Yulin Yuan is an interdisciplinary artist and dedicated art educator, born in China and raised in South Africa. Her practice spans photography, video, and assemblage, focusing on themes of identity, mythology, and displacement. Her work bridges the space of "in-between," exploring the ephemeral nature of identity while questioning the very foundation of the self.
INTERVIEW | Zengyi Zhao
Zengyi Zhao is an artist who primarily uses photography and video as his creative method. His photography revolves around the critique of inauthenticity and alienation brought by capitalism and consumerism. In his work, he visualizes the connections between individual life and grand narratives, discussing the presentation and impact of different sociocultural phenomena such as modernity and spectacle.
INTERVIEW | Gumi Lu
Gumi Guihan Lu is an interdisciplinary artist, originally from Chongqing, China, and now based in New Jersey, USA. She works at the intersection of technology, mythology, art, and culture. Her creative philosophy stems from a dual exploration of world order and personal memory, aiming to build a network of contrasts that are far removed from reality yet capable of explaining it.
INTERVIEW | Qian Chen
Qian Chen is a visual artist based in London and Xi'an. Her latest project, Dreamania, explores new dimensions of childhood memories, nostalgic culture, fancy dreams of irrationality. By observing and recording life trajectories, and reprocessing frozen memories, Qian create a tangible concept of spatial iteration, presenting the product of the interaction between daily life and dreams.
INTERVIEW | Qibai Ting
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.
INTERVIEW | Fang Yutao
Fang Yutao is a Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary artist from China with a strong background in architecture. She reshapes traditional narratives by incorporating complex historical symbols that transcend cultural boundaries, drawing on premodern mythology that embraces pantheism and animism to redefine anthropocentric metaphors and dismantle traditional masculine narratives.
INTERVIEW | Yueming Li
Driven by a fascination with the narrativity of visual art, Yueming Li seeks to delve into the visualization of emotions, feelings, and the inner world through metaphors and symbols. Having lived abroad, Yueming Li contends that visual language erases barriers between diverse languages and cultures. Her upbringing in varied cultural contexts has situated her in an "in-between" state, blending Eastern and Western expressive approaches.
INTERVIEW | Andrés Mario de Varona
Andrés Mario de Varona was born in 1996 and grew up in Miami as a first-generation Cuban-American with two Cuban families. Art is a tool for Andrés to measure cycles of indignation and healing, our growth as human beings, and as a way to record victories. What he aims to create is an attempt to enter the collective human experience, as well as an access point into himself.
INTERVIEW | Wenhui Jiang (Untitled-egg)
Wenhui Jiang (Untitled-egg) s a visual artist and graphic designer who works with multi-disciplinary subjects and media. As a queer, she always has a radical perspective on observing and experiencing the world. Strong satire is characteristic of her work. In her practice, she takes herself as the object of observation and uses her work as a tool to research the context of the era and society behind the individual.
INTERVIEW | Mark Walters
Mark Louis Walters is an American-born artist, designer, and art director. Mark paints grand theatrical works that juxtapose found images, words, and occasionally found objects. His pieces play with multiple meanings of images and words, often incorporating humor or slang definitions. His paintings are frequently completed with sculptural frames he creates to extend both the picture plane itself as well as the possible narrative meanings.
INTERVIEW | Sunny Liu
Sunny Liu is a filmmaker, pianist/composer, and animator. Her work utilizes intimate storytelling to give a voice to the underrepresented. Her latest project, Pianoman, touches upon significant social issues in a non-trauma-based, sensitive cinema verite style. It illustrates the emotional journey the subjects experience, ranging from deep pain to poignant tenderness.
INTERVIEW | Natalia Ludmila
Natalia Ludmila was born in Mexico City and grew up in Toronto, Canada. She is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice shifts between painting, drawing, video, and sound. It can be defined as studio-based research that points to the political—questioning forms of representation and the construction of false or biased narratives in the context of conflict.
INTERVIEW | Yixuan Wu
Yixuan Wu is a visual artist, which currently lives and works in New York. Her sculptural arrangements address the subtle gestures that endow the objects of sensual qualities, the incongruous systems, and the uncanny. By weaving personal narratives into multiple cultural references, Yixuan's practice delves into fragmented memories through layered intricacies
INTERVIEW | Kexin Liu
Kexin Liu is a Chinese multi-disciplinary artist and design researcher based in the UK. Kexin has a fascination with everything queer & peculiar. As a generalist, she particularly enjoys developing simple, yet unexpected art narratives/design solutions based on extensive research and collaboration with people from various disciplines. Her latest projects are 2065 and Lost in Translation.