These artists explore a range of themes and mediums, each bringing a unique perspective to the world around us. Abigail Severance uses film to explore nostalgia, flawed history, and the queerness of in-betweenness. Chi Zhang’s multidisciplinary work reflects personal narratives, seeking peace and connection amid complexity. Emilia Franciszka Jechna imprints herselfself on the canvases, making her silhouette a part of her creation.
Esteban Patino investigates language and symbols through a unique 24-character alphabet, while Farhat merges mediums to explore perception, identity, and the interplay of visual chaos and control. Francesca Rosati creates art that honors everyday routines, memories, and objects. gwen charles combines elements of reality and magical realism to reflect on the absurdity of daily life using handmade objects and costumes, while Jay Lee’s art blends found objects and natural materials exploring the fluidity of identity and the passage of time.
Juan Couder views photography as a process rather than a final image, embracing its liquid, opaque, and ephemeral materiality. Judith Fang investigates the sense of nostalgia and rootlessness in urban life. Kathleen Judge uses audio field recordings, acrylic paint and pen and ink drawings to study time. Through video and text, Leanne Finnegan’s work explores the appearance of the sacred in post-modernity. Liang He researches anxiety around human subjectivity under capitalism, focusing on themes of domination and technological violence. Multidisciplinary artist and VJ Maria Mitsi merges sound and visuals to evoke the sublime and humanity’s attempts to imagine the vast unknown. Miruna Mogosanu’s paintings are portals to imaginary worlds, blending psychology, philosophy, and storytelling, while Nicole Hipp explores the intersection of virtual and physical worlds, combining art and technology in evolving ways.
Art thinker and cultivator Rosaline Dou recontextualizes everyday habits and actions through autoethnographic storytelling. Shirley Moneyhon paints the complex interplay between the sacred, the family structure, and her identity as a woman. Tania Traver ’s work explores different aspects that shape our identity, both cultural and ethnic, and Yoab Vera integrates architecture, spirituality, and neuroaesthetics through meditative, tactile painting, using oil-stick and concrete.