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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
David Thomas Smith is a visual artist who specializes in Post- Photographic Processes. His work interrogates the evolving relationship between technology, imagery, and the human experience. Engaging with Post-Photographic Processes, his practice explores how the digital realm reshapes our perception of reality, history, and memory.
Maxime Déria, a passionate French artist, explores the intricacies of his life through spontaneous and captivating art. Completely self-taught, he instinctively grasped the rigor of collage in the manner of Jacques Villeglé or Raymond Hains, appropriating the medium to tell fragments of personal history. Painting completes and contributes to the overall dynamism of the images.
Elsa Faudé is a French photographer-author based between Barcelona (Spain) and Toulouse (France). Her production combines photography with video, installation, and literature at the borders of documentary and poetical approaches. In the Kozmic Blues series, the journey of Ronn, a Cherokee-origin blues(wo)man, embodies both the promises and disillusionments of the American Dream.
Australian-based creative Carlotta Hey has had a long and extensive career in the fashion industry. Currently, she is focusing primarily on fashion illustrations, where she views clothing as a deeply personal form of self-expression. In her work, the human body adorned in garments becomes a powerful vehicle for communication.
William Josephs Radford, a Spanish-born fine art photographer, challenges conventional thought processes through his striking compositions and thought-provoking subject matters. His photography delves into controversial themes such as sex, religion, gender, and identity to convey complex emotions and altered perceptions.
Born in the Netherlands and based in Portugal, Gís Marí paints large-scale, abstract, expressionistic oil paintings. Gís Marí believes in old-world values. He works on a painting for many months and up to years. After constant conversation with the painting, he only puts his signature under his best work and destroys the rest.
Goran Tomic is a Collisionist Autodidactic Artist from Sydney, Australia. His collages are a manifestation of the chaotic mayhem of modern life in a big city. The collages were started and conceived while in transit, either in cafes, pubs, libraries or even on public transport. The initial energy is his surroundings, and then the finishing touches are fine-tuned at home.
Haidar Ali Tipu Zinan is a Colombian artist. His work focuses on exploring and producing pieces that revolve around the archetypes present in art history and the concept of time. Each of his creations responds to a unique quest and his research often leads him to large-scale projects where the bodily experience with the piece becomes significant within a spatial, material, and symbolic context.
Xingyu Huang is an interdisciplinary artist based in Chicago, known for her innovative work in sculpture, installation, and video. Her practice explores spatial dynamics and sensory perception, using these elements to delve into themes of human connection, isolation, and environmental impact. Huang creates immersive environments that reflect on the relationships between humans and non-humans.
Cassandra McCoy is an American photographer, currently enrolled in a communications/photojournalism degree at Kent State University. Working primarily with analog photography, she takes the simple yet heartwarming scenes, completely blowing them out of proportion. If one were to describe her art in three words, it would be invasive, vivid, and lomographic.
Mei-Ju Shen, an innovative fashion designer with roots in New York and Taipei, channels a strong sense of social responsibility shaped by her upbringing in an influential Taiwanese family. Shen's creations challenge the dichotomy between beauty and sustainability, offering an eco-conscious aesthetic that redefines fashion and art.
Qianying Zhu is a Chinese jewelry designer. Qianying studied and trained herself as a jewelry designer and focuses on artistic jewelry and self-express. She enjoys observing the characteristics of different things and then expressing them through painting, jewelry, and other forms of artwork. She likes combining different materials together to achieve a sense of harmony and balance.
Tangyu Zhang is a photographer and freelance photojournalist based in Washington, DC, and she is celebrated for her evocative storytelling through the lens. Tangyu’s artistic vision centers on the belief that every individual has a story worth sharing. Her photographs aim to bridge the gap between the seen and the unseen, delving into themes of identity, resilience, and belonging.
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.
Yang Yang's journey began in Japan, followed by a move to China as a teenager. She now divides her time between the UK, US, Japan, and China. This diverse cultural perspective serves as the foundation of her work, enabling her to draw from the architectural traditions of each region. This cross-cultural approach is embedded in her designs and captivates audiences with their global sensibilities.
Supatida Sutiratana is a talented Thai graphic designer based in New York City. Her expertise encompasses branding, packaging, print, and typography. She is a co-founder of Midnight Project, LLC, committed to crafting designs that are both visually striking and deeply meaningful. Through Midnight Project, she channels her passion for design into producing work that resonates with clients and audiences alike.
Michel Bragança is a Portuguese painter and artist with a degree in Fine Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Porto. In their artistic practice, there is a need to define who they are as they exist, which has been a constant research theme and a reason for their ontological questioning and introspective process, which in turn are connected to their artistic practice.
Tanapol Suriyachottakul is a Thai artist born in 2001 in Bangkok. He approaches his art with a methodical, almost analytical mindset, likening his process to solving equations. Central to his work is the concept of Nihilism, which he portrays through calculated compositions and symbolic objects like mannequins and metallic forms. His paintings construct a world of distorted realities.
Haige Wu is a Chinese artist and illustrator with a practice spanning London and China. Her work blends traditional techniques such as lacquer painting and woodworking with contemporary methods, exploring themes of regional culture, feminism, and identity. Currently experimenting with felt for its dual qualities of softness and strength, Haige’s innovative approach has garnered international recognition.
Andrei Ruzov is a Russian artist. He finds his main goal in talking to people who feel bad, who are not heard or do not want to be heard, who are in a state of instability, who feel lonely and anxious, or who are going through difficult therapy. He wants to convey to them the idea that they are not alone, and they are heard and understood, and their experience and pain are shared.
Natalia Titova is a digital artist born in 1992 in Omsk, Russia, and currently based in Belgrade, Serbia. Specializing in concept art and digital collages, Natalia Titova blends diverse techniques to create captivating, minimalist compositions. Her work explores the impact of literature, crafting digital collages that capture the essence of her favourite authors.
Chu Ling-Jung, born in Taiwan in 2000, is an artist focused on feminism and consciousness. Her works often explore the unease in women's body shaping and gender perception under a patriarchal society and present these themes through deliberate bodily transformations. Chu Ling-Jung 's creative forms are diverse, including performance art, video, and found objects.
Maja Malmcrona is a visual artist born in 1993 in Gothenburg, Sweden, and currently based in Zurich, Switzerland. Her work relates primarily to an examination of space and our experience of it, placing particular emphasis on the mediation between our natural and built environment. Her work takes the form of abstract landscapes, conceptual cartography, and imaginary structures.
Originally from Shanghai and now based in London, Flo Yuting Zhu navigates the shifting boundaries between the 'witnessing' and the 'witnessed'. Her works challenge the audience's perception by recontextualising everyday digital forms such as vlogs, livestreams, and horror trail cams. She creates a language that both appropriates and reinterprets the conventions of mass media.
Yuliia Chaika was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, and as an artist, she fully found herself and her style in Spain. In most of her works, the main theme is devoted to women. Through the female image, she expresses her emotions and concerns, offering a personal lens through which she views the world. She draws inspiration from the folk art of Ukraine.
Emi Avora is a Greek-born, UK-trained, and Singapore-based artist. She subject matter from her everyday life in Asia as well as her Greek ancestry with a focus on a combination of interior spaces, still life, and landscape. Often, her paintings present encounters or ‘conversations’ between seemingly disparate objects or symbols.
Patrick Walsh is an American artist. He lives in Portland, Maine, and works out of his studio in the old textile mill in Biddeford, Maine. His paintings seek to explore the subtle yet profound differences within natural environments, reflecting how these variations mirror the individuality of human beings. The work aims to challenge viewers to appreciate the nuances of the natural world.
Yulin Yuan is an interdisciplinary artist and dedicated art educator, born in China and raised in South Africa. Her practice spans photography, video, and assemblage, focusing on themes of identity, mythology, and displacement. Her work bridges the space of "in-between," exploring the ephemeral nature of identity while questioning the very foundation of the self.
Zihan Zhou is an artist who creates visual art and explores a variety of media while also writing, educating, and working in the media. Zhou draws deeply from historical iconography, searching for their connection to contemporary contexts. Shifting from traditional painting to collaged images to installations and performances, Zhou’s art strives to produce a more open resonance.
Alice Zakharenko is a London-based interdisciplinary artist, who works in print media, papermaking, painting and drawing. Exploring the temporal qualities of repetition and difference, Zakharenko’s bodies of work explore memory, movement, rhythm, time and identity. She investigates how individuals measure time through their bodies and in the environment without relying on technologies.
Zengyi Zhao is an artist who primarily uses photography and video as his creative method. His photography revolves around the critique of inauthenticity and alienation brought by capitalism and consumerism. In his work, he visualizes the connections between individual life and grand narratives, discussing the presentation and impact of different sociocultural phenomena such as modernity and spectacle.
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.
Black Void is an art and science collective founded and directed by Yixuan Cai in partnership with Stella Miao and Yuhan Xiao, as well as Hong Yun and more members from various fields, including architecture, digital art, data science, algorithm, and experimental music. Their artistic endeavors center around the hybrid ecology, interwoven by nature and technologies.
Huey Lee is a ceramic artist from South Korea, dedicated to exploring the expressive possibilities of clay. After completing his training as a traditional Korean ceramic artisan, Lee honed his skills working in various pottery and ceramic studios. His artistic practice is deeply rooted in his cultural background, religious influences, and nostalgic memories.
Claudia Newman is a self-taught artist and illustrator from Germany. Her artwork serves as a reflection of her personal growth, encapsulating her profound thoughts and emotions. Her pieces are captivating, evocative, and filled with deep meaning. The beauty emanating from her artworks pays a unique homage to the complexities of human experiences and the diverse forms present in our universe.
Blake Huang is a Taiwanese artist, currently based in Chicago. Her works blend a wide range of genres, including commercials, feature films, short films, and documentaries. It is her mission to bring out the experience of storytelling and achieve something wonderful for the audience to remember. She firmly believes movies are more than entertainment, they connect memories across generations.
Naoual Peleau is a French artist working with photography. Her practice is largely experimental, with a focus on manipulating, transforming, and even destroying the image and its support. As a self-professed clumsy person, she embraces accidents and mistakes as an integral part of her creative process. Her research aims to strike a balance between accidental creation and successful experience.
Tianyi Zhang lives and works in Shanghai and Los Angeles. Her work explores patterns of behavior and communication within our over-saturated media and social environment. Through interactive performances, often featuring her own portrait, Zhang emphasizes simple habitual gestures to examine the connection between private and collective experience, cultural pressures, expectations, and identity.
Maryam Nazari is a Tehran-born multidisciplinary artist, based in London. Her artistic practice spans performance art, sound design, video art, and installation, with a focus on the intersections of memory, identity, and cultural narrative. Maryam’s work is deeply informed by her Iranian heritage and explores the impact socio-political tensions on personal experience and artistic expression.
Bhagyashri Khandare is a self-taught artist who found her artistic voice after completing her architecture studies. She specializes in stippling, a labor-intensive technique that involves creating images with millions of tiny dots. Her art is both minimalistic and complex, and her unique style has garnered attention for its meditative quality and intricate detail.
Orkan Tan is German artist based in Stuttgart. Orkan Tan's works are deeply rooted in personal experience, offering viewers an unfiltered glimpse into his soul. His art challenges societal norms, embracing the self, which has shaped him into the unique individual he is today. In addition to painting, Orkan works with various media, including photography, scanning techniques, poetry.
Shin-Rung Yang is an artist and spatial designer based in Los Angeles and Taipei. Her multidisciplinary approach, drawing on her academic background in art and architecture, explores diverse ways of experiencing space. Her projects delve into themes of urban environments, memory, and spatial perception, examining both the psychological and physical dimensions of spaces.
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.
Momo was born in Japan to a Japanese mother and a Ghanaian father. She expresses her identity as a mixed-race person with different backgrounds and her ideology of society behind her work. She explores her unique vision through artistic digital and analog fashion pieces, paintings, and performance shows. Since 2017 she has been living New York City, working as a model.
Kun Zhao is a visual artist and educator whose practice spans painting, drawing, printmaking, and material expression. With a solid academic background and extensive teaching experience, Kun bridges traditional techniques with contemporary themes. Her latest series, Rose Window, explores the intersection of environmental concern and artistic expression, merging low materials with high art.
Robin Dru Germany is a Professor in Photography at Texas Tech University in Lubbock Texas. Her research investigates the tenuous border between the human and the natural worlds, looking simultaneously at the capitalist-driven human world and the undisclosed activity of nature with emphasis on the undefined area between the two, pointing to the asynchrony between these two environments.
Raine Li is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the intersection of tradition and modernity, rooted in the vibrant heritage of China's Yi ethnic culture. With a diverse background spanning experimental animation, digital art, and traditional calligraphy, Raine's work seamlessly integrates traditional elements with contemporary expression.
The Republic of Kazakhstan proudly presents its second pavilion with the "Jerūiyq: Journey Beyond the Horizon" exhibition at the Biennale Arte 2024. This exhibition, located at the historic building of the Museo Storico Navale, offers a modern interpretation of the ancient legend of Jerūiyq, inspired by Kazakh legends and the visionary journey of XV-century philosopher Asan Kaigy.
Media Majlis Museum (mm:museum) at Northwestern University in Qatar has inaugurated its eighth mixed-media exhibition, The limits of my language are the limits of my world, exploring the Arabic language, its imprints from the past, its multifaceted present and precarious future. Curated by cultural producer and Northwestern Qatar alumna Amal Zeyad Ali, it will run until December 5, 2024.
Qian Chen is a visual artist based in London and Xi'an. Her latest project, Dreamania, explores new dimensions of childhood memories, nostalgic culture, fancy dreams of irrationality. By observing and recording life trajectories, and reprocessing frozen memories, Qian create a tangible concept of spatial iteration, presenting the product of the interaction between daily life and dreams.
Born in the Netherlands and based in Portugal, Gís Marí paints large-scale, abstract, expressionistic oil paintings. Gís Marí believes in old-world values. He works on a painting for many months and up to years. After constant conversation with the painting, he only puts his signature under his best work and destroys the rest.
Yunjie Huang's artistic journey is a captivating exploration of the intersection between the mystical past and the complex present. Drawing from the depths of archaeology, myth, fairy tales, and fantasy, her work in ceramics and illustration not only showcases her technical prowess but also her profound ability to weave intricate narratives that delve into the essence of femininity and power.
Rafael Alejandro López is a Swiss-Venezuelan filmmaker and graphic designer based in Los Angeles. Raised between countries in seemingly perfect opposition, Lopez's personal work explores flawed political systems and the duality of the human condition. Through the narrative micro-lens of human experiences and dance, Lopez's aesthetic oscillates between absurdism, fiction, and realism.
Daniella Uchendu-Oji is a designer and animator whose journey is a testament to the fusion of traditional art and digital innovation. Balancing her roles as a designer, animator, and startup developer, Daniella integrates her expertise in digital art with her entrepreneurial spirit. Her projects reflect her dedication to innovation, sustainability, and the intersection of technology and creativity.
Todd Williamson is a Los Angeles-based contemporary artist. His art is like a deep dive into a world of subtle abstractions, where every piece has a kind of ethereal calm and a determined presence. He brings his pieces to life through a process-oriented technique of layering, sanding, grinding, and detailed brushwork—each step pulling out an inner connection into his world.
Suly Bornstein-Wolff’s latest project, Vessels, is part of the Personal Structures exhibition at Palazzo Mora in Venice, held on the occasion of the 2024 Venice Biennale. In the installation, the white glass objects represent a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and with their smooth reflective surfaces that symbolize beauty, symmetry, and perfection.
Xinyu Wo is a Chinese visual artist now living in New York. Her art aims to explore the connection between human nature and social reality, triggering viewers to reflect on their inner worlds through visual presentation. By dramatizing images to increase tension and using surrealist techniques to arrange elements, she aims to attract viewers to explore the meanings behind her works.
Wanrong Zhu is a multimedia visual artist from China and based in London. Her work focuses on the relationship between AI and society. Her latest series, the Dream Series, three distinct works, each delving into different facets of the human psyche—death, inner shadows, and anxiety—drawn from the artist's meticulous collection of 100 recurring dream archives.
Snow (Xueyi Huang), originally from Zhuhai, China, is a digital media artist, celebrated for her integrative approach that bridges Eastern philosophy with Western digital practices. Her art delves into the narrative of memory, identity, and emotion through digital expression. She employs technologies like coding, generative art, machine learning, and augmented reality to challenge traditional perceptions and engage audiences actively.
Chun Yao Chang is a New York-based Visual Effects Artist. Specializing as a VFX Compositor, Matte Painter, and Environment Artist, Chang creates visual effects for films, TV episodes, and commercials. Chang breathes life into the static through a delicate dance of light, color, and motion, inviting viewers to journey beyond the mundane and into the extraordinary.
AMIANGELIKA is an award-nominated new media and experience artist based in London. Her practice revolves around exploring the interconnection between image and sound as well as machine-human interaction, resulting in performance-based and installation-based works. She creates fully generative, real-time rendered pieces that react to live inputs through audio or motion tracking sensors.
Jessica Guo is a multidisciplinary designer and artist from Hainan Island, now based in Brooklyn, New York. She has lived in Guangzhou and Seattle, which has influenced her diverse background. Currently, she is the founder of Mud Silk Studios, a women-led design studio that blends ancient Chinese craftsmanship with modern elegance to create sustainable, eco-friendly lifestyle products.
Fernando Gimeno Pol is an artist whose practice spans photography, sound, and video. In recent years, his artworks have revolved around nature, involving a series of incursions into forests and utilizing various devices to document and rethink the idea of nature as a mirror of the human condition.
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.
YoonJi Yang is a multidisciplinary designer based in New York City. She is a designer with experience across digital platforms, product design, and print. YoonJi's life journey has taken her through an incredible adventure, living in Iran, Korea, Belgium, Italy, and the United States, and each place has profoundly shaped her perspective on the important role of communication design in connecting people worldwide.
Emirati artist, Author, and Entrepreneur Maisoon Al Saleh works actively as an artist in Dubai and internationally. She aims to evoke a sense of wonder and reflection, encouraging viewers to contemplate the dynamic coexistence of tradition and modernity. Each piece is a visual ode to the UAE's unique narrative, where the past and present converge in a mesmerizing dance of light, color, and cultural symbolism.
Yan Yan is a highly accomplished interdisciplinary designer, focusing her work on critiquing and interpreting the social landscape through the creation of artifacts and narratives infused with critical thinking. For Yan, design is a tool for exploring the truth about the world and the internal universe. Yan's works encourage viewers to reflect on their personal experiences through a systematic and hypothetical lens.
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.
Kyla Gu is a London-based graphic, brand, and transmedia designer who strives to push the boundaries of visual communication. Her work is a fusion of traditional design principles and innovative techniques, where creative coding, motion, and 3D converge to form unique visual languages. This multidisciplinary approach allows her to explore and redefine the limits of graphic design.
Ke Ren is an illustrator and animation artist currently based in London. Her artistic practice spans various mediums, including 2D digital, traditional frame-by-frame hand-drawing, and augmented reality. Ke's artistic practice focuses on the intersection of 2D digital and traditional hand-drawn techniques, drawing inspiration from different cultural environments and identities and weaving together those indescribable moments of memory and visuals.
Born into a family of master ceramicists, Oliviero Leonardi (1921 - 2019) was an Italian painter and sculptor based in Rome and Paris. He was largely recognized in the 1970/80s as one of the leader in painting with experimental materials on steel plates. His artistic research focused, among others, on the subject of cosmogony. He was partially influenced by futurism, surrealism, cubism and art informel.
Jérémy Bergeaud, lives and works in Bordeaux, France. As a professional architect, he primarily defines himself as an experimenter. His work exists at the intersection of techniques and materials, exploring the uniqueness and evolution of materials. This research journey often leads him to explore simple techniques that, over time, transform into autonomous works.