Intertwining discourses around labyrinths, social anxiety, and post-truth, Junshu Gu’s work is rooted in rhizome theory and draws from her 13 years of experience in interdisciplinary, culture-related media work and her profound expertise. Her practice incorporates painting, sculpture, and time-based media, appearing minimal and abstract, yet formally lithesome and precise.
Hanna Tzong-Han Wu is a Taiwanese choreographer and dancer based in Los Angeles, California. The dance language that lies between Western contemporary, hip-hop, and martial arts punctuates her signature style. Hanna is most interested in creating works that reflect on humans and humanity and believes that arts are the reflection of society. In her work she blends arts, culture, society, humans, and self.
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.
Tong Tong is a cutting-edge fashion designer and creative based in New York City. Tong's designs draw inspiration from a rich tapestry of influences, including personal memories, a profound passion for fashion history, and an adventurous exploration of materials. His collection Home Alone draws inspiration from a cherished childhood memory, the clandestine explorations into his parents' wardrobe.
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.
Fotini Christophillis is an American painter based in Greenville, South Carolina. She explores the presence and absence of figurative suggestions, eliminating specific details in order to express a dream-like snapshot from her subconscious, a kind of cinematographic film still that’s neither “here nor there”. Her paintings are a reflection of her current experience as she seek to understand where she is and where she is going.
Carolina Serrano is a Portuguese artist whose artistic practice develops in the field of sculpture. Serrano’s theoretical research revolves around the sphere of the temporality of Sculpture. The artist is particularly interested in working on the disturbing and mysterious cleavage between what is real and what is illusory, between what is visible and what is invisible, between what is palpable and what is immaterial.
Sergey is a Ukrainian artist based in Kyiv. A genre-defying painter passionately committed to exploring the core principles of hyper-realism, he seeks to redefine the genre with his breathtaking works. The Ukrainian artist creates a stunning anthology of works that he sees as a "burst of emotion," forcing the artist to turn inside out his soul and leave it on the canvas.
István Dukai is an Hungarian artist and graphic designer, currently based in Budapest. The fundamental principle of his compositions is reduction, which is based on natural elements being stylized to geometric shapes and the diverse ways of combining these elements. Sensuality also plays a key role in his pictures. He has opened towards interdisciplinary fields.
A native of Saguenay in Canada, Sue Vo-Ho stands out as a photographer through her approach to memory and evanescence. The melancholy of open spaces inspires her work. Sue Vo-Ho finds her inspiration in the emptiness of nature or cities. Her preferred themes revolve around the desert, buildings, the ocean, urban landscapes and city walls and are tinged with a hint of melancholy.
Omar Reyna is a Canadian artist exploring chemical as well as digital photography and mixing it with sculptural elements and other art practices. Omar Reyna sees his art practice as an act of contriving worlds beyond the visible, between the real and the imagined. He aims to trigger events and actions that connect, disturb and question what we perceive.
Zaccheo Zhang is a Chinese artist studying in the United States. She is convinced that the characteristics of photographic materials are the elements that make photography diversified and rejuvenated. At the same time, she believes that her creative, experimental methods have allowed photography to go back to the close relationship with science and reborn from it to a unique way of artistic expression.
Joanna Wlaszyn is a Polish-French interdisciplinary artist, teacher, and researcher based in Paris. Her work fuses visual language with conceptual experiments. She attempts to create alternative interpretations in response to a constantly evolving post-digital culture. She challenges perception and representation through video, installations, digital art, and hybrid drawings and paintings.
Jayakar Priyadharshan is a Contemporary Speculative Architect of Indian origin currently in the UK. He is well known for his works in the field of architectural aesthetic practice. One of his famous works is what he calls the invisible building (A building facade that can hide from the eyes of Artificial Intelligence), where he talks about the flipsides of artificial intelligence and countering the rise of AI.
José Luis Ramírez is a Mexican painter, currently based in Durango, Mexico. One of the characteristics of his work is a sense of freedom, so his artwork is surrounded by key characters from his daily life as a group of random characters who tell their own story but at the same time, they combine into one, creating a deconstructed social analysis that critiques our time.
WiseTwo is a Kenyan Multi-Disciplinary Artist. WiseTwo’s artwork takes a critical view of social and cultural issues. Often referencing ancient civilizations and the invisible connection between people and cultures, WiseTwo’s work reproduces familiar visual and aural signs, arranging them into new conceptually layered murals and paintings.
Jose Cruzio’s research addresses different concepts such as the continuous questioning of the "place" as far as artistic creation is concerned. It will bring about both collaborative practices and individual ones, and it unfolds in different projects, each one recurring to a dominant artistic subject matter and its media, practices, and achievements according to the research lines of each one of them.
Syl Arena is a California-based artist known for his explorations of non-representational photography. He freely admits that he is addicted to color and shadow. In his current series, Constructed Voids, Arena deconstructs white light into vibrant hues and mixes them onto monochromatic constructs. Through the intersection of light, construct, and lens, Arena finds transformative relationships that he describes as “inner landscapes.”
Patrick Vandecasteele explores the physical, psychological and social posture of humans, the various costumes they wear to dress their intimate hiatuses. He tries to restore the spontaneity of human posture, its fleetingness, the unconscious that inhabits a body and its outfit, the links between composure and thoughts, gestures and intentions, mental melee.
He paint our struggle to face others, to approach others, the struggle between our multiple intimacies, between our imperative of life in society, of submission to servitudes and the imperative need for autonomy, individuality.
Lucrezia Rossi is an Italian photographer based in Berlin, Germany. In her work, Lucrezia photographs staged self-portraits, and daily life encounters by combining humor with reality and intimacy with softness. By re-signifying her past experiences through her images, this search for meaning becomes present, honest, delicate, and light. For Al-Tiba9 she is presenting her latest series, “My Traviata”.
Fan de Fantástica is a Film Director, Collage Maker, and Multi-Talented Artist currently based in Madrid, Spain. In her funky, playful, and over the top imaginary world of mixed media collages, there are numerous details of traditional far east philosophies and contemporary western point of views. One way or another, she has mixed all her 'weird' personal experiences into her collage creations.
Sam Heydt is an American social practice and recycled media artist. Working across different media, Heydt presents an abstract proposition for a world on the periphery of history, one that not only appears haunted by the ghosts of the past but built on it. Her work has been shown in galleries, museums, art fairs, and film festivals worldwide.
Giuseppe Francavilla tries to make the documentary discourse something universal starting from the particular. He dedicates himself mainly to street and documentary photography, working and exhibiting internationally. For Francavilla, photography must not only archive visions of the present but also be the object of evaluation and criticism of the territory for the future.
Peter Backhaus is an award-winning artist based in Sweden whose paintings have been exhibited nationally, as well as in Luxembourg, Germany, Denmark, and China. He describes his works as being created in a space that lies between "intellectual thinking and uncontrolled instinct". Backhaus refers to his compositions as inner pictures with no purpose, where "total silence and total chaos co-exist”.
