Artsted Catalogue 2022

99 Future Blue-Chip Artists.

Artsted Catalogue, 2023 Edition.

ISBN: 979-12-210-2322-0

Published by Artisfact ltd, 2022-2023

71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden,

London, England, WC2H 9JQ

Designed by: Ilaria Castelli

Project management: Anna Frattini


INTRODUCTION

TO THE CATALOGUE

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The “99 Future Blue-Chip artists” is a project

that arose from the urgent need within the

contemporary art market to find ways to

support a new generation of up-and-coming

artists, while bringing their vision to a wider

audience of collectors and art lovers.

For its first-ever edition, “99 Future Blue-Chip Artists”

took the form of a printed and curated hardcover edition,

featuring artists from all around the globe working

across a plethora of media, addressing unique and

challenging concepts.

The creators of the present list - the team behind Artsted

have always been committed to creating experiences

that connect all of the market actors in meaningful

ways, backed by analogue experiences and objects.

For this reason we are convinced that a print edition

of the “art market star nominees” can create a unique

network of global partners and foster synerges among

all of the actors involved: be they artists, collectors, gallerists

or journalists.

Here is to the changemakers, powerhouses, visionaries,

rebels, disruptors and, most importantly, creators.

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INTRODUCTION

TO THE ARTISTS

#01

Adam

Detre

#05

Amanda

Seibæk

#02

Alessandro

Malossi

#06

Amy

Jackson

#03 #07

Alice

Massone

Andrea

Abbatangelo

#04 #08

Alicja

Patanowska

Anna

Bochkova

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#09

Annahita

Brooks

#15

Chanbyul

Park

#10

Armando

Cabba

#16

Chris

Tille

#11

Benjamin Mario

Massa

#17

Claudia

Fuggetti

#12

Benjamin

Cunningham

#18

Clifford

Prince King

#13

Cajsa

von Zeipel

#19

Daniel

Paul

#14

Camilla

Marinoni

#20

Daniel

Freaker

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#21

Dasha

Minkina

#27

Ezekiel Wong

Kel Win

#22

Dasha

Pears

#28

Farhad

Nikfam

#23

Ela

Menescal

#29

Felix

Kindelán

#24

Elizabeth

Withstandley

#30

FEWOCiOUS

#25

Elliott

Mickleburgh

#26

Erik

Minter

#31

Francisco

Gonzalez

Camacho

#32

Gulsah

Bayrak

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#33

Habib

Hajallie

#39

James

Tapscott

#34

Hannah JH.

Bang

#40

Jiayu

Liu

#35

Hannah

Gulland

#41

Johan

Deckmann

#36

Hannah

Levy

#42

John

Yuyi

#37

Imola Nelli

Szilágyi

#43

Juls

Gabs

#38

Jack

Coulter

#44

Junyu

Luo

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#45

Kevin

Eason

#51

Lunyu

Fu

#46

Khari

Turner

#52

Manuel

Gardina

#47

Lakwena

Maciwer

#53

Margaux

Walter

#48

Le Thai

Huyen Chau

#54

Maria

Lysenko

#49

Louisa

Clement

#55

Maria

Myasnikova

#50

Lucrezia

Costa

#56

Marijke

De Roover

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#57

Meichen

Lu

#63

Nero

Cosmos

#58

Melanie

Geyer

#64

Nick

Thomm

#59

Michele

Bazzoli

#65

Nicola

Tineo

#60

Mircea

Cirtog

#66

Nicole

Santoro

#61

Moe

Leady

#67

Nike

Ossler

#62

Nadia

Musmeci

#68

Niko

Kapa

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#69

Nina

Sumarac

#75

Sally

Kindberg

#70

Nygilia

McClain

#76

Sarah

Zapata

#71

Oh de Laval

#77

Sarah

BahBah

#72

Peggy

Kliafa

#78

Sève

Favre

#73

Polina

Filippova

#79

Shumaiya

Khan

#74

Pyae Phyo Thant

Nyo

#80

SiiGii

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#81

Sofia

Crespo

#87

Tiffany

Barber

#82

Sola

Olulode

#88

Tiziano

Summo

#83

Spencer

Shakespeare

#89

Tong

Wu

#84

Stella

Kapezanou

#90

William

Grob

#85

Stephanie

Nnamani

#91

Xiangyu

Dong

#86

Stephanie

Sarley

#92

Xiuqian

Hu

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#93 #99

Xu

Yang

Zhen Feng

Ang

#94

Yasmin

Noorbakhsh

#95

Yixuan

Wang

#96

Yixuan

Bai

#97

Young

Jang

#98

Yuyue

Zhu

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#01

ADAM DETRE


In his work Adam creates series of minimal, abstract

sculptures inspired by organic forms, working with natural,

sustainable, or salvaged media. Each series seeks

to design, test, and evaluate a visual language focusing

on Minimalism, Simplism, and Geometry.

Adam prefers to ‘paint’ using light and uses light to accentuate

the shapes and forms he creates. The negative

space is as valuable as the positive space. The shadows

are as valuable as the highlights. The way they

interplay is what creates the truest beauty. As the light

changes the piece also changes. Where possible the

artist is committed to continuing to use materials that

are sustainably sourced, salvaged, or have a neutral

environmental impact.

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Artwork: ‘PRINT #3 - WALL CARVING #10‘, 40x60 cm.

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#02

ALESSANDRO MALOSSI

Born in 1993, Alessandro Malossi is an Italian artist. A

provocative figure, that started experiencing art by

drawing the irregular outline of Bologna that he used to

see outside his home window. He developed his technique

at the NABA academy in Milan, although his real

path into the art world began after graduation when he

discovered his own and unique style.

In 2016, Alessandro takes another step and his art meets

fashion, working for major international brands like

Calvin Klein, Nike, Trussardi, Hogan, and more. The Academy,

and the collaboration with brands and celebrities,

gave him the chance to experience both pictorial

and digital art: his work perfectly fits in the current social

and digital generation era.

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Artwork: ‘The Creation‘, 70x50, acrylic on canvas.

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#03

ALICE MASSONE

Born in 1998, Alice Massone is a photographer and artist

graduate at European Institute of Design in Photography,

in Milan. Her research mainly unravels between

surrealism and metaphysics, that she expresses through

still life photography. After studying foreign languages

in high school she felt the need to find a way to express

herself through visual language. Photography proved

to be the visual representation of her world where humans

are not meant to be in their concrete form, but

only idealized with inanimate objects. The creative process

of Alice consists in bringing a situation or a theme

on another level of comprehension where the objects

and the interactions among them are most conceptualized

synthesis of the message.

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Artwork: ‘Breath‘, 2021, Fine art photography, 50x70 cm.

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#04

ALICJA PATANOWSKA


Alicja Patanowska is a visual artist and designer who

graduated from the London Royal College of Art as well

as from the Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław.

“I’m intrigued that pottery, traditionally confined to the

context of applied art, regains the status of an equal

medium in the space of the fine arts. The inferior status

of the pottery made it somehow a medium for the

oppressed and the excluded - folk and naïve artists, women,

and artisans. The physical aspect of the work was

more visible than intellectual and critical. The intentional

use of pottery as the medium for artistic expression is not

only reversing such a trend but also bringing new, unique

qualities. Deeply rooted in tradition, postcolonial, feminist

and environmentalist discourse, pottery with its utilitarian

context, haptic sensations, material considerations, and

process orientation offers me a novel language to talk

about burning issues of today.

A very important aspect of my works is related to the

recognition of the role of tacit knowledge in the creative

process of the artist/artisan/potter. In my artistic work,

I’ve been using various techniques but the throwing wheel

has been always central to my creation. I believe that

17 years of nearly daily practice with the throwing wheel

gave me not only technical mastery but also a specific

insight into the creation process and embodied knowledge.

This experience become pivotal in my work which is

oriented more on the process (matriarchal) that on the

result (patriarchal), embracing errors rather than hiding

them, letting be guided by body and intuition more than

fixated on the preconceived aim. The critical context is

often being born in the process of making the object and

not necessarily verbalized upfront.”

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Artwork: ‘Composition 20‘, 2022, porcelain, engobe,

MDF board, acrylic paint. H: 57 W: 36 D: 7 cm.

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#05

AMANDA SEIBÆK


“I am Amanda Seibæk and I am a painter and printmaker.

My practice centers on themes inspired by scientific

explanations of natural phenomena. This I use as a tool

to describe turmoil in contemporary life through a more

poetic lens. The theme can be used as a force to ask

questions, to stretch facts into fiction, and to visualize inner

emotions. I am inspired by Maggie Nelsons autotheorical

works, connecting multiple fields of knowledge,

never deeming any irrelevant for her explorations.

Materially, I connect the mediums of painting and print.

I see colours in layers and with colours I shape my figures.

When connecting print and paint I try to develop a

language where print is not locked but rather freed by

the brush as a playful tool to make sense of something

intuitive. My images exist in 3 mediums; digital, paint

and print. The mediums inspire each other. The screen’s

reflectiveness inspires the choice of canvas and the

layers in print. The imprint of the prints on the canvas orchestrates

the compositions on the final painting which

I conduct with my brush. Through this material investigation,

I analyze the close relationship between emotion

and motion to create images which provoke a response

in my spectators.”

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Artwork: ‘Misty Love‘, oil, ink, screen print, oil pastel, charcoal

pastel and Airbrush on sheer material, 3x1,8 m, (2022).

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Artwork: ‘Journey‘, Immersive video installation, Including

found objects and mathematical formulae, drawing 526.75

x 210.57cm, three books, installation, string and video.

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#06

AMY JACKSON

Amy Jackson is a British artist based in East London. Jackson

studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine

Art at the University of Oxford, 2005 - 2008, and later returned

to The Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment

to study Sustainable Finance. She is a conceptual

artist with 15 years of experience blending philosophy,

nature and science to create meticulous immersive

experiences in traditional galleries and unconventional

spaces. Her work includes street art, happenings, photography,

painting and found objects.

Jackson explores issues such as climate change, consumerism,

mental health, social inequalities and critically,

how these themes are inextricably linked. Her work often

exists outside of the ‘white cube’ and inside the communities

it touches. Experience spans art commissions for

Kensington + Chelsea Art Week to public speaking on climate

change. Her work has been featured in the Times,

Art World Magazine, Modern Art Oxford, Time Out and The

Tate Britain.

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Artwork: ‘Bienes Historie‘, 2022, 177x133, painting.

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#07

ANDREA ABBATANGELO

Andrea Abbatangelo is a visual artist born in Terni, Italy in

1981, who lives and works in London (UK).

“I am an artist working within the expanded fields of

sculpture, land art, performance, and installation. My

work is a confluence of several disciplines such as sociology,

history, and geography, and my artistic research

moves as a language enabling to cross disciplines and

platforms, encouraging aware knowledge of fisical and

social issues; in this way, I produce artwork for the public

context. For me, performance has a unique contribution

to the biographical, physical, and social understanding

of contemporary concerns. It represents and translates

meaning facilitating reflection and understanding.”

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#08

ANNA BOCHKOVA


Anna Bochkova (born 1995, Rostov on Don) is a visual artist

based in Hamburg, Germany. She holds MFA diploma

in sculpture from the Academy of fine arts Vienna. Bochkova’s

visual research is based strongly on building

her own dramaturgy where her sculptures are the characters,

which lets us in a mythological environment,

where a space for a critical reflection is being built.

Through her work inspired by cultural narratives, tales,

spoken histories, and visual codes Anna Bochkova develops

a complex frame of references, where a sculpture

is a conundrum that always gives a different answer.

Her latest projects include international group and solo

shows in Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Spazio Serra Milan,

Kunstraum Lakeside, ReA! Art Fair, Kunsthaus Wien, Superbien!

Berlin, TakeCare LA.

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Artwork: ‘Just Around The Cosmos‘, 2022, mixed media

installation, ceramics.

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Artwork: ‘ROM FONT‘, 2021, Ritualistic Performance.

Tile Dress #2, Liturgical Objects and Venice Flood Shoes.

Water was then gathered in 5ml Glass Holy Water containers

for preservation.

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#09

ANNAHITA BROOKS

Annahita Brooks is a half-polish half-Persian contemporary

artist investigating her heritage through

lens-based media, installation art, and site-specific

research. An MFA graduate in Fine Art at the University

of Oxford, Annahita is exploring her Persian heritage

through photography and mixed media to create an

image of and compare anatomical similarities to her

biological father, to subsequently locate him. Through

her Polish heritage, she is investigating her family’s involvement

in political underground movements and

their eventual withdrawal from society.

The use of lens-based media, especially analog photography,

is vital for the investigatory and documentary

aspects of site-specific research as it supports the

ephemeral nature of the themes and stories she investigates.

These investigatory procedures then inform

the aesthetic and spatial decisions in Annahita’s installations.

Currently, this aesthetic is inspired by polish

modernism and catholic kitsch objects and thematically

deals with withdrawal and hermit lifestyles.

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#10

ARMANDO CABBA


Armando Cabba’s body of work primarily consists of

the duality of portraiture and abstraction along with

everything in between. Primarily known for his portraits,

his subjects are figurative in nature yet are loaded

with colour and echo the handling seen in his Brut series.

Cabba’s intimate relationship with his subjects is

exuded through subtle nuances combined with his attention

to detail. Born in Montreal, Cabba earned his BFA

from Concordia University. He was then accepted into

The Florence Academy of Art the following year which

he attended briefly before opening his own studio in

Italy. Armando’s work is held in private collections in the

United States, Europe, and Canada. After a few years

working independently in Italy, he moved to Paris where

he currently continues to create.

“I create for myself especially when it comes to the self

portrait series. By capturing myself in different states

of mind, I’m opening up a dialogue on what it is to be

human and mental health. In today’s social media-driven

society, we tend to hide away the more vulnerable

sides of ourselves and project an image of happiness

for the world to see. Inspiration comes from the act

of feeling regardless of it being a positive or negative

emotion".

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Artwork: ‘Dad‘, Oil on Canvas, 113.5 x 146 cm, 2017.

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#11

BENJAMIN MARIO MASSA

Benjamin Mario Massa (*1992) is a visual artist who lives

and works in Switzerland, in 2019 he graduated with a BA

in Fine Arts at Zurich University of Arts. His work explores

the highly sensitive and the introverted side of the society,

he emphasizes the urgency of noticing one’s existence

and engaging in this discourse. With the basis of

his perception, which leads him from sensitive moments

to unavoidable overstimulation, Massa deals with the

topics of relations, relationships and the interaction of

human beings. Whereby closeness and distance, verbal

and nonverbal communication, such as physicality

and sexuality have their importance.

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Artwork: ‘È ABBASTANZA AMARA, NE BENIAMIN?‘,

oil on cotton, 70 x 65 cm, 2022.

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#12

BENJAMIN CUNNINGHAM


Benjamin Cunningham was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,

and is an artist, author, and photographer

who currently studies fine arts and political science at

George Washington University. Cunningham began to

emphasize producing art as a part of his career in late

2018; however, the last year of work has been his most

developmental, stylistically, and creatively. In March

of 2021, Cunningham worked on various murals as an

artistic response to the Black Lives Matter protests and

the use of excessive force by police. A few months later,

Cunningham began an independent research study

alongside the multinational company Nix Color Sensor

concerning introducing sustainable paint alternatives

in the art-classroom setting. This study would develop

a laboratory process for utilizing enzymes to extract

high yields of pigmentation from biomatter. In August

of 2021, Cunningham published his first work, a poetry

book titled Le Jardin: A Walk Through the Gilded Gardens,

which conveys his experiences as a youthful and

emerging artist in his hometown.

Currently, Cunningham has focused on evolving and

expanding his artistic process as he looks toward Washington

D.C. and New York City as exhibition cities.

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Artwork: ‘The Denunciation of The Shepherd‘, 78x108 in,

2021-2022.

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#13

CAJSA VON ZEIPEL

Cajsa von Zeipel is a sculptor whose work delves into

identity, gender, queerness and normativity. She has

become known for her white, large-scale plaster sculptures

but in her recent works she has left the reference

to classical sculpture and developed an even more

complex technique.

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Artwork: , FLUFF YOU, YOU FLUFFIN’ FLUFF, 2020, two rubber

eggs, two stuffed animals (Pug and St. Bernard puppies),

two toy guns, four rubber macarons, acrylic nails, aqua

resin, aquarium tubing, artificial folding knife, barbed

wire socks, basketball hoop, bedazzled letters “ILY,” bike

cable lock, bike pump, bridle rack, car USB port, car phone

mount, carabiners, Crocs charms, defender sport shield,

Easter Island head mug, expandable foam, fabrics, hair

coils, half face respirator, hardware, keychain “subway

train,” keychain “hey chihuahua,” keychain “metro card,”

lenticular, luggage tag, mini-Mermaid tail, nail file (FLUFF

YOU, YOU FLUFFIN’ FLUFF), ombre purple to pink fringe, phone

case, pigmented silicone, Plexiglass, stirrup, stroller wheel,

Styrofoam, trigger point massager, tubing, vaginal dilator,

wallet chain, wire hanger, wood, zip ties, zonkers, 75 × 52 ×

40 inches. Courtesy of the Rubell Museum.

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#14

CAMILLA MARINONI


“At the heart of my work, there is an intimate and

personal tale about the social and spiritual aspects

of daily life and which, inevitably, turn into an experience.

All are filtered and re-elaborated through my

body. Emptiness, wounds, care, and the female world,

are frequent topics that emerge and that attempt to

be a stimulus, a starting point for a reflection on the

meaning of our existence. I studied sculpture, but the

creative process also manifests itself through different

artistic expressions: from installations to clothing, from

painting to video clips, from sculpture to performance

arts. Depending on the project, I choose the material

best suited for its development, though I have a special

liking for thread (cotton and doilies) and for the earth

(ceramic), two archetypal elements that express a female

feeling of patience and dedication. Softness and

hardness, delicateness, and strength are elements that

alternate one with the other, grazing each other and

forming a contrast that expresses the essence of each

human being. The cotton threads stretching across the

surfaces (ceramic, paper or canvas) move the thought

from one end to the other, making one think about

bonds between objects and between people.”

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Artwork: ‘Voce del corpo. Fame d'amore‘, 15 elements in

ceramics and polish, various dimensions, 2021 - ongoing.

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#15

CHANBYUL PARK


Chanbyul is an artist and designer from South Korea,

who lives and works in Eindhoven, Netherlands. After

completing her Bachelor's studies in Industrial Design at

Ewha Womans University in Seoul, she majored in Contextual

Design at Design Academy Eindhoven, where

she obtained her Master's degree.

’As an Artist-Designer, I am interested in recording my

perspective on the order of nature on two- or three-dimensional

objects. Cubism and Impressionism are

examples of ways how painters portrayed the world

from their perspectives on drawings. In writing, such a

portrayal is achieved through various types of literature,

such as poems and novels. By researching these

different ways of documenting the world, I established

my unique way of recording how I interpret the world in

my works. These works include paintings, objects, and

graphic novels.’

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Artwork: ‘Light, existence, shadow’, 01 shadow painting.

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#16

CHRIS TILLE


Chris Tilles's art is the key to a special form of perfection

and elegance. It is about shapes and lines, order and

beauty - but Chris brings it all up to an entirely different

level. For him, it`s all about making invisible truths visible.

The magic behind creation, in a truly cosmic sense: his

specialty is the science of astronomy - and he transforms

it to art.

For his works, Tille speaks to researchers and is given gigantic

packages of data by the Max Planck Institute. It`s

all about the collision of black holes, gravitational waves,

and the visualization of cosmic occurrences. Tille spends

months sitting in front of his computers transforming

original sound documents from space into meticulously

calculated graphic structures. The result is astonishing:

in his works, galactic events become visible and literally

flow towards the observer - the language of the stars in

the form of modern art freed of all embellishments.

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Artwork: Personal portrait.

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Artwork: ‘BIG BANG ‘, Limited Edition - 6,

Photo exposure on Ilford Paper.

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Artwork: ‘Hot zone series‘, 2020-2021.

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#17

CLAUDIA FUGGETTI

Born in Taranto in 1993, after graduating in Cultural Heritage,

she was admitted with a scholarship for a Master's

degree in Photography and Visual Design at NABA,

Milan. Subsequently, she continued her studies in Digital

Cultures at Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, where she

graduated with honours.

Claudia Fuggetti's research sees the creation of images

as the endpoint of a visual investigation balanced

between the real and the unreal, intending to propose

new reading keys to interpreting the contemporary.

Going beyond the pure objectivity of the visible, through

photography, video and digital painting, she creates

alternative and possible worlds, which become a mirror

of human tension towards the future and technology.

The image, constructed or captured, becomes part of a

subjective view that analyses new perspectives and scenarios,

enriched by personal use of colour and different

mediums that coexist with the photographic practice.

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#18

CLIFFORD PRINCE KING

Clifford Prince King is an artist living and working in New

York and Los Angeles. King documents his intimate relationships

in traditional, everyday settings that speak

on his experiences as a queer black man. In these instances,

communion begins to morph into an offering of

memory; it is how he honors and celebrates the reality

of layered personhood. Within King's images are nods

to the beyond. Shared offerings to the past manifest in

codes hidden in plain sight, known only to those who sit

within a shared place of knowledge.

Public collections holding his work include the Hammer

Museum, Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum, Los Angeles

County Museum of Arts, ICA Miami, Minneapolis

Institute of Art and Studio Museum in Harlem. King has

recently exhibited work at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery (Los Angeles),

Higher Pictures (New York City), Leslie Lohman

Museum (New York City), Light Work (Syracuse, NY), MASS

MoCA, Marc Selwyn Gallery (Beverly Hills), and Stars Gallery

(Los Angeles). Publications carrying King’s images as

commissioned work and features include Aperture, BUTT,

Cultured, Dazed, i-D, Interview, T Magazine, The New York

Times, Vice, Vogue and The Wall Street Journal.

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Artwork: ‘Just the Two of Us‘, 2019, Archival Inkjet print on

Photo Rag Baryta, 36 × 24 in | 91.4 × 61 cm, Edition 3/5 + 2AP.

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#19

DANIEL PAUL


Daniel Paul is a Czech sculptor and designer, a multidisciplinary

artist working across all art technologies from

painting to 3D printing. He is known for his ethically engaged

figurative works, which often deal with the crisis of

man in the contemporary world. The decadent content

and realistic form of his work are unique in the Czech artistic

environment. The artworks are a means of social

dialogue on existential questions and the meaning of

human action.

“Academically educated sculptor, fascinated by matter

and new technologies, I like designing efficient procedures

while keeping the admiration of the classic

figurative sculpture art that I'm inspired by the most,

just as by nature. The cardinal source of inspiration for

the Waste collection is the decomposition of life forms,

especially dead animals, that I have encountered during

my nature walks. It led me to reflect on the topic

of waste which takes many forms. Some of it makes

harm and destroy, the others may have a life-giving

form due to the process of decay and point to the cycle

of transformation necessary to sustain life.”

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Artwork: ‘GOAT‘, mixed media sculpture, part of the WASTE

2020 collection, 28 × 20 × 10 cm.

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Artwork: ‘Violet Frontier‘, 80 x 60 x 4 cm, acrylic and spray

paint on canvas.

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#20

DANIEL FREAKER

Daniel Freaker lives and works in Portsmouth, U.K. While

studying at University he explored the painterly qualities

of print, video, film and photography. He now concentrates

on painting, where it is possible to see the influences

of previous interests on the paintings in terms of cinematic

composition and subjects. Freaker’s work is often

reminiscent of film scenes and fragments of a broader

narrative, which the viewer can interpret.

His work is informed by contemporaries such as Doig,

Tuymans, and Armitage, sitting between the abstract

and figurative spaces where the way paint media is

applied is equally as important as the image itself. The

subjects are mostly individuals, couples, or groups of

people in order to provoke thoughts of relationships or

isolation. The scenes remind the audience of something

they can empathize with and the techniques and colour

palette bring feelings of sentiment and longing with

a contemporary twist of warmth and radiance. While

many elements are true to reality and show traditional

processes, some distortions, exaggerate the emotional

significance of the moment: connection, loss, vulnerability,

or loneliness. This juxtaposition between vibrance

and darkness is what makes it truly memorable.

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DASHA MINKINA

Dasha Minkina is an artist based in Germany whose

paintings have been exhibited nationally and in the

United States. She describes her distinctive portaits as

"consciously turning inwards". Employing "the bridge of

empathy", Minkina invites viewers into a wordless dialogue,

creating a space for reflection and emotion. Her figurative

and expressionist compositions are most often

created with oils on canvas.

“My personal path is part of my creative process. I emigrated

to Germany in the early 1990s as a teenager.

From this point on, return, reflection, and the search

for the self from both my personal and artistic focus. I

painterly explore the ideas of identity and emotion, their

demarcation and interaction, as well as the interaction

between image and viewer. My portraits turn inwards.

Over the bridge of empathy, they involve the viewer in

an individual, wordless dialogue and thus create areas

for reflection and space for emotion. My pictures, therefore,

remain deliberately “unfinished”, they want the

viewer to complete the story.”

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Artwork: No description.

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#22

DASHA PEARS


Dasha Pears is an award-winning artist, currently based

in Helsinki, Finland. Dasha's uncanny laconic art pieces are

focused on the self-discovery and our inner worlds. Aesthetically

clean and pleasing artworks are like doors to a

surreal universe where any psychological state becomes

beautiful. Dasha uses the instruments of surrealism, minimalism,

color, photography, and digital manipulation to

tell surprising visual stories with a twist. In her stories, she

speaks about the deepest psychological matters, bringing

things that are usually considered unpretty to light,

making them shine with different colors and aesthetically

appealing. This way Dasha's art gives viewers a chance to

be at peace with themselves, providing an almost physically

soothing effect on the human psyche.

“My works are a depiction of psychological and emotional

states, whether existing or desired. So in this sense,

I can’t call them surrealistic, as surrealism is based on

dreams and the unconscious, but rather psychorealistic

or subjectively realistic. I use the instruments of

minimalism, reducing all the clutter, to make my works

look sharper, more straightforward, and to the point. I

want to give my audience a breath of fresh air when

they look away from the messy, unstable, polluted, and

chaotic real world and get into a clean, controlled, and

calm reality, where it’s ok to be yourself. It’s like finding

a psychological or you can say “spiritual” home.”

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Artwork: ‘Half & Half‘, Limited edition artwork on

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ELA MENESCAL

The art of Ela Menescal serves as a playful platform

where the narrative seeks to bring together elements

that are sometimes contradictory but that are tuned in

new senses and directions.

Her work plays with the viewer’s memories of childhood

through metaphors with pop culture icons and images

from her own childhood memories, resulting in a unique

approach, with a touch of humor and irreverence.

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Artwork: ‘Out of reach‘, 2022, Mixed media, collage and print.

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ELIZABETH WITHSTANDLEY


Elisabeth Withstandley is a visual artist who lives in works

in Los Angeles.

“My work is routed in conceptual art, taking the form of

photographic series, film, video, and installations that

explore contemporary culture through a loose narrative

structure. The works question individuality, personal

identity, morality, and purpose of life, while presenting

a portrait of a person, a group of people, a specific culture

or a location. I'm interested in providing the viewer with

an immersive experience that causes them to raise

questions. What is it like to be an individual? What is it

like to be someone else? Does the identity of a place,

person, or culture define it? My studio practice involves

research and testing that I use when creating my installations

often times developing pieces that all come

together as a whole when installed. I’m interested in leaving

the viewer with questions relating to uniqueness while

planting seeds for the viewer to think about one's place

in life and the larger universe.”

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Artwork: ‘Getaway‘, 10-channel HD video installation, 2022.

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ELLIOTT MICKLEBURGH


“In a world driven by constant exposure to images and

the arrays of communications media that write, store,

and distribute this information, it is easy to become afflicted

by the idea that there is nothing around us, no

thought or object, that cannot be sensibly expressed

through the technologies of convenience that rest under

our fingertips and extend all the way to the horizon of the

visual field. This is a sort of contemporary reformation to

the philosophical aphorism stating that the boundaries

of the world are constructed by the limits of human language

and thought.

Rather than assuming that visual information is regulated

via communication into a perpetual state of accessibility,

Mickleburgh's work is invested in creating accounts of

those images that are not fully manifested in the cogent

universes of the visible and the thinkable. In 1971, for instance,

Bas Jan Ader filmed himself crying but became

so besieged by his melancholy that his tears were left

unexplained. Likewise, the very opportunity to divulge information

through the creation of art is simultaneously

rendered in these works as an opportunity to conceal

and transform something else”.

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Artwork: ‘XX.XX.XX (Choreographic Reference for Jewellery

Advert)‘, 2021, Archival inkjet print, 16.5 x 23.4 in.

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Artwork: ‘No one’s beingness‘, 2022, Acrylic, spray paint,

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ERIK MINTER

Erik Minter (born 1979 in District of Columbia) is currently

based in New Jersey. Minter known for his use of vibrant

color combinations that weave between otherworldly

graphical shapes and fluid splashes, combines abstraction

with surreal figuration as he searches to capture

the emotional feeling of an experience, evocative of dreams

or nostalgia. While the compositions are somewhat

planned out, his approach to painting is improvisational.

Each piece is created with a combination of techniques

which he considers to be more of a “set of tendencies”.

These “tendencies” involve spraying, pouring, gesturing

marks and masking in forms by “drawing” with tape.

'Hyper-color neon-esque compositional elements exploit

the viewer’s desire to understand, to recognize, and to

ground the assumptions ambiguous visual cues. These

painterly effects push and pull us through the explosions,

smears, breaks, drips and cosmic galaxies, proving

to be linear escorts where we can make sense of

the abstract merits.' Gabriel Diego Delgado

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EZEKIEL WONG KEL WIN


Ezekiel Wong Kel Win (B. 1989, Singapore) holds a Master’s

Degree in Art Education from Nanyang Technological

University, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts (Honours)

from Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore- Goldsmiths,

University of London.

Known for his sardonic wit and humor, Wong’s artworks

contain elements of satire that highlight societal conflicts,

geopolitical issues, and his own personal confrontations.

Challenging the world through his imagination, he

frequently employs a comical approach to articulate his

paradigms of current topics. Wong has exhibited locally

with recent shows at Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay

(2017), The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) Singapore

(2017), iPreciation Gallery (2016) and Mizuma Gallery

(2016); and internationally, with exhibitions at Bienal do

Douro, Portugal (2018), Sabanci University, Turkey (2010),

the Singapore Printmaking Society 29th Annual Exhibition

(2009), and the Pocket Films Festival, Japan (2007).

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Artwork: ‘The Merlion Dance‘, installation view, North-South

Line & East-West Line, SMRT, 18 Jan - 14 Feb 2021.

Photo: National Gallery Singapore.

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Artwork: ‘The Message‘, 2021. 100x100 cm, oil and acrylic

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FARHAD NIKFAM

Farhad Nikfam (b. 1987) is an Iranian-Zzeri painter living

& working in Baku, Azerbaijan. Raised at the crossroads

of post-soviet, south caucasian, and Persian cultures

yet influenced by a romanticized image of the Western

world of the 90s and 2000s, the artist discovers and

explores new worlds, where all of these coexist.

Farhad Nikfam’s paintings depict the space where the

artist managed to unite the objective reality and his

fantasies - whether it be his own design of a beer bottle

he would prefer to drink from or of an armchair he would

like to sit on, or fanciful scenarios where the only portal

for a mermaid to escape an apartment building could

be a toilet bowl. Inspired by the freedom of primitivism,

as well as by industrial design (his first field of studies),

Farhad creates new forms of daily life - angular and

naive at the same time. The eye-catching sharpness

and directness of the lines are combined with the straightforward

childlike perception, love for bright colors,

and non-ergonomic technology objects from the 90s.

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FELIX KINDELÁN


In Felix Kindelán's paintings, coarse brushstrokes and

shapes are contrasted with clear edges, impasto color

areas, and soft color gradients. The alternating structure

creates the impression of a strong three-dimensional

depth, which gives the figures a vivid plasticity. Occasionally,

parts of the figures float above artificially created

picture frames, creating optical illusions in the style of

Trompe-l'œil. This design principle irritates and fascinates

at the same time.

“My works are about personal and interpersonal emotional

worlds, implemented in a mix of contemporary figuration,

abstractions, and mannerist pictorial spaces. The

harmoniously balanced color compositions allow the

trained graphic designer to shine through. The dynamic

interweaving of figures into a mass is more reminiscent

of the structure of graffiti, where letters playfully fuse together.

It is about nothing less than the search for the

components of my personality and worlds of experience.

My works are questions to myself to be discussed. Answers

to the questions posed lead to further questions in

further paintings. With the help of painting, I work on myself

and at the same time offer the viewer the opportunity

for self-reflection.”

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Artwork: ‘Prototyp Beinstudie‘, 2022, 50 x 70 cm,

oil and pigments on canvas.

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FEWOCIOUS


Now living in New York, FEWOCiOUS first started creating

art at 13 in his hometown of Las Vegas. His foray into digital

art was born as a refuge and escape for the young transgender

artist. FEWOCiOUS sold his first painting at 17, and

within a year of that, was able to move to his dream city of

Seattle to continue creating, through a series of successful

NFT drops.In June of 2021, he hosted a groundbreaking

and record breaking auction with Christie’s Auction House

in celebration of “Pride Month” which sold for $2.16mm. In

March of 2021, he collaborated with RTFKT, the next-gen

sneaker and collectible creators who merges the realities

of fashion and gaming. In the auction each NFT came with

a real-world pair of shoes or other fashion pieces, generating

over $3mm in sales within seven minutes. Additionally,

FEWOCiOUS' drop “Fabricated Fairytales” was released

in early 2021 in collaboration with best friends parrott_ism,

odious and Jonathan Wolfe.

He was featured in Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Day Sale

in London, auctioning off his first ever life-sized physical

sculpture of a handmade and hand-painted suit encased

in an acrylic box. The sculpture was the genesis piece

from the FEWO WORLD metaverse fashion and generative

customizable character drop and sold for $2.85mm.

FEWOCiOUS has amassed nearly $50mm in sales for his

art thus far, solidifying his place among the most popular

NFT artists today and arguably making him one of the

most influential artists of this generation.

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FRANCISCO

GONZALEZ CAMACHO

Francisco Gonzalez Camacho (b. 1990) is a Spanish

photographer based in Helsinki. His practice can be

denominated as contemporary social documentary

photography which focuses on small stories and themes

such as family and immigration. He often explores

ideas such as displacement, the landscape as a coping

strategy, and nature as a transcendental space.

“Challenging the restless feeling of not belonging,

otherness and the cultural constraints, the landscape

has offered me a cathartic relief, shaping a renewed

sense of connectedness with nature. Making both real

and imaginary landscapes, I dissolve space and time,

creating an interruption, an absence, giving a feeling of

being elsewhere. Reality is suspended, reminding us we

are just a small part of nature, united with it.”

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GULSAH BAYRAK

Gulsah AYLA Bayrak is an artist based in Belgium. She

grew up in both the Turkish and Belgian cultures. This

clash made her a bridge between east and west. The

artist focuses on Individual experience, cultural diaspora,

and the role of society in her life.

Artwork: ‘Bloody Hamam‘;

Artwork (following pages): ‘The Daughter of Rumi‘.

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Artwork: ‘Heaven Lies Beneath The Feet of Your Mother’,

2020, Ballpoint and coloured felt pens, 84X59cm.

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HABIB HAJALLIE

Habib Hajallie (b.1995) is an elected member of The

Royal Society of British Artists. He looks to empower

often marginalised minorities through the exploration

of identity within his ballpoint pen portraiture. Confronting

socio-political issues within his drawings acts as

a catalyst for a discourse regarding the perception of

various demographics as being of lesser humanistic

value. Specifically, with the disenfranchised often being

undermined by mainstream media; somewhat paradoxically

reflecting an archaic hierarchy of status, similar

to colonial ideologies.

Though born in Southeast London, Hajallie's works are

Informed by his Sierra Leonean and Lebanese heritage.

He is conscious of representing figures that have historically

been conspicuously omitted from traditional

British portraiture. Calling upon anecdotal references

to portray scenes that are occasionally quasi-surrealist

representations, the drawings look to confront lingering

ethnocentrisms that are still embedded within modern

western society.

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HANNAH GULLAND


Hannah Bang was born in 1998 in South Korea and

currently lives in Atlanta, GA, United States. She works

across a diverse range of media, from painting, performance,

installation, fiber art, and video, to explore and

present an understanding of human consciousness.

Hannah has exhibited her work of at the Ceder House

Gallery in Savannah; an open studio in Lacoste; the Atlanta

Art forum; an Illustration fair in Busan, and Suwon

in South Korea. She curated a virtual group exhibition.

Outside of her studio practice, she highlights and records

emerging artists around her; through the web

magazine HADA.

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Artwork: ‘Make a Safe Space‘, 2022, Digital, Performance,

Oil on canvas, 48 x 36 inch.

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HANNAH GULLAND


Hannah was born in Edinburgh where she studied at

Edinburgh College and received a foundation diploma

in art and design. She then moved to Glasgow to study

Painting and Printmaking at the Glasgow School of Art,

where she has just graduated.

Her practice considers the infinity of outer space through

a poetic lens, reflecting the inner depths of our being

“each star, a moment gazing back at us through the

twinkling eyes of unity” Her process is an extension of

unity through paint and pixels. Hannah invites us to

Imagine the cinema; transient, mythical, romantic -

“this is the space I create from”. As she blends colors

onto the surface, she mixes melodies between dreaming

and being, her work explores the space between

the physical and the spiritual worlds.

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Artwork: ‘Cocco bello‘, oil on canvas, 270cm x 150cm.

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Artwork: ‘Untitled‘, 2019, Nickel-plated steel, silicone,

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HANNAH LEVY

Hannah Levy defamiliarises commonplace objects by

warping or exaggerating their formal properties. Levy’s

visual vocabulary includes medical equipment, gymnastic

devices, safety bars, vegetables, pastries, and

pearls. Her objects provoke repulsion and attraction to

a humorous extreme. While her linear, metallic forms

conjure associations with home or office furnishings,

their skin-like sheaths confuse the separation between

living and dead, animal and prosthetic. Indebted to the

Surrealist fascination with the uncanny and the abject,

her work takes an ambivalent view on the past century’s

material culture. For The Milk of Dreams, Levy realises

three new sculptures: a drooping sac of slumped silicon

balanced on four polished metal arthropod-like legs;

a thin membrane of silicone stretched over a winged

steel structure that is reminiscent of a bat’s wing or a

tent; and a over-sized marble facsimile of a peach pit, a

material used in craft traditions that contains surprising

levels of the poison cyanide. Each takes an ambiguous

position between functional furniture and object of

aesthetic contemplation, giving corporeal form to the

cycles of production, consumption, and disposal that

underlie contemporary life.

Ian Wallace

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Artwork: ‘Ápol és Eltakar‘, 200 x 300 cm,

Acrylic on canvas, 2022.

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IMOLA NELLI SZILÁGYI

Szilágyi Imola Nelli, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1998.

Graduate of Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan,

Italy, through her artwork she digests the depths of modern

urban living with surrealistic scenes. Given an interest

in the phenomenon of architecture, she debates

how men-made structures do justice to what it means

to be human, and what it's like to be alive. Evolution tailored

humanity for a life in nature, but it does not live in it

anymore. How do we experience life in an environment

where factory-made houses, self-repeating streets

and temporary homes host us?

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JACK COULTER


Recognized as one of the most popular abstract painters

emerging today by The Financial Times, Jack Coulter’s

tenacity and bold approach in the art world has

garnered him widespread collaborations and a legion

of notable collectors in popular culture. In 2021 Coulter

was included in the prestigious Forbes ‘30 Under 30’ list

for Art & Culture.

Coulter has synaesthesia, a neurological condition which

has had a profound effect on his work, other well-known

synesthete artists include David Hockney, Vincent

van Gogh and Joan Mitchell. In an interview with The

Independent, Coulter's earliest memories of this date

back to childhood, where he recalled the sound of his

own heartbeat resonating pulses of colour. Throughout

his teenage years he would frequently paint while listening

to jazz musicians such as Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie

and Billie Holiday, translating the colours of the

sounds onto canvas, with the aural timbres of the music

inspiring the pace and motion of his paint strokes. The

present work takes its inspiration from Belinda Carlisle’s

classic hit from 1987 by the same title.

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Artwork: ‘Heaven Is A Place On Earth‘, 2021, oil, household

paint, and acrylic on canvas, 152.5 by 122cm.

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JAMES TAPSCOTT


As a contemporary land artist I work primarily outdoors,

in the public realm, though often quite remote. My

works are site specific, even site-determined and fuse

simple materials and aesthetics with localized natural

phenomena and light. Often I will create an installation

and adapt it to a number of sites, creating subtly (sometimes

profoundly) different experiences. I work in a

reductive way – eliminating unnecessary visual material

and aesthetic baggage to communicate a sense of the

sublime as directly as possible. The experiences of my

work are felt as much as they are observed and remind

us how our modes of perception are merely a choice.

I use a wide variety of materials and methods to create

my works, as the creative process changes between

projects. The site determines the idea, the idea then determines

the materials and methodology. For the past

few years my materials have become ever more soft,

none mores-o than light, which I pair with water and

wind to explore their relationship and how the experience

of these things can be more than just visual. I try to

create bodily experiences, stimulating all senses. As this

approach tends to produce more ephemeral works that

are best temporary, I bridge this approach with a strong

architectural sensibility and years of experience working

with more robust building materials to create permanent

public works. This synergy of natural aesthetics and

a heightened sensitivity of space is my niche.

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Artwork: ‘Penumbra‘, 2022, 37.5 x 37.5 x 35cm, Resin,

pigment, acrylic.

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JIAYU LIU


Jiayu Liu was is a visual artist who lives and works in Beijing

and London. Known for her immersive and evocative

media installations she holds an MA from the Royal

College of Art.

Jiayu's artwork often recreates and augments the natural

world and focuses on relationships between humans,

nature, and the lived environment, exploring

human behavior and response. Under the constantly

updated technology, using different media, material,

and digital technologies, her installations become immersive

portals through which one can be transported

in between the superimposition of real and virtual, physical

and digital, material and immaterial worlds. Using

live and static streams of data and digital technologies,

her installations enable new communication nodes

with audiences. The audience's behavioral response

and emotional resonance are aroused through spatial

collage and displacement, making her creation repeatedly

"re-created" by audiences.

She has exhibited internationally in the museums and

festivals, including the V&A in London, K11 Art Space in

Hong Kong, He Xiangning Museum, and Guan Shanyue

Museum in Shenzhen, CAFA Museum, Times Museum,

Today Art Museum and Riverside Museum in Beijing,

Power Long Museum and OCAT in Shanghai, London

Design Festival, Kinetica Art Fair London, London Fashion

Week, Chengdu Biennial Beijing Media Art Biennial and

Guangzhou Triennial.

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deep machine learning and AI technology were used to

formulate several sets of virtual, dynamic 3D graphs based

on plenty of China’s terrain data. Next, 10,000 Chinese

ink-and-wash paintings were learned and trained on the

surface of the virtual domain through AI technology.

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JOHAN DECKMANN


Johan Deckmann is a Copenhagen-based artist, practicing

psychotherapist and author, whose works examine

the complications of life through witty one-liners painted

on the covers of fictional “self-help” books. These book

titles, though often filled with scathing satire and humour,

tackle life’s biggest questions, fears, and absurdities.

Recognizing the power of language in both therapy and

art, Deckmann successfully forms simple phrases that

compress information, feelings or fantasies into an essence,

and a truth that has an effect that is very similar

to therapy. “The right words can be like good medicine,”

Deckmann shares.

One of the most powerful aspects of Deckmann’s works

is that every reader can relate to at least one them on a

highly personal level, regardless of what cultural background,

gender or age group. Titles such as “How to

disappoint and just keep disappointing – Disappointment

made easy” can resonate with anyone, but instead

of remaining sinister, the work is made humorous by

using the same language that you might find on a cook

book or instruction kit. “How to burn out instead of fade

away” might be most fitting for people that live in big

cities under pressure, and, perhaps: “How to keep doing

the same old mistakes and expect a different result”

could be considered the most universally human of all

one-liners.

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Artwork: ‘The Cycle‘, 2018, Acrylic on book, 11 2/5 × 8 7/10 in

| 29 × 22 cm.

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JOHN YUYI

John Yuyi is a Taiwanese visual artist based in New York

City. The internet and social media form both the premise

and platform for her creative work, which explores themes

of life and the present moment as revealed by these media.

In her work, she reflects on her own emotions, her bipolar

disorder, the sense of a modern society as observed

on a daily basis and the emotions of others. She is best

known for her works in the medium of temporary tattoos.

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Artwork: ‘Half and Half‘, 2017, Archival Pigment Print,

47 1/5 × 35 2/5 in | 120 × 90 cm.

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JULS GABS


Juls Gabs is a London based artist with a multidisciplinary

approach that includes Painting, Augmented Reality, Social

Media art, and NFT.

Her practice is working toward Celebrating Diversity &

Telling the story of migration. Creating paintings with

hidden QR codes that when you scan them transport

you to a AR deeper version of the painting's concept. The

paintings propose alternative urban landscapes that

coexist with nature, raising awareness of the impact of

climate change and taking action to support carbon reduction.

By merging The Digital and Physical, the artist

demands the progress we all imagine and already own.

She aims to provide the most accessible experiences for

the audience. She introduces the paintings into everyday

Apps to provide an immersive experience of her

imagery and to stretch the concepts. She portraits you:

Your WhatsApp profile, your Netflix preferences, your

Amazon recommendations, She uses it all. The classic

oil+linen portrait is now substituted by algorithms in accounts.

Every Netflix query, Google search and Pinterest

save is your portrait. And she paints you with all of them.

She imagines the Paintings invading streets, democratising

the space and decolonising the roads with digital.

The aim is to connect society using paintings and collectively

create limitless dialogues.

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Artwork: ‘Ninfas' Secrets‘, 2022, digital painting with QR

Code to virtual reality painting on Hahnemühle paper,

150x112.5cm.

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Artwork: ‘Prototype 0022‘, 2022. By Zhang & Junyu Luo,

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JUNYU LUO

Junyu Luo, a digital artist who graduated from Tongji

University in 2020 with a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical

Design and Manufacture and Automation, and

is currently studying Computational Art at Goldsmiths

College, University of London. His recent works are mostly

installations and digitally programmed images. He

is passionate about exploring the boundaries of engineering

science and computer technology as an artistic

language of expression, as well as the aesthetic practice

of computing everything.

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KEVIN EASON

Kevin Eason (b. 1978, Rustington, GB) is a Swiss-based

British artist. Eason produces work in a variety of media

including photography, painting, film, drawing, text,

sound, and electronic media. The artist has cited a diverse

range of influences and sources, including news

stories from the internet, satellite imagery, data streams,

screen gazing, modern accelerators, and environmental

concerns. Eason’s artistic practice is often

technically complex, and at times unconventional. His

artworks have been described as thought-provoking,

time-honored, speculative, and emotionally engaging.

“I sense and interpret givens pertaining to natural and

human-made environments. There is a sincere want of

intimacy, for a profound substrate to be shared, for us to

look and see without too much human bias, for art to be

raw content and sublime witness rather than hype and

trend, for contradictions to be exposed, for art to state

a position, to reject and question more than accept, to

filter out, to move forth. Through art, my intention is to

reach, connect, share, converse, imagine, sculpt, morph,

transmit, disseminate, and manifest change.”

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KHARI TURNER

Khari Turner’s paintings present vivid renderings of the

mouths, eyes, and hands of Black subjects. Fluid drips of

paint, which obscure or accentuate his disjunct figures,

suggest the various mythological and historical roles

that bodies of water have played in the Black experience.

Turner creates these hybrid figurative/abstract works

using water he collects from oceans, rivers, and other

bodies of water with a strong connection to Black history,

which he mixes with pigments. Kari’s choice of solvent,

combined with the muscular brushwork through which

his rich planes of swirling color and dynamic linework

take form, affords his paintings their intensity and impact.

Turner earned his MFA at Columbia University and

has exhibited in New York and Los Angeles.

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Artwork: ‘Red Tides Moon Glow‘, 2020, Epson Somerset

Velvet 255 GSM, 24 × 18 in | 61 × 45.7 cm, Edition of 25.

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Artwork: ‘Aerial Basketball Painting; Move in Power, Black

and Free, Wild Flowers will Grow (Yoruba 1)‘, 2021, Acrylic

on birch ply, 119 7/10 × 59 4/5 × 11 4/5 in | 304 × 152 × 30 cm.

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LAKWENA MACIWER

Bright neon colors and positive affirmations lure viewers

to Lakwena Maciver’s graphic text-based murals and

panel paintings.

Maciver first attracted attention with her I Remember

Paradise mural for the 2013 Wynwood Walls festival in

Miami—which coincided with Miami Art Basel. She has

since created other public works around the U.K., where

she is based, at locations such as Tate Britain and the

Southbank Centre. Maciver sometimes embellishes her

hand-painted words with elements like three-dimensional

block letters and sequins, or gilded lettering as in

Your love keeps lifting me higher (2020). She holds a BA

in graphic design from the London College of Communications,

and looks to Barbara Kruger, illuminated manuscripts,

and her Ugandan heritage for visual inspiration.

Maciver enjoys making work that is publicly accessible,

using materials like cardboard templates, masking tape,

and string to produce her hard-edged patterns.

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LE THAI HUYEN CHAU

With an academic background in International Communication

and Diplomacy from Diplomatic Academy

of Vietnam and no formal art training whatsoever, Chau

Le Thai Huyen is not your average artist in more ways

than one. Equipped with nothing more than an iPad

Pro, Apple Pencil and Sketchbook, this emerging digital

painter who was born and raised in Hanoi describes her

style as “impulsive and like a naive child with contrasting

and harmonious colors and bold composition.” Her

subject matter is intimate with her works seen as a raw

reflection of her journey through the different stages of

growth and emotions felt within scenes of her everyday

life as a citizen of Vietnam.

Though only a few years into her journey as an artist,

Chau Le has already been making colorful waves both

inside Vietnam and abroad.

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Artwork: ‘Make urself at home‘, 2022, Giclée Print, Giclee

print on archival paper, Edition of 5. Dimensions: 145.5cm

(H) x 106cm (W) x 0.1cm (D) / 57.3" (H) x 41.7" (W) x 0.04" (D).

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LOUISA CLEMENT


Within her artistic work, Louisa Clement is interested

in the human body. Though sexual freedom is present

in her ‚body fallacy' series, her exploration transcends

that. The body is documented in intense detail, like the

topography of a landscape, evading the cultural weight

so often placed on bodies, especially women's bodies.

We also see what at first appears to be the absence of

the body in Clement's 'Mirror' series. However, through

this aesthetically appealing, mirrored surface, we see

ourselves and the gallery space, warped by the will of

the artist.

Louisa Clement (*1987) lives and works in Bonn. She studied

at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe and

at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where she was a master

student of Prof. Andreas Gursky. In 2019, she received

the Villa Aurora Scholarship, she was awarded the EHF

2010 Scholarship of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stfitung e.V. in

2017 and was awarded the Prize for Young Artists* of the

State of North Rhine-Westphalia in 2016. She has participated

in numerous exhibitions in Germany and abroad,

including among others at the Ludwig Forum Aachen, the

Sprengel Museum Hannover, the Kunst Raum Riehen in

Basel, the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne, the Kunstsammlung

NRW and the Kunsthalle Gießen. Text courtesy

Galerie Eigen + Art.

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Artwork: ‘Body fallacy 20‘, 2021, Inkjet print, 200 × 160 cm,

Edition of 5 + 2AP.

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Artwork: ‘Cradle for heavy souls‘, 2022, Installation made

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LUCREZIA COSTA

Lucrezia Costa (b.1996) is an Italian visual artist living

and working between Milan and Casalpusterlengo. She

attended LABA in Brescia and obtained her bachelor's

degree in photography with a dissertation outlined with

the help of mentor Giovanni Gastel. Costa then moved

on to her master's in Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies

at NABA, Milan, where Lucrezia deepened her knowledge

and cultivated her interest in the visual arts. She took part

in various exhibitions in Italy and the UK while conceiving

and developing a couple of performances commissioned

by MUDEC, Milan. She is one of the artists in residency

at ViaFarini, Milan, whilst showcasing her work at "Artefici

del Nostro tempo - The milk of dreams", Venice, as one of

the selected finalists of the group show.

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LUNYU FU


Lunyu Fu (1996-), born in Beijing, currently lives in London.

The CEO of PupPeeGallery; the head of QQ Paradise.

“All of my works talk about love. Art is a special gift I can

give to someone I love. It might be a gown, a tree, or an

action in vain. If I cannot help you change the fact, may

I build a paradise in your mind? With an environmental

design background, the spatial narrative is always involved

in my works. For the forms of creation, I paint, print,

plant, and take photos and videos... Never know what

I am going to try the next time. As the CEO of PupPee-

Gallery, my business includes Recycle and Recreation of

dog urine (image), Performance Management, Pre-marital

Credit Investigation, Break-up Restoration, and

other related businesses for large/medium/small dogs.”

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Artwork: ‘Song of The Parting Son‘, 2022, mixed media

sculpture, textile.

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MANUEL GARDINA


Manuel Darina (b.1990, Italy, lives

and works in Brescia) focuses on the

inquiry into the new media, aimed at

revisiting and digitally summarizing

the surrounding world, analyzing(it)

with the PC’s eye, and translating the

spontaneousness into programmed

languages of codes and technology,

into a wider reflection on the boundary

between natural and artificial.

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Artwork: ‘Shomei ( 署名 ) - Dawn Lily‘,

video (MP4), 2400x1440, 1/1 NFT.

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MARGAUX WALTER

Margeaux Walter is a fine art and editorial photographer

dedicated to building a layered scene whether it’s in a

studio or a temporary site-specific installation in the environment.

She received her MFA from Hunter College

in 2014 and her BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts

in 2006. She was awarded an ADC cube in 2022 for her

NYTimes Work Friend series and has received multiple

honors from the Magenta Foundation Flash Forward, HeadOn

Photo Festival, Photolucida, Prix de la Photographie

Paris, International Photography Awards, The Julia Margaret

Cameron Award, and other organizations. She has

been awarded artist-in-residence programs at Montalvo

Arts Center, MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Marble House

Project, VCCA, JTHAR, Red Gate Gallery in Beijing and

BigCi in Bilpin, Australia (Environmental award). In 2020

she was the recipient of the Sony Alpha Female Award

(2020). She is represented by Winston Wachter Fine Art in

NY / Seattle, and Foto Relevance in Houston, TX, and has

participated in dozens of exhibitions at institutions such

as MOCA in Los Angeles, CA, Hunterdon Art Museum in

Clinton, NJ, The Center for Photography in Woodstock, NY,

The Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, OH,

Sonoma County Museum in Santa Rosa, CA, Tacoma Art

Museum in Tacoma, WA, and the Griffin Museum of Photography

in Winchester, MA. Her work has been featured

in publications including The New York Times, New York

Post, Seattle Times, Boston Globe, Courrier International,

and Blouin Art Info.

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MARIA LYSENKO

Maria Lysenko is a visual artist born in Ufa, Russia, who

lives and works in London, UK.

“My latest furniture series are reflecting on the experience

I had coming out of the depressive episode and the transformations

of my appearance I had to undergo in order

to accept myself and my psychological state. Through

merging synthetic beauty materials like artificial hair and

nail extensions with natural materials that can be shaped

by hand (clay, fabric, papier-mâché) I explore ways an

appearance can change the perception of the object.”

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Artwork: ‘Blondie‘, wood, synthetic hair, 2022.

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MARIA MYASNIKOVA

Maria Myasnikova (b. 1997) is a Russian born artist who

lives and works in Milan. She holds a BA in Fine Art (Painting)

from City and Guilds of London Art School.

‘I work primarily with oil paint, spray paint, wood and

found objects creating what I call Abstract Sculptural

Assemblages. Within every Assemblage, I try to reinvent

my use of mediums and practice. I work with what surrounds

me: nature and found objects - these can be

simple things like broken glass, seasonal flowers, tools

like nails and fishing lines that are usually used to hold

objects together; in my artworks, they keep things together

metaphorically. I draw inspiration from everyday

life to engage in abstract thinking as I attempt to realise

the new artwork. The concept of every day is crucial

to my practice: things, family, and moods represent the

cosmology of my life. Long-term projects are becoming

more important to me. How can I observe a decaying

plant throughout the year? How is the surface of the primed

wood changing? How can I work in the long run?

The present and every day contain elements of paradise,

which is what my research revolves around.’

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Artwork: ‘Abstract Sculptural Assemblage in Hawaiian

Ocean Blue and Dark Turquoise (Ways of Comprehension

/ Blue Nymph G)‘, oil paint, nails and fishing line on

wood, 80 x 142 cm, 2022.

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Artwork: ‘I hope when this chapter is done I will be able to

say I learned something‘, @ Arcade, London (UK), 2020.

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MARIJKE DE ROOVER

Marijke De Roover (1990, BE) is a performance and visual

artist. She lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. De Roover

holds a Bachelor and Master in Fine Arts from KASK School

of Arts, Ghent (BE) where she was nominated for the Start

Point Prize, Prague (CZ). In 2021 De Roover had her first

solo exhibition in the Netherlands at Museum de Pont in

Tilburg.

De Roover shows a wide variety of ideas, such as coupling

practices (e.g., dating, marriage, and heartbreak)

that secure the intersection of several consequential social

hierarchies including gender, class, sexual orientation

and institutional power in her work. Although it may seem

so, De Roover’s work is rarely about her personal life. On

the contrary – because the artist, throughout her practice,

has constantly been adopting new disguises, it is not

at all clear who Marijke De Roover really is. In this way

she sheds light on an important tendency that, with the

rise of social media, has had a far-reaching impact on

the behavior and perception of the individual. In a world

where everything revolves around performance and the

construction of a digital façade, however, failure is never

far off. The glorification of failure runs like a red thread

throughout De Roover’s work.

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MEICHEN LU


Meichen Lu obtained her master's degree in 2018, and

she is now enrolled in the third year of her Ph.D. program

at UAL. Meichen Lu’s practice is centered on the

vulva as a character. In her series work from 2020-2022,

Meichen portrays her vulva with symbolic representations

and narrates her menstrual experience of different

ages. According to Freud (1955), men can possess an

uncanny (unheimlich) sensation when they encounter

female genital parts. However, as he continues, this

unheimlich place is also the gateway to the Heim of all

human beings, the womb, the region where everyone

once inhabited.

By portraying the vulva, arguably the taboo in most of

the realms, as an active character, Meichen explores

the abjection theory proposed by Julia Kristeva to amplify

the discussion of the unstable boundary between

'the self' and 'the other'. Meanwhile, providing individuals

with the uncanny sense of the Freudian scenario,

calling into question the capability of abstraction as a

means of expressing the vulva’s agency and generating

a loud dialogue between the individual and the intimate

part and experience of one’s body.

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Artwork: ‘Hortus Conclusus for A Woman‘, 2022, chinese watercolour,

oil pastel, size variable, “Secret Heim” exhibition.

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MELANIE GEYER

Melanie Geyer is a young visual artist from Austria, who

lives and works in Vienna. Emotional compositions, realistic,

and powerful but with very fine lines painted people

and abstract objects characterize her current works.

Melanie Geyer's works touch, and generate a fascinating

combination of childlike lightness and melancholy.

Awaking emotions that slumber within all of us. Geyer

mostly uses oil colors or pastels to create artworks that

hold up a mirror for the people who look at it.

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Artwork: ‘June‘, 2021, 120x150 cm, oil painting on canvas.

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MICHELE BAZZOLI

Michele Bazzoli (b. 1996, IT) is an Italian visual artist currently

based between Amsterdam and Milan. After graduating in

Painting from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, he earned

a Master’s degree in Visual Arts & Ecology Futures at the

Master Institute of Visual Cultures in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL.

“My artistic research develops through a heterogeneous

variety of media, from sculpture to installation, drawing to

written text, and it investigates the relationship between

human and nature within the anthropocentric vision of

the Western world. How do we relate to the current environmental

crisis as individuals? In what ways are we part

of society’s capitalistic systems and what are the effects

of our adherence to its (aesthetic) regimes? In my works,

I try to examine and portray my own entanglement, as an

individual, within the widespread transformations of the

uncertain present I live in. In a process of abstraction from

personal memories and experiences, as well as specific

localized systems, places, and objects; my works develop

through states of ambiguity, hybridity, and ‘in-betweenness’,

where the body and the environment, local and

global dimensions, as well as opposite forces such as

growth and decay, all melt together.

My hope is for my works to function as ‘lenses’ offering the

viewer varied perspectives to look at our human-made

environments and question their own entanglement within

the material realities we are all immersed in today.”

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Artwork: ‘Liminal Unfoldings‘, 2022, Mixed media,

galvanized steel, 93x76x20 cm.

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MIRCEA CIRTOG


“Through my work, I attempt to examine the phenomenon

of Popular culture as a methaphorical interpretation of both

Kitsch and Fashion. This artwork takes a critical view of social,

political, and cultural issues. By using popular themes

such as sexuality, consumerism, and violence, my artworks

reference post-colonial theory and the avant-garde or the

post-modern and left-wing democratic movement as a

form of resistance against the logic of the capitalist market

system. I deconstruct the American dream, fairy tales, and

memes. My artworks demonstrate how life extends beyond

its own subjective limits and often tell a story about the effects

of global cultural interaction over the latter half of the

twenty-first century. It challenges the binaries we continually

reconstruct between Self and Other, between our own ‘cannibal’

and ‘civilized’ selves. By demonstrating the omnipresent

lingering of a ‘corporate world, I do works that can be

seen as self-portraits. Sometimes they appear idiosyncratic

and quirky, at other times, they seem typical by-products of

American superabundance and marketing. My works are

saturated with obviousness, mental inertia, clichés, and bad

jokes. They question the coerciveness that is derived from

the more profound meaning and the superficial aesthetic

appearance of an image. I touch on various overlapping

themes and strategies by parodying mass media by exaggerating

certain formal aspects inherent to our contemporary

society. Several reoccurring subject matters can be

recognized, such as the relation with popular culture and

media, working with repetition, provocation, and the investigation

of the process of expectations. My works often refer

to pop and mass culture. Using written and drawn symbols,

a world where light-heartedness rules and where rules are

undermined is created.”

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Artwork: ‘Portret no.2‘, 50x70 cm, acrylic on canvas.

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MOE LEADY


Moe Leady is an artist currently residing in Kansas City.

Her work focuses on the figure and the interaction

between people, often incorporating an aesthetic representation

of adult content.

“Intimacy and understanding the interaction between

individuals is the current focus of my work. A major factor

in my work is depicting the overlapping of figures.

Acknowledgment of another in a drawing or painting

is something that creates a confrontational dynamic

between figures, it shows a consideration of the other

person existing within the frame. However, to play with

and counteract this dynamic I have removed as many

recognizable features from these figures as possible,

which incites a need to rely on every mark I present. I

make these marks and crop these film stills this way

with the knowledge that the viewer will subconsciously

fill in the rest of the features.

This subconscious action then brings into consideration

the explicit nature of these drawings and where the

line can be drawn between explicit and implicit: what is

shown, what is implied, and what is not there at all. My

goal with my work has always been to leave the viewer

with a lingering thought and to play with the perception

and subsequent conclusions the viewer draws.”

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Artwork: ‘LoverFuckers‘, a series of ten drawings on paper,

2022.

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NADIA MUSMECI

Nadia Musmeci is a visual artist, born in Catania in 1986.

In order to follow her artistic passions, she undertook her

studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Catania, obtaining

a Bachelor's degree in 'Painting' in 2016. Among his most

significant artistic experiences is her participation in the

'19th international competition Scultura da vivere', Peano

Foundation, Cuneo, 2015. Recently, he received an important

award from the MIUR; the 2nd prize in the 'Multimedia

Installations' category, with the group multimedia project:

'Landscapes of the Soul' in the 2015 'Claudio Abbado'

Award National Competition, organized by the Academy

of Fine Arts in Rome.

Her greatest belief is that art leaves each artist free to

multiple creative, interpretative, and expressive possibilities

of the world around him. For this reason, each of us

filters what surrounds us with our own sensitivity and our

own gaze, providing multiple points of view of the same

subject, the same moment, and the same place. In this

sense, photography, according to Nadia Musmeci, contributes

to creating “traces of one's existence”. And it is

precisely with this spirit that the artist has chosen the

project's photographs, in an attempt to provide a multiplicity

of interpretations of Sicily's thousands of cultural,

chromatic, and aesthetic facets.

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NERO COSMOS


Nero Cosmos is an artist, who invites the viewer to see

the world through the eyes of a machine. His work focuses

on ideas of perception and transformation through

Artificial Intelligence and allows him to explore the reciprocal

relationship between humans and machines. Interested

in how consciousness changes in digital space

and affects daily life, Nero Cosmos uses data collection,

machine learning techniques and algorithms through

Generative Adversarial Networks to create images and

videos in a constant state of metamorphosis. Inspired by

the aesthetics of life forms and solid structures reflected

in the digital realm, his artwork combines a large quantity

of image and video-based sources.

Due to the training of the Generative Adversarial Networks

model, the artist loses temporarily control as the algorithm

takes over the creative process. The machine and

the artist are intentionally forced to collaborate and exist

in constant symbiosis. Consequently, the unpredictability

of artificial intelligence generates results influenced

by technology and brain-constructed reality, breaking

the viewer’s perception into a multitude of possibilities.

The more images involved, the more spontaneous the

results. Through visualizations of these outcomes, Nero

Cosmos creates work that mediates between a real and

an abstract world, seemingly creating threads of logical

patterning in the midst of random and chance.

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Artwork: ‘Serendipity‘, expect the unexpected, 24/10/2022,

01.14 pm, BigGAN (Generative Adversarial Networks)

image training model, freeform, mixed media, limited

collection of 1 artwork.

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Artwork: 'Promised Land', 2020, LIMITED EDITION OF 200,

70cm x 100cm (28×40").

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NICK THOMM

Nick Thomm is an Australian Artist living and working

in Los Angeles, known for his large scale, hyper-color

Spectral Paintings and immersive projection installations.

Through his work Thomm explores modern color

systems, abstract image construction, and the merge

of traditional art with technology, resulting in a hypnotic

combination of form and color.

Thomm's work has been exhibited at prominent international

Museums and Galleries, including the ‘New Museum’

in New York, the ‘Moco Museum' in Barcelona, and

‘The National Gallery of Victoria’ in Melbourne. Publicly

commissioned works include the ‘Live’ sites across the

UK during the Olympic Games, and his three story video

wall on Oxford Street, London with W1 Curates. His privately

commissioned pieces notably include a large scale

mural for Miley Cyrus in her Los Angeles home.

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NICOLA TINEO


Nico lives and works in Milan, where he conducted a

fundamental part of his artistic studies at the Academy

of Fine Arts of Brera. He has practiced the profession of

freelance graphic designer in various contexts of the

artistic sector. Nico is also the founding president of the

artistic and cultural association Zona Blu located in Milan.

Graphic Designer, Video Maker, Painter, Designer,

Illustrator, Musician, Sound Designer, Writer, Creative,

Multifaceted Artist.

The artist's expressive poetics focus on a strong communicative

urgency that leads him to reject individualistic and

decadent perspectives and to exalt the public, therapeutic

and collective value of artistic language. In his works, he

creates hybrids halfway between installation and painting,

trying to reinvent a new order for a language that is virtuous

but simplified, shattered, disrupting the concept of

representative painting. He exhibits in various private and

public venues, also collaborating with other artists in the

design and realization of various curatorial projects.

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Artwork: ‘NOT EXIST‘, Spray lettering on Carpet, headphones,

umbrella, feather, 400x400x130 cm.

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NICOLE SANTORO


Nicole Santoro was born in February 1999 in the city of

Salerno. She obtained a diploma in Architecture and Environment

and then moved to Milan to continue her studies.

In 2022, she graduated with a Bachelor's degree in

Painting and Visual Arts at NABA, and in the same year,

she attended the Master's Program in Contemporary Art

Markets at the same academy. During her studies, she

developed an interest in physical matter and how it can

become, through her research, a stimulus for sensory

experiences that confront the viewer with the questions

and contrasting perceptions that the works provoke. Her

focus is therefore on dynamic art that can only come to

life and change over time through viewer activation.

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Artwork: ‘In-Dependence‘, 2022, site-specific installation,

mixture of sugar composites.

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NIKE OSSLER

Melanie Geyer is a young visual artist from Austria, who

lives and works in Vienna. Emotional compositions, realistic,

and powerful but with very fine lines painted people

and abstract objects characterize her current works.

Melanie Geyer's works touch, and generate a fascinating

combination of childlike lightness and melancholy.

Awaking emotions that slumber within all of us. Geyer

mostly uses oil colors or pastels to create artworks that

hold up a mirror for the people who look at it.

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Artwork: ‘June‘, 2021, 120x150 cm, oil painting on canvas.

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NIKO KAPA


Niko Kapa is an award-winning artist, architect, and researcher.

The essence of his work lies in the exploration of

emotion and identity. Niko’s work has been exhibited internationally

and featured in Biennials and important institutions

around the world as well as private collections.

Recently his ‘Grid’ series has been purchased in Dubai for

660,000$ ranking him among the highest-paid artists in

the Middle East’s art market.

Niko examines how artworks operate as representation

means charged with introspective qualities, integrating

character refractions while being particularly focused on

the concept of transformation. The substance produced

by the artist's body is combined with established sculptural

and architectural materials, transforming corporeal

presence into artworks expressing the human condition.

Gravitated toward existentialism, he reinvents traditional

techniques instilling his own body as a way to include

the creator’s consciousness, while reflecting on notions

of purpose and value.

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Artwork: ‘Dilution‘, 2017, oil on canvas, 245 x 390 cm.

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NINA SUMARAC


Nina Sumarac (b.1972, Belgrade) is a multidisciplinary

visual artist based in Cyprus, with a background in fine

art, painting, and mechanical engineering.

Her work questions the very nature of daily global and

bio-political narratives which form the fabric of our

consciousness and, in a sense, are the revisitation of

past experiences. By articulating them through a poetic

and often metaphorical lens, Sumarac uses a critical

approach and visual vocabulary that pieces together

a variety of social and political issues, questioning how

we embody socially constructed stereotypes on a personal

and collective plane in an endeavor to develop

new ways of thinking.

“Combining my passion for engineering, fine art, and

philosophy, my current evolution focuses on intermedia

art, integrating new media and technologies with varied

artistic practices as a means of seeking out ways of healing

and empowerment. I am interested in investigating

what it means to be human in the present era of new

technologies, examining ideologies related to personal,

social, and political boundaries, as well as the relationship

between organic and AI organisms/algorithms, and

the power struggles arising from these debates.”

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Artwork: ‘BILLBOARDS FOR INSTANT RELEASE METANOIA** –

The Peace Mechanism‘, 2021, video and sound. Duration: 49”.

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NYGILIA MCCLAIN

Nygilia, also known as fantasy future gyal, is a mixed-media

artist that specializes in blending 2D & 3D styles into

experimental visuals. She uses Virtual Reality and combines

it with illustration, photography, and animation.

Her NFT art embodies the inspiration of Afrofuturism by

reflecting abstraction and fantasy.

As she creates her art, storytelling is a big factor. Nygilia

uses her experience from playing video games, such as

series like "Final Fantasy" and "Legend of Zelda", to heighten

the depth of character design. Nygilia's love for

African and Asian Art is very much relevant to her craft.

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Artwork: ‘Luscious Life‘, NFT Collection Exclusive Selection,

3240 x 4050 pixels, NFT 1/1 Collectible.

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OH DE LAVAL

Polish-Thai artist Oh de Laval’s vibrant, faux-naïf figurative

paintings are beautiful yet macabre, unsettling yet humorous,

and deviant yet honest. Among the varied inspirations

for her work are industrial design (which she studied

for two years), Francis Bacon’s hedonistic lifestyle, and

sociologist Emile Durkheim’s theory that deviance is an

integral part of society. Her characters reside within lush

landscapes and interiors reminiscent of a Rococo-esque

frivolity, yet the women are often bare-chested, painted in

garish pinks and reds, and the men have sardonic grins

plastered onto their melting faces. Paintings that may appear

romantic from afar take on an unsettling or playful

edge as she explores 21st-century eroticism.

"The eroticism in my paintings is as much about sexual

desire as lust, wrath, violence, despair, and happiness”.

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Artwork: ‘To Feel Alive‘, signed 'ohdelaval' (lower right);

numbered '3/69' (lower left), giclee artist print with semi-gloss

overlay, image: 69 x 51.8 cm. (27 1/5 x 20 2/5 in.).

Executed in 2020, edition 3/69.

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Artwork: ‘REMEDY or POISON‘, 2011/2013, Empty pills blisters

on clear plastic sheets and MDF with metallic paint, approx.

247 x 500 x 5 cm.

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PEGGY KLIAFA

Peggy Kliafa (b.1967) is a multimedia contemporary visual

artist, living and working in Athens, Greece. She graduated

from the Athens School of Fine Arts with - Major

in Painting and her main choice in Sculpture- (2012). She

participated in several Group Exhibitions and Art Fairs

in Greece and abroad (e.g. in the Athens School of Fine

Arts and Athens University, Athens Concert Hall, Rhodes

Museum of Modern-Greek Art, Fondazione Giorgio Cini

-Venice, Art Athina, Beirut Art Fair, Removement, Athens,

2017 supported by NEON organization, Ionian Parliament

of Corfu, EMST-National Museum of Contemporary art –

Athens, 6th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art

– “Imagined Homes”, Averoff Museum of Neohellenic Art,

Metsovo, Makrideio Theatre, Paphos, Cyprus). She also

had a work presentation in Onassis Cultural Center, two

Solo Exhibitions – Pharmakon in Kappatos Gallery, Athens

(2013) and Placebo in Lola Nikolaou Gallery, Thessaloniki

as well as a 3-person show in the Averoff Museum

of Neohellenic Art, Metsovo (2017). Her works have been

acquired by public collections in Greece and several private

collections in Greece and abroad.

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POLINA FILIPPOVA

“I am a multi-disciplinary artist, working across interactive

art, performances, and video. I hold a Master’s degree

from the Royal College of Art (2021, Moving Image), and

am currently based in London. My work has been exhibited

at the Saatchi Gallery (London), Cynthia Corbette’s

Gallery (London), Menier Gallery (London), The Function

Suite (London). I received an award “Focus On the Female”

as an emerging artist in 2021 and have been shortlisted

as a UK New Artist of the Year in 2022.

The projects I make arise from events, spaces and relationships

I live through. The pieces are set in the places I

live or use the objects that surround me. I get inspiration

in daily life and traces of the digital layer that crosses it.

My process is documental – I record and catalog situations,

objects, people and myself in videos, sounds, texts,

3D scans, pencil and pastel drawings. This material becomes

a starting point for all my work.

In my work, I attempt to uncover the new mental states,

interactions and relationships, that appear because of

the digital world, but have never been represented and

comprehended. I search for a form that imagines a world

where relationships with the digital could be intimate and

deep. I think that interactive art is still in its infancy, and

I would love to be among the ones who define this field

and take it from a technology into a true means of artistic

expression.”

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Artwork: ‘Almost There‘ series, 2021. Self-Portraits 01, 02, 03,

04. Single-channel video, framed screens, 51×30×5 cm.

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PYAE PHYO THANT NYO


Pyae Phyo Thant Nyo was born in 1998 in Myitkyina,

Myanmar. He lives and works between London, Yangon

and Bangkok. He graduated from Camberwell College

of Arts with Fine Arts Photography (2021). His artistic

practice shifts between photography/video, painting,

sculpture and installation. In his recent site-specific

“Electric Ruby” exhibition, he created installations consisting

of metallic structures, including raw materials

set to be ‘harvested’ over time, tapping into ideas inspired

by both agricultural and ritualistic activities.

“My interest and research mainly focuses on power

struggles between different units among our society.

Often by creating or imagining uncommon, isolated

poetic landscapes using electronic and raw materials,

I try to present the connection within the different registers

of reality and what damage these clashes would

bring to the ecosystem over time. In term of practice,

I explore how, and through what, collective memory is

created by (re)arranging the objects and materials

which are carefully grown. My process of creating works

is like painting or perhaps to play with painting because

the scrap materials bring in their own shapes, for a reverse

excavation to slowly layer out its forms”.

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Artwork: ‘The RAM‘, 2021-2022, Mixed Media Installation.

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SALLY KINDBERG

Sally Kindberg, born in Sweden (1970) and studied at

Goldsmiths, University of London where she now lives

and works. Interested in both high and low brow culture,

Kindberg plays on the notion of the tragicomic in a society

that is both civilised and ridiculous and she uses

this humorous approach acting as a portal that enables

us to explore other, more unsavoury emotions. Digging

where she stands, it is often Kindberg’s nearby surroundings

that take centre stage. A fragment of a frame of

life in the city is brought into the limelight and Kindberg

uses detailed observations without exposing the individual

or the original inspiration for the work. Kindberg’s

paintings are predominantly figurative but where the figurative,

which is primarily the starting point, becomes

peculiarly abstracted. Then, intuitively embracing the

unfolding picture, surfaces and shapes pop out, plough

through or disappear into the background with the use

of vibrant colours. Often highlighted areas stand out to

create harmony or tension in the paintings.

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Artwork: ‘A little domestic waste I‘, 2017, Natural and synthetic

fiber, hand-woven fabric, steel, cement, and coiled

rope, 41 × 24 × 17 in | 104.1 × 61 × 43.2 cm.

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SARAH ZAPATA

Textile artist Sarah Zapata creates technicolored handwoven

sculptures, rug-like canvases, and installations

that draw on Peruvian weaving techniques and American

rug-making traditions. Anthropomorphic mixed-media

sculptures like A little domestic waste (2017) begin as

coiled fiber vessels inspired by a burial practice from

the Paracas, a pre-Columbian Peruvian society. The

time consuming and physically demanding nature of

these fiber works helps the artist connect her practice

with craftworks Peruvian women have been producing

for thousands of years. The mix of traditions and styles

in her work also reflects Zapata’s intersectional identity

as a queer Peruvian-American raised in a religious household

in Texas. Zapata is among a new generation of

artists using traditional craft techniques. Her works have

been shown at venues including the Museum of Arts and

Design, El Museo del Barrio, the Museum of Contemporary

Art North Miami, and Museo MATE in Lima.

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Artwork: ‘A work from Sarah Bahbah's series “Fool Me

Twice”‘, Photo courtesy of the artist.

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SARAH BAHBAH

Sarah Bahbah is a Palestinian/Jordanian-Australian Artist

and Director living in Los Angeles. Raised by Immigrant parents,

her culturally conservative upbringing led to a great

rebellion of Art. Over the past decade Sarah has become

renowned for her signature style, giving birth to visually

striking, culture-shifting stories that combine her most intimate

psyche and inner dialogue appearing as subtitles

with cinematic stills. Sarah’s art explores the power of vulnerability

by way of giving voice to the vast spectrum of

chaos and desire in imperfect relationships. She believes in

embracing emotional freedom to break taboos and celebrate

the liberation of guilt and shame. With every story Sarah

releases on Instagram, her cult-like following responds,

leading every series created to go internationally viral.

Through her content creation agency, Possy, she has worked

with the likes of Gucci, Condé Nast, Capitol Records,

Sony Music, and GQ.. In an effort to challenge traditional Art

world norms, she launched a ‘pay what you can’ initiative

making her art more accessible to the public. Since then,

has sold over 10,000 prints. Her art has been exhibited internationally

at 25 art fairs and galleries including Saatchi

Gallery London, Zonamaco Mexico, and Scope Art Basel

before she left to do it on her own. She has self-funded five

international solo exhibitions which saw huge success and

has been featured in countless publications including New

York Times, Forbes, Business Insider, The Cut, Vogue US, Vice

and many more.

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SÈVE FAVRE


“Passionate about the concept of integration, I concentrate

on transcending the classical boundary between

the artwork and the viewer. The main feature of my art

is interactivity. The keywords that support my concept

is being interaction (be together), variation (be different),

and activity (be active). I named this experience:

« Intervariactivity ».

My goal is to integrate the viewer into my art in a direct

and tactile way. I combine this experience with a strong

digital (virtual) focus and physical (real) way, through

works on canvas, in situ installations, performances,

happening or digital works and projects. My interactive

artworks engage the public in the artistic process in order

to have an impact on their way of thinking about art

and concepts. My goal is to enable the viewer to understand

the research and questioning that an artist

asks himself during the process of experimentation

and creation. The work that emerges from the encounter

between my work and the viewer is plural. My artworks

become personal, variable, changing, permanently

reversible, and therefore multiple. Each painting,

although unique, contains several paintings because

each modification made by the spectator induces a

new design of the artwork. This is why some paintings

are compared with their combinatorial mathematical

calculation so that the viewer realizes the multiple

components of an artwork”.

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Artwork: ‘Captation‘, Interactive site-specific installation,

14 x 16 meter, 2022.

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Artwork: ‘The Fucking Sigh‘, 2022, 122 x 91cm, Acrylic and

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SHUMAIYA KHAN

Shumaiya Khan is a painter, writer and creative. Born in

Bradford, West Yorkshire to an immigrant south Asian family,

before moving to London to pursue higher education

where she resides to this day. Khan comes from a design-led

background, earning her degree in Design from

the Goldsmiths University of London. Although she has

always painted, she only fully resumed her art practice in

April 2020. Khan is self-taught and her work has always

had an element of experimentation with textures and

motion within an abstract framework built to engage

emotion within her audience.

In her earlier critical theory design work, this has translated

into recording statistics in visually fluid, quantifiable

measurable ways, with ink, ceramics, and plants. Between

2010 to 2019, Khan’s sole focus was on her creative & art

direction roles within fashion, homeware, and beauty. Today

she produces contemporary abstract expressionist

pieces via the use of acrylic, charcoal, chalk, and poetry

across canvas paper and film. Khan's practice aims to

explore juxtapositions around emotive behaviors in the

sphere of; the relationship with ourselves, what it means

to be feminine, the occurrence of coercion & control, and

the fragility & restless motions of life. She has stated previously

that she is compelled to create, being both a meditative

and explorative practice for her. The commentary

which takes place upon viewing her work should provoke

deeper feelings about our own temporary nature.

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SIIGII


SiiGii (see-jee) is a genderqueer Spanish artist based in

NYC. Intertwining mediums of sculpture and fashion, SiiGii’s

work confronts the limits of the body and the endlessness

of energy. An extensive background in fashion

design, tailoring, and millinery allows SiiGii a unique

perspective and approach to sculpture.

They treat the body as yet another garment that the soul

is forced to wear, and craves to be free from. This translates

into a sculptural choreography—a still, mindful performance

that each piece expresses through posture and

presence. SiiGii’s art speaks in concept, always driven by

a specific healing intention and universal message: “My

art practice is where I have the power to own my stories

and create positive transformation. During the process

of creation, I’m in an almost meditative state in which

something that lives in my head gets born through my

hands. It goes far beyond making something to look at. I

am healing myself and my audience.”

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Artwork: ‘ESCAPING FORM. MY SOUL HAS A BODY‘, 2021,

Casted silicone, plexiglass, acrylic paint, fabric, fiberglass

and wood. 70” x 98” x 23”.

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SOFIA CRESPO

Sofia Crespo is an artist working with a huge interest in

biology-inspired technologies. One of her main focuses

is the way organic life uses artificial mechanisms to simulate

itself and evolve, implying the idea that technologies

are a biased product of the organic life that created

them and not a completely separated object. Crespo

looks at the similarities between techniques of AI image

formation, and the way that humans express themselves

creatively and cognitively recognize their world. Her work

brings into question the potential of AI in artistic practice

and its ability to reshape our understanding of creativity.

On the side, she is also hugely concerned with the dynamic

change in the role of the artists working with machine

learning techniques. She’s also the co-founder of

Entangled Others Studio.

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Artwork: ‘On the seabed gazing up‘, from Sofia Crespo’s

series “Neural Zoo,” 2018-21.

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SOLA OLULODE

British-Nigerian artist Sola Olulode creates delicate

portrayals of queer love through her figurative works.

Influenced by Yoruba Adire textiles, Olulode renders intimate

scenes of romance and Black womanhood. Her

works are lively yet potent; we witness tender narratives

unfold across the canvas. Olulode was featured in Artsy’s

2021 “Portrayals of Black Joy” campaign, which saw her

work appear on public screens within the transit systems

of several major U.S. cities.

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Artwork: ‘Picnic In The Park‘, 2022, Oil, acrylic, ink, oil pastel

on canvas, 70 7/8 × 70 7/8 in | 180 × 180 cm.

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SPENCER SHAKESPEARE


Born in 1967 in London, Shakespeare discovered his addiction

to the natural world in his yearly holidays to Cornwall

with his family, which, after 20 years of living on Australia's

Gold Coast he has returned to, residing near Penzance

where he says the bird song is at its most beautiful.

Being an obsessive and automatic drawer since the age

of seven, Shakespeare completed a degree in Illustration

at Bournemouth College of Art and Design (1992-1995). Although

his love of drawing never stopped, as he matured

both as a person and an artist, he sought to break away

from commissioned work, seeking his own artistic independence.

Now an internationally successful artist, independence

is what he has certainly achieved. He enjoys

transcribing places of intersection; the coastline, the edge

of forests- places where a transition of boundaries takes

place. The garden is significant in his work because of the

element of interchange between the domestic boundary

and the beginning of wilderness. Although he is inspired by

places such as these, he never strives for specifics nor is

beholden to the landscape around him, instead drawing

and exposing his own imaginary world. His work connotes

a kind of mystery, a kind of magic. A world where colors

are intense, high contrast, and energetic: vibrating with

emotional energy. His abstract canvases show the blurred

boundaries of the humming world he sees: a door for you,

the viewer, that opens into a wonderland.

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Artwork: ‘THE FOOLS DREAM‘, 2022, 170 x 195 Acrylic and Oil

and Graphite on Canvas.

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STELLA KAPEZANOU


Stella Kapezanou is a visual artist based in Athens, Greece.

‘Even though my painting is in harmony with the figurative

practice, my main body of work does not focus on what

one would call realism. My artworks are defined by their

accuracy in the depiction of the composition, however, I

consciously disengage from these visual references. Although

I’m seeking the proximity in the representation of

each subject, my ultimate focus is devoted to the exploration

of the various formalistic and expressionistic possibilities

offered by the medium of painting. My works are

deliberately “structured” and “observed” in a distressed

atmosphere and I frequently return to familiar imagery

while at the same time, I attempt to raise concerns over

the conventions of the painted depiction and expand my

artistic boundaries. Ultimately, the canvas - using paint,

composition and meaning - becomes a stage where the

dominant element is the interpretation and understanding

of the human condition.

My paintings are juggling between abstraction and

realism and I invite the viewer to construct their own

story behind the setting. My intention is that the viewers

come across unfiltered images which allow them to

relate to the protagonists and experience the unpredictability

and irrationality of our daily choices. Looking

at my paintings sometimes feels like scrolling through

a social media feed. Highly stylized people, surrealistically

patterned backgrounds and scenes that in most

cases could never quite occur present the same allure

and playful style of advertising and branding.’

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Artwork: ‘As much as Baby wants‘, 2020, Oil on canvas,

30x40 cm.

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STEPHANIE NNAMANI

Stephanie C. Nnamani—well-known as Teff—is an award

winning photographer, essayist, and archivist from Enugu,

Nigeria who lives and works in New York City.

CORONATION OF THE KIN is a portrait editorial designed

to interrogate competing concepts of identity and togetherness

within the construct of the African family

unit. Its title reveals the intimacy and values the concept

of "family" holds widely across the continent, likening the

belonging to and creation of family to that of ascending

into a space of royalty. It is important-again-to note

that while family holds a multitude of variations, each

maintains one persistent truth: kinship determines status.

It was inspired by a myriad of personal experiences

as well as close cultural observations. Thematically, it

focuses on the tradition and institution of marriage in

a manner that addresses the disproportionate social

positioning of women in African culture, the intimate

connectivity of identity present in an inherently collectivist

culture, and how both interact with defying and

upholding internalization of socially-prescribed scripts

for performative masculinity and femininity with an intimate

look at child-bearing as a testament to both.

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Artwork: ‘CORONATION OF THE KIN‘, fine art photography,

2018 - Ongoing.

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STEPHANIE SARLEY


Stephanie Sarley is a prolific multimedia artist creating

her own world of art, using humor and absurdity to boldly

challenge how sexuality is perceived and defined. Her art

encompasses the surreal and the visceral. Arsty magazine

named Sarley as one of eight women who turned

food into feminist art. Her art has been covered extensively

by the media and exhibited internationally, most

notably The Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig, Museum Der

Dinge, Museum Jan Cunen, and ESMOA.

Sarley works in an array of mediums with a background

in fine arts having studied intaglio/lithography and

printmaking, stone sculpture and tattoo. The artist has

created series of ‘Fruit Art Videos’, ‘Crotch Monsters’ and

‘Orcunts’, and published a surrealistic coloring book,

‘Dick Dog and Friends’. Her art displays a wide spectrum

of multimedia works, digital works, as well as multiple

series of video, photography, graphite and ink, painting

and 3D sculpture.

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Artwork: ‘Fruit Salad‘, 1080 MP4, 1/1 NFT, Part of the Juicy

Fruits series.

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Artwork: 'Symphony 2020-Beethoven', Oil on Canvas,

60cmx60cm.

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TIFFANY BARBER

“I am a Scottish Graduate Artist based in Brighton, England.

I studied at Edinburgh College of Art participating in

a 4-year Painting BA(Hons) Degree and a study exchange

at the Hungarian University of Fine Art in Budapest, Hungary.

I graduated in July 2016 and have since continued

pursuing my artistic career.

Within my practice, I mainly engage with imagery that is

both ambiguous and provocative. I turn the focus towards

the viewer, highlighting aspects of their preconceptions in

order to ultimately provoke a dialogue concerning the field

of ideas raised by each artwork's subject. The compositions

I create are designed to perceive an image of obscurity.

I am currently focusing on the fusion of classism

with contemporary to evoke reaction by conceptually and

visually communicating current social issues. I have previously

demonstrated this through the use of the female

form in combination with various intricate textures and

details. I am continuing to create oil paintings of sculptural

masterpieces from renaissances onwards connecting

us to the past and what lies ahead of us.”

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TIZIANO SUMMO


Tiziano Summo is an artist made in Italy and crafted in

London with many years of experience in advertising and

start-ups. During the pandemic, he has been undertaking

his long-life dream of becoming an artist through a

long process of self-awareness.

Tiziano's installations examine the complex relationships

between art and science, nature and technology, life

and death. He believes that only by combining different

subjects can create something truly unique. With mortality

as the central theme, Tiziano challenges contemporary

belief systems, thus exploring the uncertainties at the heart

of the human experience. His practice is based on one

simple truth: to embrace life truly, you must face death.

The Light After Death series combines animal skulls with

man-made sleek neon, confronting the fragility of life

and the eternal perfection of geometry. Both beautiful

and electrifying, these functional light pieces evoke a romantic

reminder of the beauty of life and the inevitability

of death - memento mori.

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Artwork: ‘Moon‘, 2019/2020. Bones & neon installation,

80x70x20 cm.

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Artwork: ‘The Unicorn’s funeral‘, 2022, Oil on canvas, two

panels, each panel 120cm x150cm.

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TONG WU

“My figurative works draw upon my years growing up in

Chinese collective life and the experience in post-modern

society to explore the way we live and feel in an irresponsible

postmodern society. I integrate visual elements

from a variety of sources in my oil paintings, including

images from screens, newspapers and social media. The

use of traditional oil painting to represent images in the

electronic age is an interesting dialogue, while the act of

painting dissolves the artificiality of electronic images.

Using strategies of theatricality storytelling and lush color,

I create gorgeous and bizarre stage shows, which revisit

and indicate the artificiality and performativity of postmodern

society”.

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Artwork: ‘Dancing, Crying, Loving‘, 150 X 200 cm,

Oil on linen, 2020.

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WILLIAM GROB

“William Grob is a Berlin-based artist whose work has

always focused on the line between reality and the

psychic world. Working with mixed media, he collages,

paints onto photos, layers his work between the real

and the imagined. Often employing text that makes

no sense and all of it at the same time, he reminds us

of our constant internal monologues when faced with

banal situations in everyday life. His work is fraught

with satire: from New York street scenes highlighting

the prevalence of homelessness against a backdrop

of consumerist culture, to projecting thoughts of strangers

on trains, there is always an element of levity in

their loneliness”. Julia Hoove.

“I was an artist before I could talk. When I was a child

I had a severe speech disorder that shaped my whole

life, as I could not verbally express myself until the age

of seven. Art became my mother tongue, using colour

and form to express my happiness or frustration which

is now, subconsciously, deep-rooted into my practice.

The majority of my work comes from that place. All I

consciously try to create is a sense of understanding

and expressions understandable to anyone.”

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Artwork from IN A MOOD FOR LOVE series, ‘AN EXPLORA-

TION OF INTIMACY‘, 2022.

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XIANGYU DONG

Born in Anhui, China, Xiangyu grew up in a traditional Chinese

family. In 2017 he got a bachelor’s degree in Visual

Arts (media) from the University of California, San Diego.

He is currently based in London and studies at the Royal

College of Art. His works have been exhibited at Adam

D. Kamil Gallery, San Diego in 2020, Hefei Contemporary

Art Museum in 2021. He also attended 100 Young Talented

Group Exhibition in China and Every Where You Go Group

Exhibition in London. He was an honorable mention in

2020's International Photography Award.

“My first intimate relationship provokes me to explore and

contemplate intimacy. I present a romantic and life-like

narrative through the ritualistic construction of portraits

and still lives. Romance, fidelity, and companionship, the

three elements of a relationship, are dissolved in a poetic

form in the details of a life made up of the environment,

objects, and people. Through this series of photographs,

I retrace the mood swings and behavioral patterns in relationships

and attempt to trace their origins in order to

complete self-healing in intimate relationships.”

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XIUQIAN HU


Born in 1995 in Wuhan. In 2007 he moved to Beijing and currently

lives in Beijing and Paris. Since his arrival in France in

2017, he has been working in a new way of thinking, trying

to explore the complex relationship that arises between

painting, image, field and the society of the moment. Referring

to social media and the ever-changing modes of

information dissemination, the artist believes that painting

can serve as an important channel to intervene between

the real and the virtual world.

The diversity and complexity of digital images is also the

driving force behind the artist's continuous reflection and

exploration, and his works attempt to present the multi-layered

visual sensory experience brought by the digital

virtual space. Based on his personal experience, the artist

explores and questions the relationship between the increasingly

complex digital system and visual language, which

is the center of his current work.

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Artwork: ‘The arena‘, 2019-2020, Acrylic on canvas,

Dimensions variable.

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Artwork: ‘Snake for the Lover 25012020‘, Oil on linen,

160 x 150 cm.

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XU YANG

Yang Xu (b. 1996, Shandong, China). Graduated with 1st

Class Honours in BA Painting Wimbledon College of Arts

(2018), MA Painting at Royal College of Art (2018-20). Xu is

the Vice Chairman of UK - China Photography Association.

Winner of Barbican Arts Group Trust Artwork Open

2019 with following solo exhibition ‘100 Carat Diamond’

(2020). Xu has been nominated in many prizes including

Contemporary Young Artist (2020), The Signature Art Prize

(2019). She received the Highly Commended award

at the Air Gallery Open (2019) and On the Mountain We

Stay Residency (2019) supported by No Space Organisation

in China. She was also shortlisted for the Clyde &

Co Art Award (2018) and Whitechapel Gallery First Thursday

University Competition (2017). Xu has contributed

to collaborative art projects ‘Imaging Technologies’ With

Painting Research team of Wimbledon College of Arts at

Tate Modern (2017) and ’Here she Comes’ with Monster

Chetwynd at Royal Festival Hall (2016). Her works are collected

in China and Europe.

“I attempt to uncover Rococo’s elaborate and extravagant

style in paintings through playful brushstrokes. I

paint my works layer by layer with smudges and touches.

All those different twists are used to feel the creaminess of

the oil paint as it slides onto the textile—like applying icing

on a cake, they are sickening but delicious. Rococo is such

a maligned art form, but it is underpinned by idealizations,

hopes, and dreams we should have access to.”

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YASMIN NOORBAKHSH


“I am a multidisciplinary artist living in London. My

practice examines the notion of veracity, and I am particularly

interested in how our understanding of events

can be affected by media bias, personal and cultural

projection, assumption, and censorship. My work is

inspired by historical events as well as personal and

cultural belief systems. It focuses on the erasure of historical

and cultural events and objects and how they

lose their complexity and origin when looked at through

certain constructs or agendas. I borrow traditional and

historical elements and fuse them with elements of

contemporary practice, to create an ambiguous sense

of friction and collision.

As a female artist and a member of the Iranian diaspora,

my practice is infused with my experience of liminal

space and hybrid identity and its associated uncertainty.

There is constant questioning at the core of my practice.

My multifaceted layers, interweaving diverse motifs and

complex surfaces, depict the state of constantly existing

between two spaces; between the known and unknown;

the pleasant, and unpleasant; the West and the East, and

how sometimes these intersect and become intertwined”.

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Artwork: ‘One glimpse of the desert fountain’ 2021, Mixed

media on Wood, 180x120 cm.

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YIXUAN WANG


“Presently I’m working with digital

media, experience design, and moving

images. My research mainly focuses

on how ordinary people escape

the rules and regulations set by the

producers of social elements or the

authorities and gain more rights to

survive and create their own lives

provocatively.”

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Artwork: ‘Dreamland‘, an interactive

application/storytelling.

Work in progress.

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YIXUAN BAI


Yixuan Bai (b. 1999) is a Beijing-based

visual artist who is currently

studying at the Royal College of Art

in London. UK. Specializing in photography

and moving images, her

artworks focus on the self, mentality,

emotions, sociology, and contemporary

life, trying to find the emotional

resonance between the individual

and the collective while seeking the

reflection of the self.

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YOUNG JANG


“We cannot leave out the story of the natural environment

in our life. It has been and will continue to be in the

past. I make works on the theme of harmony, coexistence

and the relationship between nature and humans in

such a life. There is 'naturalism' in Korean traditional culture.

In a modern society, where the climate crisis and

environmental problems are emerging, shouldn't we

look back on and imitate the hearts of nature and nature

contained in buildings such as hanok (Korean traditional

house) or ancient paintings.

- Ilwolosemo(sun, moon and 5 triangles)

It expresses the relationship between nature and humans

and the relationship itself by newly interpreting

and combining old paintings and traditional styles such

as "Ilwol Obongdo". Ilwol Obongdo, which symbolizes the

harmony of yin and yang and the dignity of the king,

goes further from the king to interpret and express harmony

as human dignity in modern society. Expressing

mountains in triangles symbolizes the coexistence of

nature and human beings. It is expressed along with

other beings such as the sun, moon, and waves, and the

triangle is naturally recognized as a mountain. Triangles

can be easily found in buildings and signs in our lives.

He is the most human and friendly figure in the world I

think. The triangle symbolizes the mountain, that is, nature,

and human society at the same time.”

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Artwork: ‘Full Sun‘, 2022. Mixed media print on Korean

paper (hanji), 25x34 cm.

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Artwork: ‘All I Stole Was Some Love‘, 2022, Photography,

Archival Pigment Print.

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YUYUE ZHU

Yuyue Zhu (nickname: Dian Cheng) is a London-based

photographer currently studying toward her Master’s

degree in Arts at the Royal College of Art. Dian's work

uses photography as the primary medium to explore

the unnoticed political metaphors of images in contemporary

society and how they influence popular

consciousness.

In her ongoing project All I STOLE WAS SOME LOVE, she

found that diamond as a natural mineral is used in a

variety of consumer products: rings, necklaces, etc. and

is given a meaning closely associated with love. It has

been given a meaning that is closely linked to love. She

has attempted to visualize the symbolic control of the

capitalist consumer relationship, as illustrated by the

suggestive meaning of its presence, by re-structuring

the medium.

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ZHEN FENG ANG


“My practice is intrinsically tied to craft, introduced

through paper cutting and sewing. The medium or

method I work with is produced through labor intensity.

The intensive processes undergone within my work

are always present in the outcome of the piece, by displaying

the scraps alongside or transforming them

into a part of the work.

In the information age, people receive and absorb

huge amounts of information quickly, which leads to

a habit of lack of digestion of information. My practice,

therefore, has an element of confusion or obscuration

which challenge the audience to slow down and have

a good look at the things in front of them. Strategies I

use to enable this ‘slowing down is by playing with ambiguity,

the ‘impossible to tell’. Besides, my work often

requires close and slow observation, and painting over

my artwork or covering it up with scraps doubles the

time needed for the viewer to observe”.

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Artwork: ‘Buddies‘, 2022, mixed media installation.

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