eyes of the protagonists of his stories that always cite the verses of being. The works created over the years have profound contents that invite the viewer to dive into the created worlds to search for the messages and the mediated values.

INTERVIEW | feeleash

INTERVIEW | feeleash

feeleash (M. Andresakis) actively works in music as well as the international publishing scene, implementing all types of digital graphics and video. Michael combines incompatible worlds into a new universe, increasing the dynamics between the audience and the author, investigating the duality that develops through different interpretations.

INTERVIEW | Ayse U Akarca

INTERVIEW | Ayse U Akarca

Ayse U Akarca is a Turkish scientist who balances making art with her career in research at one of the world’s leading institutions at UCL. Working with different cancer tissues, faced with the reality of what this disease is and the effect it has on people’s lives, Ayse thinks about mortality – and the fine line that exists between life and death.

INTERVIEW | Augusto Poderosi

INTERVIEW | Augusto Poderosi

Augusto Poderosi was born in Rome. He works eclectically in the fields of figurative and audiovisual arts. Augusto started his activity in the laboratories of scenography at the Cinecitta Studios. He is also a sculptor, painter and restorer to the holy see he realizes numerous artistic patronage for the Basilica Papale di S.Paolo Fuori le Mura, di S.Antonio di Padova, Basilica Del Cristo Re (Rome) for the Vatican City and various other Roman churches.

INTERVIEW | Pablo Ruiz Ortiz

INTERVIEW | Pablo Ruiz Ortiz

Pablo Ruiz Ortiz, a Spanish artist, was born in Santander in 1974. His work develops photography inside a sculpture (a 3D cube). It is a complex work that shows the content and the argument. The artist’s influence directed by the brand of a multinational companies that he works for.

INTERVIEW | Aïda Schweitzer

INTERVIEW | Aïda Schweitzer

Aïda Schweitzer is a Franco-Egyptian performance artist. She lives and works between Luxembourg and Brussels. Without learning in art school, her confusing work is based on "a no" partitioning, a distance from a formatted model, and challenges the established codes. Committed and feminist, her work plunges us into a poetic interiority of pure lines, a legacy of her travels in Asia.