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.
Angel Jiaqi Qin is a post-human image weaver. Having lived and studied in Rochester, New York, Beijing, and London, Angel's practice seeks out an exploration of disruptions in the otherwise straight, smooth, and flat narratives. She weaves patterns of imagery from a non-human-centric perspective, questioning the ontological nature of humanity and its relationship with ecology.
Misha Waks refers to themes related to ecology, women's rights, and minorities. He is inspired by current events, news, and images from the internet, press, and television. He explores topics related to the concepts of post-nature and the Anthropocene. He uses various means of expression; among the most important are painting, sculpture, installations, performance, and video.
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.
Miguel Costa [maarqa] is an artist/architect based in Porto, Portugal. His practice has been developed through interconnected strategies between art, landscape, and architecture. He works individually or in collaboration under the name' maarqa — micro atelier de arquitectura e arte' and divides his professional activity between public space projects and installations, artistic research, and teaching.
Andreea is an award-winning architectural & landscape architectural designer and researcher. "After Plastics: The Gardens of the Glacial Foreland" is a transitional landscape – from glacial to post-glacial. The project questions the potential emergence of microplastic particles in the most pristine places on Earth over the next two centuries and the imminent implications on landscape systems and their formation.
Rebecca Weisman is a conceptually driven maker and thinker who makes deconstructed films of sculptures that are then re-embedded into the sculptures creating dreamy installations with layers upon layers of visual narrative and meaning. Her project Skin Ego centers on an immense, eight by twenty foot sculptural reconstruction of a section of a Finback whale, modeled after a photograph found on the internet of a real-life stranded whale.
Dhanny 'Danot' Sanjaya is a visual artist from Indonesia. His long-term art project, Ichthyhumanology Institute, is a fictional institution that presents studies on the natural relationship between humans, fish and the sea. He offers research methods as a medium to re-examine how we position ourselves within the environment with other organisms.
Reiner Heidorn is an autodidact painter, he works on oversized and mostly monochrome paintings, where he processes the relationship between man and nature. Over the years he has developed his own unique painting technique and gave it a name - "Dissolutio", which means disappearance. His paintings consist of tiny microscopic elements, flowing various shades of green and blue arrange themselves in gentle transitions on the canvas.
Ronit Keret’s recent work deals with the ecological crisis, the melting glaciers that have been changing due to the nature of human activity. The Installations that Keret creates are formed as a reaction to the given display space and the nature of the material she uses itself. Keret describes the transitions between good and evil in looking at human and nature relations and the gap between childhood dreams and catastrophic reality.
A duo, collective artists that work into thematic series of “microfictions” fragments that highlight aspects of human nature, making them symbolically visible. Their work is rooted in the margins of reality where fiction is the way, to tell the truth about the ecological perspective to understand the interdependence of Man/Nature.
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