Ben Quesnel is a multimedia artist and educator producing work in Stamford, Connecticut. He deconstructs and distorts objects from his everyday experience, apprehending the meanings that have been attached to the items and evaluating them with a new understanding. Through the deliberate placement of these objects in unexpected ways, Quesnel creates a sense of bewilderment, a disruption to challenge certainties and confront preconceptions.
INTERVIEW | Kaiqi Wang
Kaiqi Wang, born and raised in China, is an established fashion and accessory designer based in the Bay Area. Her recent collection ‘Metamorphosis’ is inspired by the post-COVID burnout and the emotional struggles that the public is experiencing but with a message of hope and transformation. While it has been a challenging time, she believes that it has also been a time of growth and metamorphosis.
INTERVIEW | Jiawei Fu
Jiawei Fu is an Interior Designer and Painter, born in Guangzhou, China, and now living in Los Angeles, USA. Jiawei's practice depicts mundanity and emptiness through a surrealized reality to wake up subconsciousness and create new conversations between people. In her latest series, Deceitful Lovers, she uses a delicate palette to expose the sugar-coated modern ignorance and relentlessness in all beings.
INTERVIEW | Milena Jovicevic
Milena Jovicevic is a multidisciplinary artist from Montenegro. Her work is inspired by everyday life situations and paradoxes of contemporary society and the world we live in, that strange place saturated with the media, exaggerated production, and consumption. She works as a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje, Montenegro.
INTERVIEW | Massimiliano Cambuli
Massimiliano Cambuli is a photographer who lives and works between Brussels (Belgium) and Cagliari (Italy). His recent body of work focuses on nudity, which is not the core of his works but rather a phase: “just a narrative ploy,” he says. In a mix of exploration, experimentation, and research, he pushed these works to the extreme borders of graphisms to transfigure reality and drive the viewer beyond aestheticisms.
INTERVIEW | Hyoju Cheon
Hyoju Cheon is an explorer and interdisciplinary artist currently residing in New York. Her multimedia practice responds to the conditions of a site. Her work documents bodies as they move through space: drawing their trajectories and archiving the material traces left behind. Her recent works create surrogates and obstructions for her body, recording her movements as kinetic loops.
INTERVIEW | Kwabena Ofori-Darkwa
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.
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 | Catarina Diaz
Catarina Diaz is a London-based self-taught exploratory artist, not restrained by conventions or formal ways of interpreting the world. She explores various mediums, techniques, and methods according to her inspiration, dealing with the issues of female identity in contemporary times, the search for our true identity, and the reconnection to nature and essence juxtaposed with urban life and what it represents in our life.
INTERVIEW | Ruchita Newrekar
Ruchita Newrekar is a jewelry designer and contemporary jewelry artist. Despite her success in the commercial realm, she remains dedicated to her artistic roots and continues to create one-of-a-kind pieces that showcase her unique artistic voice. Her personal artworks delve deeper into the exploration of connections, emotions, and the transformative power of jewelry.
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 | Robert van de Graaf
Robert van de Graaf is a Dutch visual artist living and working in The Hague, the Netherlands. He is interested in the connections and relations between the mystical in this world, in all its manifestations (the sea, the sky, nature, human-built environments, light and darkness), the sense and the dimension of the spiritual world and our soul. Each piece gives substance to his ongoing journey to seek meaning in life.
INTERVIEW | Polin Huang
Polin Huang is a mixed-media painter based in New York City. Huang's paintings are a critique of female stereotypes, racism, and the influence of advertising media, language, and local culture. Her work considers the youth of today, who are often depressed about life or overly pursuing vague philosophies. These analyses are all told through cartoonish characters with bright colors, glittery accents, and a humorous gaze.
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 | 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 | Farrah Li
Farrah Li is a Chinese Photographic and Installation artist based in London. Her creative process revolves around the exploration of materials such as balloons, plastic, strings, and fabric, as she seeks to unearth hidden dimensions and identities within them. By manipulating and transforming these materials, she aims to challenge conventional notions and expand the boundaries of perception.
INTERVIEW | Agnieszka Stopyra
Agnieszka Stopyra (born in 1988) is an illustrator and graphic designer. In her fashion illustrations, she combines an expressive use of lines and subtle patches of colour, and in her graphic designs, she uses collage and combines it with surrealism and pop art, which she absolutely loves. The main theme in both these spheres is a woman with a whole spectrum of emotions, anxieties, inspirations, and her own micro-worlds.
INTERVIEW | Yuxiang Dong
Dong Yuxiang is an art, educational, and social worker. His practices and research focus on the exploration of photography and media art as ethnographic methods in the Anthropocene. Throughout his career, he has exhibited internationally, in the USA, China, and the UK. He has won prizes and has presented his research in international institutions and conferences.
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 | p:d - Shuochun Xiang
p:d (Shuochun Xiang) is a London-based artist from Jiangsu, China. Integrating her life practice into her artistic practice, her work was involved in a wide range of media, including but not limited to sculpture, moving images, text, and performance. p:d tends to choose basic and daily materials, focuses on East Asian social issues from a female perspective, and explores themes of alienation and body politics.