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.
Joas Nebe is a self-taught artist, born in Hamburg but now located in South Germany. By turning his film cabinet of curiosity into an intriguing jigsaw puzzle of hybrid geometric patterns, Joas Nebe teases the viewer into accessing his game. He believes that "Riddle games of this kind spark creativity and pass on the role of the artist to the viewer."
Kiki Klimt is a contemporary painter based in Ljubljana. Over the years, she experimented on conceptual art, photography, performance, installation, illustration, and design. In the last years, she is returning to the tradition of painting, developing a unique way of painting based on ancient knowledge, contemporary science, and her own study and experience.
Khaldun Oluwa of Eternal Blackness Art is an Atlanta based oil painter, community builder, and activist. His paintings are suffused with ancient African iconography fused with empowering Black imagery. Painting in a figurative style and integrating surrealist elements, Oluwa's art bridges past and present, proving that we still have much to learn from our collective history.
Clara Lemos built a scientific career working as a cancer researcher for more than 15 years, before approaching painting and deciding to start creating her own art. Clara’s work is an attempt to express her subjective concept of beauty – it takes a great deal of inspiration from her emotional states and the most ordinary and mundane little things. It is about giving context and meaning to all the forgotten details.
Santiago-based, German Bustamante is a self-taught abstract artist. Abstraction has allowed him to express his own spiritual vision of life represented by symbolic imagery that deals with ethereal planes, astral projections, primeval feelings, mental and emotional journeys and other intangible human issues. For him, each painting is a journey into his inner self.
Hamida Ouassini’s work is a questioning on the perception of a world which puts us at a distance from what we think and we see. It’s the perception of harmony emerging from the apparent disorganization of the whole; perception of a structure shaping chaos. Curve and straight lines breathe, then doze off. And the spectator cannot contain this curious need to tell a story.
Deepa Khanna Sobti is a Singaporean national of Indian origin. Deepa's art style is abstract expressionist. The biggest inspiration for her work is nature and the processes of corrosion and erosion. Her art and poetry strongly suggest to the viewer to investigate their present experience to realize what reality actually is.
Feixue Mei is an artist, illustrator, and designer from China and based in Missouri, US. Feixue Mei is fascinated by pop culture, social media, cultural adaptation, intimate relation, and identity formation. Her work explores publications, illustrations, sequential arts, videos, installations, and performances.
