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.
Tong Tong is a cutting-edge fashion designer and creative based in New York City. Tong's designs draw inspiration from a rich tapestry of influences, including personal memories, a profound passion for fashion history, and an adventurous exploration of materials. His collection Home Alone draws inspiration from a cherished childhood memory, the clandestine explorations into his parents' wardrobe.
Qibai Ting is an artist currently based in Beijing and London. Her practice mainly focuses on narrative objects and sculptural installations. Qibai is interested in stargazing activities, and she considers her works as “constellations”. Living very close to forests and mountains, she identifies with the philosophy of nature and practices within landscape.
Sára Kasanová Bown is a visual artist specializing in photography, video, and installation media. Her work explores themes, including the non-linear perception of time, vulnerability, and human connection, reflecting a deep engagement with the human experience. Her latest series was created in the spring of 2023 and 2024 after moving from the city of Prague to the suburbs.
Sharon Rose is a multidisciplinary expressionist artist who delves into the essence of 'humanness' and community amidst an increasingly automated and dehumanized state of the world. Through mixed media creations, she fosters collective engagement to challenge societal norms, prompting revolutionary thoughts. She combines performance, theatricality, fashion, installation, sound and poetry.
Jietong Xu's artwork delves into the emotional connections between individuals through the medium of glass. Inspired by the intricate dynamics within her own family, she uses glass weaving techniques to bring thoughts and emotions to life. By wielding flames as her brush, she transforms glass into a medium that captures the delicate yet resilient nature of human relationships.
Beverley Jane Stewart is a visual artist currently based in the UK. As a visual writer, she looks in intricate detail at how Jewish heritage operates in contemporary multicultural society fusing facts with emotions. She tells stories from past to present, displaying history in its various periods. Her work is now fast gaining international standing, with exhibitions in the United Kingdom, Israel, and Italy.
Seoyoung Kim is an interdisciplinary artist and curator based in Brooklyn. Her practice is a continuing examination of surroundings and site relativity that comes from the placement of things. Her work, when placed in a chosen site, documents a triangular relationship between site, thing, and viewer. She is also the founding director of Site, a curation service dedicated to building communities.
Jiawei Fu is an Interior Designer and Painter, born in Guangzhou, China, and now living in Los Angeles, USA. Jiawei's practice depicts mundanity and emptiness through a surrealized reality to wake up subconsciousness and create new conversations between people. In her latest series, Deceitful Lovers, she uses a delicate palette to expose the sugar-coated modern ignorance and relentlessness in all beings.
Dana Manor Cohen is an Israeli artist, living in Kibbutz Tziv’on. In recent years, she has been painting on old book covers that she collects. These rigid rectangular surfaces accumulate the evidence of many years, and on them, she draws and paints the landscape in which she lives. In these pastoral views, she attempts to express her love and closeness to nature.
Shou-An Chiang currently lives and works in London. She works across photography, video, performance, and installation, in which she explores the ambiguity of relationships and identities, and portrays alienation in a pluralistic society from her own experience. Her recent project, QUEERASIAN, portrays queer Asian people in Western society, and aims to show the faces and stories of these communities from an insider's perspective.
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.
Andrea Anderson Gluckman is an international award-winning photographer and writer who uses her platforms of academics, activism, and art to witness and leverage the stories of communities devastated by mass violence. She is currently based out of Rochester, New York, where she teaches and works collaboratively with artistic communities on issues of social justice, indigenous truth-telling, and anti-racism work.
Marco Lando's work is influenced by his New York theatre background. Combining existential plot lines, dramatic lighting, and surrealist stage design, the otherworldly mise-en-scenes he creates operate on a visceral, symbolic level. His latest series, the post-apocalyptic realm of Alchemy, evokes a timeless spiritual abyss where atonement and purification seem forever out of reach.
Jiaqi Pan is a Chinese photographer, currently living and working in New York. Her series Drive-thru focuses on the working class, specifically women in the service sector. These photographs celebrate female African-Americans as individuals, working in the low-wage, fast food industry. This body of work reveals spaces and environments we encounter but sometimes overlook in our everyday lives.
Gülsah Ayla Bayrak (1997) is a multidisciplinary artist from Belgium. Ayla has roots in Turkey and Georgia, which influenced her work drastically. The artist creates connections between east and west and tries to overcome the imaginary border between the two continents. The artist focuses on Individual experience, cultural diaspora, and society's role in her life.
Rosinda Casais combines architecture with sculpture. At the moment, she collaborates with Fahr 021.3 and studies sculpture at Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto. Throughout her career, she collaborated with different teams of architects, Atelier Peter Zumthor, Vinagre & Côrte-Real, Immopo and as a freelancer.
