Textile

INTERVIEW | Zihao Zhou

INTERVIEW | Zihao Zhou

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.

INTERVIEW | Rosie Zirou Zhang

INTERVIEW | Rosie Zirou Zhang

Rosie Zirou Zhang is a fashion and textile designer based in New York City, with a strong focus on womenswear and weaving. Central to her creative process is the harmonious interplay of textures and colors, a signature element evident throughout her work. Her unique approach involves crafting her own fabrics and exploring the communication between fashion and fine art.

INTERVIEW | Angel Jiaqi Qin

INTERVIEW | Angel Jiaqi Qin

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.

INTERVIEW | Ruoyan Er

INTERVIEW | Ruoyan Er

Ruoyan Er is an artist in the fashion realm, specializing in draping, garment construction, and textiles. As a storytelling designer, she skillfully uses design to convey emotions, serving as a visual language narrator. She merges natural textures with fashion aesthetics, integrating the unique qualities weathering brings. Each fabric tells a story of time passing, and her designs echo the wonders of continuous change and rebuilding.

INTERVIEW | Chelsea Ning

INTERVIEW | Chelsea Ning

Chelsea Ning is a photographer and textile designer currently based in Providence, Rhode Island. She is grappling with subtle feelings based on the ideas of dissonance, self-identity, concealment, displacement, isolation, and nostalgia in her work. Chelsea has been interested in different ways of media based on visual expressions, including film installations, paintings, and prints.

INTERVIEW | Jackie Jiang

INTERVIEW | Jackie Jiang

Jackie Jiang is a Chinese Designer and Multi-Media Artist whose work often features a unique blend of traditional paper-making techniques and contemporary ink and acrylic artistry. Through her evocative works, she masterfully merges Eastern artistic traditions with Western influences, forging a path that celebrates cultural heritage while embracing the spirit of innovation.

INTERVIEW | Devika Pararasasinghe

INTERVIEW | Devika Pararasasinghe

Devika Pararasasinghe is currently living and working in London by trade as an artist and writer. Her practice deals with[in] the working-class [invisible]-labour ecosystem[s] and [invisible]-reproductive labours, giving into the visuals between low-fi and high-art aesthetic scenarios. In addition, writing for Devika is an act of monological autonomy and re-narrativising.

INTERVIEW | Sitong Yin

INTERVIEW | Sitong Yin

Sitong Yin is a Chinese artist and the granddaughter of a tailor. She is primarily a fiber artist and works around fiber and textiles, installations, and performance, currently based in Chicago, IL. Her work explores translations between materials, places, and cultures and the poetic and spiritual moments revealed in the gaps of translations.

INTERVIEW | Judit Bodrogi

INTERVIEW | Judit Bodrogi

Judit Bodrogi, a textile artist from Budapest, uses yarn like other artists use their pencils, drawing on canvas with needle and yarn. Her pictures present the pressures placed on us by our own society. Judit often deals with these deep topics through her own emotions, working and processing her own traumas throughout the art.

INTERVIEW | Deborah Kruger

INTERVIEW | Deborah Kruger

Deborah Kruger’s latest artwork focuses on the tragic losses of the 21st century, specifically the impacts of human-induced climate change and habitat fragmentation on bird extinction. Kruger hopes that her environmental artwork invites dialogue about the importance of preserving wild spaces, animals, especially vulnerable birds, and protecting habitat for all species, including humans.

INTERVIEW | Paula Fernández López

INTERVIEW | Paula Fernández López

Paula Fernández López is a Spanish designer, born in Seville in 2002. Paula's works of art focus on the creative process's conceptual basis. It allows one to get a free interpretation of her designs, which norms and standards show very clearly and identify aesthetics. Ripped textures, a short neutral color palette, and an avant-garde style are the main elements that make her different and define her as an artist.

INTERVIEW | Rana Huwais

INTERVIEW | Rana Huwais

Rana Huwais is a mixed-media artist specializing in printmaking and soft sculpture. In her work, Rana explores ideas of nostalgia, childhood, memory, and the complexity of being a second-generation immigrant from a nation currently undergoing the trauma of war. Formally, she engages with these themes with the use of bright colors, expressionistic and childlike mark-making, cultural motifs like the evil eye and Arabic script.

INTERVIEW | SuJung Jo

INTERVIEW | SuJung Jo

SuJung Jo is a Brooklyn-based artist who works with photography, woodworking, and sculpture. Jo uses organza to veil her images, both as a psychological strategy but also an innovative growth in her approach to photography. In doing so, she stretches the boundaries of the two-dimensional photography and integrates it with the three-dimensional possibilities of sculpture.

INTERVIEW | Alexandra Fly

INTERVIEW | Alexandra Fly

Alexandra Holownia is a performance and interdisciplinary conceptual artist who made actions in public space, costumes, sculptures, drawings, video, text, lectures. Alexandra Holownia's works touch on taboo topics related to gender. She demonstrates against exclusion, discrimination based on age, sexism, and patriarchal structures in women and men's private and public relations. Calls for socio-political tolerance, acceptance of human rights, and freedom of sexual self-determination.

INTERVIEW | Ryoji Morimoto

INTERVIEW | Ryoji Morimoto

Ryoji Morimoto is a mixed-media artist who was born in Kochi, a rural area of Japan. His simple upbringing infused his childhood with the legacy and lifestyle of coexistence with nature. His works are based on the relationship between something disappearing, changing, and arising with the flow of time and the human being. He often gets inspiration from simple daily life elements, such as the natural world, and visualize the relationship between their background and human beings.

INTERVIEW | Marina Gasparini

INTERVIEW | Marina Gasparini

Marina Gasparini was born in Gabicce Mare. She lives and works in Bologna, Italy. After graduation from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ravenna, she started her artistic activity in Bologna in the '80s. Her practice focuses on living places and is mostly based on drawing, embroynding, and installations. Since 2001, the employment of textiles has been constant in her works.

INTERVIEW | Yseult.D

INTERVIEW | Yseult.D

The choice of the medium is primordial for Yseult.D. Photographs come to life. An innovative concept of art to wear is born. Each piece is made in an ultra-limited series and becomes collector's item after a series of 12. The works to wear are all provided with a certificate of authenticity.

INTERVIEW | Aomi Kikuchi

INTERVIEW | Aomi Kikuchi

Aomi Kikuchi is a Japanese creator of innovative fine arts. She is inspired by Buddha’s philosophies of impermanence, insubstantiality, and suffering in all life—referred to in Japanese as Mujo(無常), Muga (無我), and Ku,(苦). She raises awareness that acceptance of impermanence and insubstantiality can liberate from dissatisfaction or suffering.