The artists’ works span a wide array of themes and mediums. Alexandra Tahereh Kaucher video work grapples with cultural identity as a second generation Iranian immigrant growing up in the USA. Cláudia Köver Jordão is a Portuguese writer and multidisciplinary artist working with poetry and short-stories, digital and analog collage, as well as documentary photography. Darren Guo Li’s practice centers around interdisciplinary scientific and queer thought, drawing on his background in Quantitative Biology. Emal Dubsk’s photography represents the diversity of experiences among non-cigender people through documentary research. Farhat’s work process arises by merging different media, such as drawing, sculpture, photography and painting.
Fahsai Chainarong creates performative installations that use technology to acknowledge the co-existence between microbes and humans. Flávio Malaguti’s work explores themes of self-perception and identity, focusing on the LGBTQ+ experience. For Francesca Rosati “landscape” is always a constant in her work. Hani Kim’s blend of Eastern and Western cultural elements are reflected in her art through themes of introspection and psychological complexity. Katherine Howard Rogers work is about the experience of how memory and willed belief, find relationship through building an image. Kathleen Judge is a mixed-media artist who explores the representation of landscape through ink drawings, acrylic paint, animation and sound. Laura Ansaldi is a professional opera singer who is researching a way to bring together music and the visual, for a holistic performance. Lauren Blankstein is an interdisciplinary artist inspired by dwellings, urban spaces and how they are inhabited. Loktung Wong’s work uses earthy elements to explore the complexity of being human. Lucija Zaja’s work is inspired by memories and trauma related to her own experience with war, as well as universal and collective pain. Lucila Sancineti’s artistic practice explores processes to foster organisms that tighten the boundaries that connect us to otherness.
Marcus Miller works across drawing, print-making and painting, exploring the ways in which desire is mapped in the contemporary cityscape. Midori Samson’s practice explores her Asian American identity by examining the collective traumas experienced by her Japanese and Filipino ancestors. Moksha Richards’ artistic research interconnects concepts from theoretical physics, spirituality, mathematics, technology, history and cosmism. Nicolás Fiorentino uses photography to explore daily life as a way to connect with his environment and reflect on contemporary existence. Pauline Kling’s curatorial work focuses on power-critical analysis related to classism and gender, as well as the political potential of art. Rafal Wysocki’s photography explores the interplay of movement, light, and form—in both natural and human-made environments.
Rina Kawai explores the inner reality of the “non-visual realm,” focusing on the “structure of the mind and body” through Zen philosophy. ROM explores themes of identity, resilience, and empowerment—particularly through the lens of women’s experiences. Samantha Jensen’s collages often begin as single images, but within the printing process the images are ripped and torn to create something new. Shara Francisco seeks to capture how the senses of hearing and seeing interact, creating a moving texture or pattern of a transient moment fixed at a specific point in time. Wu Yan Lin’s work transcends the boundaries of ethnicity and territory, offering a conceptual and visual reinterpretation of in-between spaces.
