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.
Hee Jung Han is a visual artist living and working in South Korea. Her newest series, “Landscape of Pli,” is a process of exploring the ‘multiplicity’ inherent in humans living in the hyper-connected era where truth and lies, real and fake, are mixed. This this ever-changing landscape reminds her that the truth she knows or understands can be meaningless.
Kwabena Ofori-Darkwa is a self-taught Ghanaian photographer whose work is based on concepts focusing on nature and its relation and significance to humanity as part of a personal quest to seek a deeper understanding of various aspects of life as has been found as well as to build on the continuous rise of African contemporary photography to add different nuances and perspectives in subsequent conversations.
Patrícia Abreu is a Brazilian visual artist. Themes about Time, Memory, and the Natural World are a constant presence in her work. She has always been interested in the mysteries of Nature's life, which is covered beyond the visible surfaces that envelopes what we see and blur what we imagine. Her series of photographs titled Echoing Humanity was shot in Cisco, a ghost town in Utah, USA, in January 2019.
Evgeniya Strygina is a London-based contemporary artist specializing in landscape and architecture photography. She captures urban and natural environments to highlight their relation to and their autonomy from human beings. To make the viewer see aspects of the landscape that routinely go unnoticed, she offers a different perspective and deliberately strips down the style of her photographs.
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.
Emmanuelle Becker is a visual artist and photographer based in Paris. Emmanuelle Becker's photographic work explores the selective nature of memory and the impact of emotions on how the brain prioritizes and retains information. Becker has an intimist look at her subjects to create her singular dreamlike imagery. Her fascination with dreams and the unconscious is at the heart of her creative process.
Multidisciplinary visual artist Lela Amparo uses machine learning (GAN) to create visual imagery that showcases an otherworldly atmosphere. She also is an ambient music producer who merges her music and art to make a multi-sensory experience for the end viewer. Amparo specialises and takes great pleasure in transporting the viewer and listener to a different dimension.
Aleš Jungmann is a photographer from Czech Republic. After a long artistic abstinence, which he interrupted only sporadically, he is now intensively returning to landscape photography. With new energy and passion, influenced by his work as an architectural photographer and using the same medium format digital camera technique, he understand landscape photography as an exploration.
Yanqing Pei works with the idea that everything exists as one simultaneously while being connected to something else independently in her paintings. Her practice is an exploration of the intimate symbiotic relationship between human beings and their surroundings with a focus on nature, as well as imaginations of poetic spaces derived from narrative contexts composed of Chinese ideographic characters.
Marija Toskovic's work is based on an abstract “self-landscape,” which aims to redefine the perception of an external projection of the inner identity. She is interested in exploring the idea of (im)permanence of the “other side” on the horizon and in the landscape, which defines the immutability of intimate geography in her work.
Huang Hua is a Chinese photographer and media expert, currently based in Europe. Due to his life experience, Hua Huang is interested in Eastern mysticism culture and is sensitive to the so-called "truth" of society. In the past two years, because of the epidemic, Huang Hua has begun to focus more on the existence of individuals in the family and the isolation of individuals from society.
Shuai Xu’s current works focus on the invisible world, and much of his inspiration comes from his dreams. He is interested in humanity's relationship to the cosmos, particularly as it plays out here on Earth, in the relationship between individuals and nature. He hopes to explore his interior world more deeply while expanding outward, to engage society and beyond.
Jiabao Sun is a visual artist and photographer originally from China, and currently based in the USA. Jiabao’s work continually explores the variability and ambiguity of emotions and personal feelings. Her artistic expression is not limited in form, using photography, alternative photographic processes, and poetry to visualize the thoughts and dialogues inside her. Her latest project is titled Noēsis.
Michael Vincent Manalo is a visual artist who recently focused on acrylic paintings, photo manipulation, and installations. In his work, the subjects are represented through a mix of imagined and realistic images, playing with the expectations of the viewer and raising questions about the role that human emotions play in memory.
Dawn M Gaietto is a lens-based practitioner working and living in London. Her research is centred on examining small components of nonhuman agency, allowing for momentary lapses in preconceived notions, and exploring the impacts of nonhumans acting upon and influencing humans. Her latest project, Unfixed Consciousness/Positive Unconciousness, analyzes the impact of human activities on ecosystems throughout Alachua County.
Rick Bogacz is a landscapes and street photographer based in Toronto, Canada. Influenced by painters such as Edward Hopper and Canadian Christopher Pratt, Rick’s images will show lone figures walking through the frame or standing alone contemplating their surroundings. Other photographs will emphasize the natural elements themselves but in a solitary way.
Dave Hanson is an artist with a lifelong passion for the medium of photography. He has been intrigued and inspired by everything, from the uniqueness of the human face and body to the historic footprints left by man on the land, or the beauty of the landscape throughout the United States and the world. Dave’s photographs represent the outcome of his vision as translated through the passion of his soul.
Vian Borchert is an expressionist artist. V. Borchert considers all her artwork to be visual poems. For the artist nature is very essential and plays an important role in her life. Thus, V. Borchert is a nature lover - mother nature is her sanctuary and her ultimate solace. Borchert is an avid nature observer. Through contemplating upon nature, the artist reaches her inner peace and attains moments of zen.
