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 | 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 | Haochen Ren
Haochen Ren is an independent London-based artist. Over the most recent two years of his practices, the exhibition as a medium has been seen as his primary research direction. Exploring the possibility of constructing cognitive experiences through the concept of "exhibition" not only supports his practice at this stage but also serves as a fundamental step in exploring "how art and exhibition can provide a decentred platform”.
INTERVIEW | Qinying Cai
Qinying Cai was born in China and specializes in emotionally evocative oil paintings. Her artistic journey, rooted in childhood as a refuge from dyslexia, has evolved into a captivating exploration of classical artistry. As a talented storyteller, Qinying Cai invites viewers to connect and feel the common threads of our shared human experience, as well as reminds us of the fleeting nature of emotions and life experiences.
INTERVIEW | Stefano Scarafia
Stefano Scarafia is an Italian filmmaker and visual artist. In his collages, the images take on the form of geometries, simple subjective mental suggestions, pure imagination, and pieces of fantasies. His collages are assemblages of remnants, attempting to forge an emotional connection with the observer. They challenge their perception of reality, offering a moment of disorientation.
INTERVIEW | Esther Tang
Esther Tang is an illustrator and designer based in New York City. Her approach involves seamlessly blending traditional drawing techniques with modern computer-aided methods to craft her pieces. As an illustrator, she thinks that her value resides in expressing her opinions and presenting issues through her work, inspiring her audience, and igniting discussions.
INTERVIEW | Yun Yao
Yun Yao is a Chinese artist and illustrator, currently based in California. She finds inspiration in the diversity of materials and the endless possibilities they offer for visual storytelling. Yun's work aims to explore a range of themes, from personal experiences to abstract concepts, with the ultimate goal of connecting with her audience on an instinctual level.
INTERVIEW | Yongqi Tang
The objective of Yongqi Tang’s works is to reinterpret the categories into which we are born to rearticulate the discourse around them. Her studio practices involve a variety of materials such as oil, watercolor, acrylic, and charcoal. Using the dining experience as an entry point, Yongqi’s current works examine the ambivalence to be in the liminal state between the alienation from her country of origin and the displacement at the current settlement.
INTERVIEW | Pol Petrino
Pol Petrino is an Italian artist based in Novara. His artistic production, using stones and soils as mediums, is focused on the synergy between human beings and Mother Nature. In his works, Pol conveys everything that impresses him, places, objects, people, and stories. In recent years he has traveled extensively, using the stones gathered during his travels to produce his paintings.