ChingKe Lin is a bamboo artist rooted in material philosophy, expanding the contemporary possibilities of bamboo. Rather than reproducing traditional craft, he approaches bamboo as an explorer, studying its tension and resilience to seek a deeper bond between nature and human experience. His work grows from the essence of the material, turning bamboo weaving into a fluid spatial language.
Zhi-Jiang Shan is an interior designer known for his cross-cultural design sensibility and poetic spatial expression. He often draws inspiration from classical Chinese landscapes, local craftsmanship, and symbolic spatial rituals, transforming them into immersive environments that resonate with modern life. His projects are not only functional but emotionally engaging.
Doug Winter is a semi-sighted North American conceptual photographic artist and filmmaker whose artworks focus on the preoccupation of light and non-figurative forms. Doug's non-representational photographs of conventional objects and their environments are derived from the human body's resilience to adapt and accommodate a physical disability and emotional trauma.
Ruonan Shen is a visual artist and photographer based in London. Her work engages with gender expression and transformation, focusing on China’s emerging drag scene as a lens through which to question the boundaries of beauty, strength, and self-presentation. Shen creates highly staged environments that balance intimacy and control, presence and absence.
Yixuan Nie is a rising multidisciplinary artist and fashion designer based in New York, whose work has been celebrated for its bold narrative power and innovative vision. Originally from Beijing, she draws profound inspiration from the layered textures of hutong life, infusing them with global relevance and artistic depth. She also works across styling, printmaking, and illustration.
Mariia Pavlyk is a Ukrainian designer working across fashion through sculptural textiles and environment-driven narrative. Raised in Kyiv, she shaped her aesthetic through Ukrainian culture, nature, and regional crafts, forming pieces that feel both intimate and elemental. Her practice navigates memory, culture, and resilience, weaving ancestral crafts into sculptural garments.
Ece Batur is a London-based contemporary artist whose practice critically examines the entanglements of gendered violence, censorship, and cultural memory as they are inscribed upon the body and the domestic sphere. Working across performance, installation, sound, and text, her practice mobilises materials imbued with domestic and intergenerational feminist symbolism.
Yi Wang is a licensed architect based in New York and the founder of Studio Yione, recognised for its innovative engagement with space, materiality, and historical context. Yi explores how design can bridge collective memories and visions, integrating art, technology, and sustainability to shape public perception and urban experience. Her latest jewelry series is titled Body-as-Site.
Shu Wang is an internationally renowned interdisciplinary artist specializing in jewelry design and wearable sculpture. Her practice centers on the body as a site where emotion, structure, and social tension converge. Through interaction, movement, and physical proximity, she investigates how objects function as living media, activating sensory experience, mediating social expectations, and generating shared perception between wearer and viewer.
Born in Lisboa and shaped by a global curiosity, Marta Ornelas Monteiro is an architect turned multidisciplinary artist whose creative journey is grounded in a profound dialogue with nature. Each piece becomes a living testimony to nature's resilience, memory, and transformation. Her latest work, Layers of Life, Layers of Body, Layers of Nature’s Reality, explores the unseen strata of existence.
Randong Yu's work investigates the tension between fragility and assurance, and how belief, reliance, and ontological security surface through material presence. As thresholds and limitations grow porous, his practice illuminates the friction between play, logic, and emotion, tracing the fragile architectures that hold tangible perception and intangible faith together.
Yuying Herr is a multidisciplinary visual artist whose practice moves between digital worldbuilding, expanded illustration, and speculative image-making. Working at the intersection of technology, memory, and emotional perception, she constructs immersive visual architectures that question how human experience is reshaped in increasingly hybrid realities.
Rhea Hu is an illustrator and visual storyteller pursuing an MFA in Illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design. With a background in Traditional Chinese Medicine, her interdisciplinary practice spans drawing, digital fabrication, and book arts. She constructs visual languages that are distilled and deliberate, infused with tension, precision and irony.
Kate Ferguson (USA) is a photographer, writer, and filmmaker based in Mexico City. Her multidisciplinary practice is rooted in an appreciation for the threshold moments where transformation occurs and realities blur. hrough her work, she considers nostalgic liminality, the sensation of memory, and decisions that lead to psychological and spiritual evolution.
Kuan-Yu Chou is a Taiwanese visual artist currently based in London. Focusing on body memories and inner experiences, her work invites viewers into a silent, tangible visual realm that intertwines body, emotion, and dreams. Through paintings, photographs, and installations, she creates a space where the viewer can reflect on vulnerability, suffering, and survival.
Jace Ambwani is an American artist and junior architect based in Berlin, Germany. Her early work explores themes of anonymity, familiarity, and spatial perception through painting, drawing, and printmaking. More recently, she has incorporated sculptural methods and materials to delve into themes of mortality and her evolving experiences of womanhood.
Doug Winter is a semi-sighted North American conceptual photographic artist and filmmaker whose artworks focus on the preoccupation of light and non-figurative forms. Doug's non-representational photographs of conventional objects and their environments are derived from the human body's resilience to adapt and accommodate a physical disability and emotional trauma.
Esra Sakar (b. 1992, Istanbul) is a fine art photographer and visual artist whose work blends traditional craftsmanship with contemporary conceptual approaches. She draws on mythology, psychology, and archetypes to create visual narratives exploring memory, the subconscious, and identity. Her work has been exhibited internationally in London, Milan, Glasgow, Lancaster, and Istanbul.
Joana Pereira da Costa is a performance-based multidisciplinary artist whose work unfolds at the intersection of body, memory, and resistance. Drawing upon lived experience, feminist philosophy, and poetic inquiry, her practice engages performance as both method and metaphor, a space where the self is simultaneously deconstructed and reassembled.
Ailyn Lee is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York. Working with hand-sculpted stone clay, found objects, and drawings on canvas, she creates dreamlike scenes that explore memory, femininity, and transformation. Her creative process often begins with automatic drawings or fragments of dreams, allowing subconscious imagery to surface organically.
Jiashun Zhou is a fibre artist whose work intricately explores the intersection of memory, space, and emotion through weaving. His artistic practice transforms personal experiences and fleeting moments into tangible, three-dimensional forms. Jiashun Zhou’s work is deeply influenced by his desire to decelerate the rapid pace of modern life and draw attention to the often-overlooked details.
Yasuaki Matsuura is a Tokyo-based contemporary artist whose practice centres on the theme of “new memory.” He uses the camera, its form, function, and cultural role, not just as a tool, but as both subject and medium. His works invite users to slow down, to look, and to feel the presence of time and others. Each camera is not just a device, but a proposition.
Mosaz (Zijun Zhao)'s work is based on her understanding of traditional culture as an Asian individual—an understanding shaped by what she has heard, seen, and deeply felt since childhood. She focuses on symbols, imagery, and rituals embedded in cultural memory, reconstructing them through a personal lens. This is how she expresses the complexity of her inner spiritual world.
Chu Ling-Jung & Tang Zi-Xian are both Taiwanese artists. They are both based in Taipei, where they live and work. Their collaborative project, Clearing the Text, describes the dyslexic patient's intense desire to comprehend text, the despair of being unable to read, and the attempt to regain the ability to read by integrating their body into the text through various methods.
