Shou-An Chiang currently lives and works in London. She works across photography, video, performance, and installation, in which she explores the ambiguity of relationships and identities, and portrays alienation in a pluralistic society from her own experience. Her recent project, QUEERASIAN, portrays queer Asian people in Western society, and aims to show the faces and stories of these communities from an insider's perspective.
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.
INTERVIEW | Andi Zhang
Andi Zhang is an architectural designer and a visual artist in the architecture field. Andi focuses on using unconventional methods to dive into architecture. Instead of designing conventional independent buildings, she is trying to use other components to build up architecture. Her project Vision is designed as a narrative museum about Movies in Los Angeles.
INTERVIEW | Yihan Wang
Yihan Wang is an illustration student at the School of Visual Arts, focusing on children’s books and book illustrations.
Yihan mainly discusses psychological problems in our society and uses wild animals and insects as symbols to concrete human mood. In his series of watercolor, he uses animals and kids to analyze the psychological burdens of kids in today’s society.
INTERVIEW | Wenxu Zhao
Wenxu Zhao is an illustration artist, born in China and currently living in New York. Her work focuses primarily on invention and fantasy. Her artwork and paintings are inspired by her daydreams, her discovery of beauty in life, her self-reflection, and her views on certain aspects of life. Her purpose is to express her emotions and thoughts while also bringing beauty and warmth to the rush and chaos of modern life.
INTERVIEW | Nouli Omer
Nouli Omer is a multidisciplinary artist, actress, writer, and comedian. ver the years and up to this day, as an autodidact visual artist, her work ranges from drawing to embroidery, assemblages, lighting fixtures, video, and drawing on plates. Alongside her activities as an artist, she continues to act in theater, television series, and cinema, as well as writing and publishing books, personal columns, poems, short stories in magazines, and more.
INTERVIEW | Mariana Arrieta Ibarra
Mariana Arrieta Ibarra is 29 years old and Mexican photographer. Her project Central de Abastos was shot in Querétaro, a city in the center of México. It documents the market called “Mercado de Abastos”. This market is responsible for all the products that the rest of the markets in the city sell, making it the most important. It is a bustling place, without a single minute of silence between its busy streets.
INTERVIEW | Aleš Jungmann
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.
INTERVIEW | Zijun Zhao (Mosa)
Zijun Zhao (Mosa) graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Her work is based on the recognition and pride of her Asian identity and also the conflict between real life and the illusional world. Every drawing is a process of quarreling with herself that she is creating a world without logic but with order, where she has an opportunity to feel safe.
INTERVIEW | Audrey Messas
Audrey Messas is a French-Israeli mixed media artist of Moroccan descent. She lives in Tel Aviv and works at an intersection of visual art and embodiment practices. Her creations include photography, acrylic and oil paint, collages, and calligraphy. Her evolving work addresses more urgent collective issues, such as culture wars and ecological collapse.
INTERVIEW | Aiman
Aiman (1984) is an interdisciplinary artist, living and working in Singapore. His current practice explores philosophical questions, theories, and ideas observed within the context of contemporary discourse. Aiman views his practice as an attempt to inspire others to look inward—a journey of returning to one’s true self—and to reconnect to the ways in which individuals intrinsically relate to one another.
INTERVIEW | Xuemeng Zhang
Xuemeng Zhang is a visual artist whose practice is driven by exploring connections between the mind and the eye. Her work navigates between identity and culture, belonging and alienation, and apprehension and mindfulness. Zhang was born in Beijing, and currently lives and works in New York City. Her latest project, Other Rooms, is a photographic project on the reconstruction of imaginary spaces.
INTERVIEW | David Moješčík
David Moješčík, aka MojDa, belongs to the middle generation of Czech sculptors. In his work, he deals with figurative sculpture. He uses all the advantages of sculpture in terms of material, allowing him to vary his sculptures in many positions, poses, and postures. He uses his own approach and handwriting in these subjects, but he often likes to work with hidden symbols or a greater or lesser degree of irony and exaggeration.
INTERVIEW | Asmae Mouayn
Asmae Mouayn, alias ‘Asmyn’, is a Moroccan fractal artist based in Marrakesh. Her artwork attempts to demonstrate that science and art go hand in hand and that equations can be set up to an artistic visualization. By using mathematical formulas, she creates unique fractal art pieces. She wants to arouse the public’s curiosity and push people to imagine the narratives and stories behind every fractal.
INTERVIEW | Mihail Vuchkov
Mihail Vuchkov is a Bulgarian artist. His latest project, The Other Bulgarian Women premiered in Sofia, Bulgaria, on International Women's Day, and it sparked a national controversy. The project show trans women in traditional Bulgarian dress and wreathed in Bulgarian flowers as a statement of national identity. It is a statement being hotly contested by nationalist groups and parties in the country.
INTERVIEW | YaXi Zhou
YaXi Zhou is a fashion designer. She mostly focuses on the emotional connection with human beings. She has always been committed to sustainable design, and she is currently working on using natural plants for fabric dyeing. Her latest project, Freedom from Shadow, was inspired by people's anxiety regarding their appearance and enables viewers to explore the stories and experiences behind the physical changes.
INTERVIEW | Liao Qian
Liao Qian 廖倩 (they/them) is a glass artist based in Brooklyn, NY. As a chronic trauma survivor, Chinese non-binary, bilingual & multicultural creative, Joss is devoted to making space and taking space in the form of art. As a survivor of domestic violence, socio-political trauma, and sexual assault, Joss aims to inspire shared tenderness and radical vulnerability.
INTERVIEW | Yalan Wen
Yalan Wen is an artist based in New York City who works on computational images, new media installations, and motion graphics. Born and raised in Taiwan, she developed her curiosity about art and science. Her work explores the subtle events that happen beyond the surface, finding the balance between simplicity and nuanced philosophical interpretations.
INTERVIEW | Broly Su
Born and raised in Changsha, China, Broly Su is an Atlanta-based illustrator and graphic designer. Broly creates most of his work digitally, taking inspiration from hip-hop music, graffiti, sneakers, toys, and street culture. Heavily influenced by artists like Kenny Scharf, Steven Harrington, and Gang Box, Broly creates in a consistent style working with ink, acrylic, posca markers, and ballpoint pens to achieve his bold-lined and graffiti drawing style.
INTERVIEW | Koo J
Koo J is a South Korean artist, currently based in Seoul, South Korea. She works on photography with a warm color film camera. The loneliness and anxiety of everyday life in the crushed image, while recalling the feeling of excitement, also express various emotions, such as moments of the past and fears and expectations for the future. For painting, she works on abstractions to convey emotions.