INTERVIEW | Maja Malmcrona

INTERVIEW | Maja Malmcrona

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.

INTERVIEW | Flo Yuting Zhu

INTERVIEW | Flo Yuting Zhu

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.

INTERVIEW | Yuliia Chaika

INTERVIEW | Yuliia Chaika

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.

INTERVIEW | Emi Avora

INTERVIEW | Emi Avora

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.

INTERVIEW | Patrick Walsh

INTERVIEW | Patrick Walsh

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.

INTERVIEW | Yulin Yuan

INTERVIEW | Yulin Yuan

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.

INTERVIEW | Zihan Zhou

INTERVIEW | Zihan Zhou

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.

INTERVIEW | Alice Zakharenko

INTERVIEW | Alice Zakharenko

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.

INTERVIEW | Zengyi Zhao

INTERVIEW | Zengyi Zhao

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.

INTERVIEW | Jewan Goo

INTERVIEW | Jewan Goo

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.

INTERVIEW | Black Void

INTERVIEW | Black Void

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.

INTERVIEW | Blake Huang

INTERVIEW | Blake Huang

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.

INTERVIEW | Naoual Peleau

INTERVIEW | Naoual Peleau

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.

INTERVIEW | Tianyi Zhang

INTERVIEW | Tianyi Zhang

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.

INTERVIEW | Maryam Nazari

INTERVIEW | Maryam Nazari

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.

INTERVIEW | Huey Lee

INTERVIEW | Huey Lee

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.

INTERVIEW | Claudia Newman

INTERVIEW | Claudia Newman

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.

INTERVIEW | Shin-Rung Yang

INTERVIEW | Shin-Rung Yang

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.

INTERVIEW | Momo

INTERVIEW | Momo

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.

INTERVIEW | Kun Zhao

INTERVIEW | Kun Zhao

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.