INTERVIEW | Bîstyek

INTERVIEW | Bîstyek

Bîstyek is a multidisciplinary artist specializing in painting, sculpture, and drawing. Renowned for his bold use of color and expressive lines, he blends elements of graffiti, street art, and abstraction while also creating figurative paintings on various surfaces and 3D wood sculptures. His work primarily reflects on his personal journey, from his marginalized upbringing in Syria to Canada.

INTERVIEW | Ruslana Nosak

INTERVIEW | Ruslana Nosak

Ruslana Nosak's work reflects a lifelong journey through different places, each of which has shaped and expanded her artistic vision. Over the years, she's explored a range of mediums, embracing each for its unique, expressive qualities. Her work depicts the psychological and cultural complexities faced by individuals adapting to new countries and identities.

INTERVIEW | Mingu Kang

INTERVIEW | Mingu Kang

Kang Mingu is a filmmaker, media artist, and writer based in South Korea. His works often depict vulnerable figures within society, exploring themes such as redevelopment, technological transformation, and mythology while emphasizing a warm perspective and hope for the marginalized. Through these narratives, he reflects his desire for comfort and warmth in both his own life and the society.

INTERVIEW | Wenqing Gu

INTERVIEW | Wenqing Gu

Wenqing Gu is a Baltimore-based digital illustrator originally from Huai’an, China. Her art serves as a bridge between cultures, drawing from her experiences in both China and the United States to explore universal emotions. Her illustrations are imbued with a sense of simplicity and childlike wonder, reflecting her belief in the power of art to bring joy and healing.

INTERVIEW | Aylal Heydarova

INTERVIEW | Aylal Heydarova

Aylal Heydarova is an emerging Azerbaijani painter whose works span a variety of artistic styles and creative techniques, including pointillism, modernism, and abstract. Launched in April 2024, the #SAVINGBUTTERFLIES project celebrates transformation and resilience, reflecting the journeys of both butterflies and migrants.

INTERVIEW | Neryhs Wo

INTERVIEW | Neryhs Wo

Neryhs Wo is an emerging independent artist from Hong Kong. Her practice explores the contradiction of hoping to be found and understood but doubting the existence of total understanding between minds. She expresses this through various media such as poetry, paintings, illustrations, public installations, and performances. Neryhs sees her art practice to be a form of unconditional love she gives to life.

INTERVIEW | Pavel Bulva

INTERVIEW | Pavel Bulva

Pavel Bulva, born in 1991 and currently based in Minsk, is an artist whose work serves as a profound exploration of religious and philosophical themes, offering reflection on the vices and societal challenges prevalent in an era of mass consumption and archetypal narratives. His art delves into the depths of existential loneliness and immortality, provoking thought and contemplation on the human condition.

INTERVIEW | Evelyne Chevallier

INTERVIEW | Evelyne Chevallier

Evelyne Chevallier's photo collages started with graffiti. As the amount of graffiti in the collages was reduced, more and more photos of exceptional Argentinian and Chilean landscapes appeared, and most of the time, they were also manipulated. A resume of this work could be described as a permanent juxtaposition of two extremes: full and empty, talkative and silent, urban and nature.

INTERVIEW | Ramón González Palazón

INTERVIEW | Ramón González Palazón

Ramón González Palazón is a multidisciplinary artist working in painting, drawing, video creation, installation, and filmmaking. His practice seeks to transform real spaces, merging the human and the material, using interactive devices to generate new interpretations of physical environments. In his latest compositions, he reflects on the natural process of atmospheric elements.

INTERVIEW | Alexandra Taoukidou

INTERVIEW | Alexandra Taoukidou

Alexandra Taoukidou is a Greek artist based in Zurich, Switzerland. Space and its mutations are the main themes of her visual practice, as in the BOXES SERIES. Here the artist translates the spaces into the third dimension through scale models enclosed in wooden boxes. The viewer takes the role of an explorer, as he is invited to observe their interior through various distorting (and non) lenses.

INTERVIEW | Diego Fabro

INTERVIEW | Diego Fabro

Diego Fabro is a Brazilian fine art photographer based in Dublin, Ireland. His photographic practice explores the notions of "home" and the "passage of time". Fabro is captivated by the potential of light and color to transform ordinary scenes into moments of heightened theatricality, infusing his images with a sense of tension drawn from daily life.

INTERVIEW | Yuwen Huang

INTERVIEW | Yuwen Huang

Yuwen Huang is a Chinese media artist based in San Francisco, USA. Yuwen works across video, internet, installation, GAN-generated images and videos, blockchain, and creative writing. Through the lens of technology, her art investigates the human relationship with society, the environment, and culture, exploring how these connections have been shaped by technology over time.

INTERVIEW | Yiou (Max) Yang

INTERVIEW | Yiou (Max) Yang

Max Yang is a photographer based in Los Angeles and Beijing. Through her graduate studies, Max applies a cross-disciplinary approach to researching East Asian performance genres, such as film, dance, and visual arts. Her work examines how East Asian artists challenge traditional gender roles and advocate for social equity.

INTERVIEW | Leon Phillips

INTERVIEW | Leon Phillips

Leon Phillips is a contemporary painter currently based in Vancouver, Canada. He employs the materiality of color to evoke a visceral response in viewers, infusing color with structural significance rather than mere decoration. Phillips’ gestural work explores perception and embodiment through the materiality of color, aiming to immerse viewers in a corporeal experience.

INTERVIEW | Karolina Zgłobicka

INTERVIEW | Karolina Zgłobicka

Karolina Zgłobicka, a Polish artist based in Valencia, Spain, explores themes of relocation, memory, and the everyday objects that anchor us to our personal histories. Karolina Zgłobicka's art reflects on the intricate relationship between cherished objects and the memories they evoke, prompting the viewer to reconsider their connection with the material world and the passage of time.

INTERVIEW | Bonan Li

INTERVIEW | Bonan Li

Bonan Li is an artist and designer whose work transcends conventional fashion, exploring the profound connections between nature, human consciousness, and the fleeting beauty of existence. Viewing clothing as a contemplative and immersive experience, she creates wearable art that bridges the natural world and the human body, delving into themes of transience, emptiness, and unseen patterns of life.

INTERVIEW | Charles Chao Wang

INTERVIEW | Charles Chao Wang

Charles Chao Wang is a London-based photographer and artist. His work draws from his own experiences and memories and is influenced by a variety of fields, including sociology, philosophy, and psychology. He offers a powerful social commentary, as well as an opportunity for spiritual healing, enabling both the viewer and the artist to reflect on and respond to societal challenges.

INTERVIEW | Shouhui Lu

INTERVIEW | Shouhui Lu

Shouhui Lu is a Chinese self-taught artist. He believes that the best teacher is nature. He has been committed to the exploration and innovation of paper painting language, creating works with a contemporary spirit on traditional rice paper. He tries to express the problems that tiny individuals are experiencing and encountering in the current society through his works.

INTERVIEW | Theo Lopez

INTERVIEW | Theo Lopez

Theo Lopez draws inspiration from movements like Musicalism, Russian Constructivism, and the Blaue Reiter, cultivating a poetic relationship with material, line, and color. His creative process harmonizes reflection and spontaneity, awakening hidden melodies within his work. He employs full-body gestures to infuse energy into his non-figurative art, echoing the dynamism of historical avant-gardes.

INTERVIEW | Eagan Hsu

INTERVIEW | Eagan Hsu

Eagan Hsu is an emerging photographic artist based in Taipei. His work explores the complex web of human emotions, mental health, identity, and the often-overlooked moments of daily life. Eagan's photography spans from candid street portraits to conceptual series, delving into themes like imperfection, memory, and anonymity.