Stephan Joseph Ravare Jr. transcends the title of mere artist. His work embodies the role of a storyteller, channelling ideas, confronting and breaking barriers, and honouring his Louisiana Creole heritage through his art. Viewing art as a catalyst for transformation and acceptance, Stephan uses culture and differences to not only cope with mental health but to inspire solace and creativity.
Roxana Casillas is a sculptor, born in Mexico City in 1964. Her work aims to celebrate the enigmatic aspects of femininity, delving into her own psyche as both the creator and the subject while offering viewers profound insights into the complexities of existence and the journey of self-discovery. Working primarily with contemporary sculpture, Roxana finds joy in the tangible and transformative nature of this medium.
Mingyue Qu is a forward-thinking product designer renowned for her innovative approach to integrating technology with user-centric design to create immersive digital experiences. With a foundation in tangible product design, Mingyue transitioned to digital platforms, where she excels in blending sensory technology with interactive elements. Her work focuses on enhancing user engagement through personalized and adaptive content.
Elida Diez is an artist and olfactory expert, born in Panama and currently based in the Basque Country. In her creations, she mixes her ethnobotanical, phytotherapeutic, and culinary knowledge with a sensitivity that manages to transform the tangible into the ethereal, transporting us to the deepest universes. She founded Gaua Project to share this biodiverse universe with others.
Eva Reiska is a visual artist from Estonia, working primarily with installation art and painting. Facing depression in her 20s, real birds that she had been keenly observing reminded her of the preciousness of the present moment and freedom. She began creating these reminders for herself through art and, like birds, after graduating, she migrated, traveling to different countries and recording her experience into drawings every day for five years.
Laura Mirarchi is an Italian artist currently based in Florence. Her works are based on experimentation with different mediums with an emphasis on the visual and narrative aspects. In her current participatory practice, she examines through photography and video the feeling of struggle to find a real connection and the contrast between what is visible and what is not.
Stanko Gagrčin is a multimedia artist from Serbia. Although the process of creation is primarily intuitive for Stanko, the theoretical grounding through formal education allows him to always reflexively return to his works and has influenced the diversity of media and artistic genres through which he has expressed himself, positioning his work in a great plurality of aesthetics, sensibilities, and styles in the contemporary moment.
Taline Balian works primarily with portraits. Social media requirements are being represented in her practice by aesthetically attractive faces when seen from far. When closely looked at, these livid faces convey a disturbing feeling of loss of control and glitches, the cracks of the virtual world, and its illusion of perfection. Drained out, most of the Human Faces‘ expressions and facial muscles are fading away.
Coming from user experience design, Caterina has extensively studied human perception and sensory interaction (particularly the visual and cerebral variety). As she is fascinated by the study of perception and stimulus processing in immersive human-interface experiences, she decided to ask questions about the future of co-existence on our planet.
