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.
Nick Metz is focused on the role of masculinity in society and what “compromises” masculinity. What traditionally “feminine” actions or objects impact virility? What makes a man a man? Who/What determines masculinity? Why does society label and condemn men who step outside the general guidelines of masculinity? Metz explores these concepts and themes throughout his work in light of his own experiences and quandaries with these models.
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.
Christina Michalopoulou’s paintings are figurative, realistic human figures, and body parts in surrealistic environments. Christina often likes to bring realism, sometimes even photorealism, of her figures contrasting with an abstract, pop, or fictional background—a play of surrealism resemblance to a collage.
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.
Jenny Day (1981) is a painter who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. How many ways can one approach mourning? Jenny Day has tried to jest at it, deconstruct it, cover loss in trashy glamour and glitter, and reassemble it, so the source material is only hinted at—an assemblage of Instagram snippets and sad wry and sour jokes and heartbreak.
Contemporary Art Magazine, Interview. Salvatore Esposito is an Italian artist based in London, UK. Salvatore tends to use upcycled material in almost all his works, trying to picture an abstract urban view without human- being direct presence; though what remains is still the sign of his/her interventions.
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.
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.
The exploration of the essence of materiality is the driving force throughout Webson Ji's artistic career. His background as a competitive swimmer during his youth contributes to his perspective on water's nature and movement. As such, Ji's practice focuses on presenting this substance, combining it with various industrial materials to present the viewer with a unique interpretation of his meditation.
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.
Tabata Bandin is a multidisciplinary Mexican artist. Her work is based on the same discourse that she has approached and developed through different mediums such as drawing, video, photography, and objets d'art. Tabata has had academic and hands-on training in visual arts, philosophy, psychology, and sociology, disciplines that involve and give structure to my work.
Born in Valladolid, Spain in 1958, currently develops his artistic activity between the cities of Córdoba and Denia. His work develops from dialogue as an inescapable formula for the common construction of possible realities. His art vision considers the subtlety of language and the synthesis of meanings as essential characteristics for an energetic and peaceful expression at the same time.
Ruthorn Rujianurak is a self-taught painter from Thailand, whose works are collaged with a variety of surfaces, including cotton canvas, bristol paper, blotting paper, tissue paper, and wood panel. After living and working in New York City for two years. Ruthorn moved back to his hometown and currently based in Bangkok. His works have been featured in multiple shows in several counties such as Thailand, USA, China, and Korea.
Elinor' Shapiro, an American artist from Los Angeles who works on top of the large canvas and mixed media pieces. The figures in Elinor Shapiro's work are raw and disconnected. The combined mediums give her the ability to render them with detail and disintegrate them with a line. As a code, there are words and phrases layered into the paint.
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.
Naomi Even-Aberle is a multi-disciplinary artist living in South Dakota (USA) who uses performance art, digital technology, and martial arts practices to explore female roles in contemporary society. Her art practice involve performative elements, interdisciplinary media processes embedded within her martial arts philosophy of understanding and establishing learning strategies for the body, mind, and spirit.
Rita Hisar Canadian abstract painter based in Toronto Canada. Rita Hisar is also inspired by the bold colors of the Caribbean, the raw honesty of graffiti art, and the passion of Pop Culture Icons in music, film, fashion, and sports. Inspired by Henri Matisse, Picasso, Andy Warhol, and Georgia O'Keeffe.
