Zijun Zhao (Mosa) graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Her work is based on the recognition and pride of her Asian identity and also the conflict between real life and the illusional world. Every drawing is a process of quarreling with herself that she is creating a world without logic but with order, where she has an opportunity to feel safe.
INTERVIEW | Audrey Messas
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.
INTERVIEW | Aiman
Aiman (1984) is an interdisciplinary artist, living and working in Singapore. His current practice explores philosophical questions, theories, and ideas observed within the context of contemporary discourse. Aiman views his practice as an attempt to inspire others to look inward—a journey of returning to one’s true self—and to reconnect to the ways in which individuals intrinsically relate to one another.
INTERVIEW | Xuemeng Zhang
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.
INTERVIEW | David Moješčík
David Moješčík, aka MojDa, belongs to the middle generation of Czech sculptors. In his work, he deals with figurative sculpture. He uses all the advantages of sculpture in terms of material, allowing him to vary his sculptures in many positions, poses, and postures. He uses his own approach and handwriting in these subjects, but he often likes to work with hidden symbols or a greater or lesser degree of irony and exaggeration.
INTERVIEW | Asmae Mouayn
Asmae Mouayn, alias ‘Asmyn’, is a Moroccan fractal artist based in Marrakesh. Her artwork attempts to demonstrate that science and art go hand in hand and that equations can be set up to an artistic visualization. By using mathematical formulas, she creates unique fractal art pieces. She wants to arouse the public’s curiosity and push people to imagine the narratives and stories behind every fractal.
INTERVIEW | Mihail Vuchkov
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.
INTERVIEW | YaXi Zhou
YaXi Zhou is a fashion designer. She mostly focuses on the emotional connection with human beings. She has always been committed to sustainable design, and she is currently working on using natural plants for fabric dyeing. Her latest project, Freedom from Shadow, was inspired by people's anxiety regarding their appearance and enables viewers to explore the stories and experiences behind the physical changes.
INTERVIEW | Liao Qian
Liao Qian 廖倩 (they/them) is a glass artist based in Brooklyn, NY. As a chronic trauma survivor, Chinese non-binary, bilingual & multicultural creative, Joss is devoted to making space and taking space in the form of art. As a survivor of domestic violence, socio-political trauma, and sexual assault, Joss aims to inspire shared tenderness and radical vulnerability.
INTERVIEW | Yalan Wen
Yalan Wen is an artist based in New York City who works on computational images, new media installations, and motion graphics. Born and raised in Taiwan, she developed her curiosity about art and science. Her work explores the subtle events that happen beyond the surface, finding the balance between simplicity and nuanced philosophical interpretations.
INTERVIEW | Broly Su
Born and raised in Changsha, China, Broly Su is an Atlanta-based illustrator and graphic designer. Broly creates most of his work digitally, taking inspiration from hip-hop music, graffiti, sneakers, toys, and street culture. Heavily influenced by artists like Kenny Scharf, Steven Harrington, and Gang Box, Broly creates in a consistent style working with ink, acrylic, posca markers, and ballpoint pens to achieve his bold-lined and graffiti drawing style.
INTERVIEW | Koo J
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.
INTERVIEW | Pavlina Vagioni
Pavlina Vagioni’s art is all about alchemy, re-enchanting the contemporary world through the timelessness of the myths and legends of her Hellenic heritage. She renders the symbols and archetypes behind them to reveal their relevance and aliveness and bridge the chasm between Cartesian rationalism and the spirituality of human beings, nature, and the cosmos.
INTERVIEW | Sümer Sayın
Sümer Sayın is an interdisciplinary artist, working primarily with sculpture and installation. She makes interventions into found objects, using geometric elements, reflections, repetitions, and loops, altering their composition and function. By re-constructing some of the elements they are composed of, she assigns them new contexts and layers of meanings.
INTERVIEW | Hanwei Su
Hanwei Su is a New York-based fashion designer who attended Parsons and is currently preparing to debut her FW23 collection for her own label during New York Fashion Week in February 2023. The “Wild Growth” collection is a zero-waste collection that is constructed out of leftover pieces of fabric. It is also the designer’s exploration into the emergence of “inorganic creatures” and the spontaneous expansion and inheritance of life.
INTERVIEW | Shuqi You
Shuqi You is a New York-based fashion designer. You's design and art approach is based on a lengthy period of individual experimentation with materials and three-dimensional objects, with an emphasis on media characteristics, technique development, and physical existence. In her current participatory project, Wiegenlied D498, she examined the contradictions between personal memories and immediate circumstances.
INTERVIEW | Rachel Jag
Rachel Jag is a self-taught artist. Exploring the approach to the unknown, trying to get closer to the creative process of turning one flash of inspiration in a single moment into something with a life of its own, is the most fascinating to the artist. Intuition leads the way. The communication between the artist, the source of her inspiration, and what is being created on paper opens up new, unseen doors and unexplored fields.
INTERVIEW | Hao Wen (Claudia) Chung
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.
INTERVIEW | Ernestine Louise
Ernestine Louise is a writer and painter, currently based in Oslo, Norway. She works with paper, acrylic, and mixed media. Her work is an exploration of the self, space, place, feelings, emotions, and color in a non-concrete way. Placed-based art is essential to her practice, using a method of ̈en plein air ̈, not to paint the landscape, but to use the elements of nature as material and co-creator.
INTERVIEW | Gulbin Ozdamar Akarcay
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.