Almagul MENLIBAYEVA Kazakh artist Almagul Menlibayeva’s diverse portfolio encompasses multi-channel video, photography, AI art and mixed media installations, exploring the complexities of indigenous and post-Soviet socialist modernity. She meticulously examines socio-economic and political shifts in Central Asia, challenging traditional gender norms, and delving into themes of environmental degradation and indigenous mythologies. She earned her MFA from the Art and Theatre University of Almaty. Her works have been displayed in venues worldwide, including the Venice Biennale, Sydney Biennale, and Sharjah Biennale. […]
Suad GARA Suad Gara is a British-Azerbaijani filmmaker and art curator. She has made three shorts and is currently working on her debut feature, Hotel Diana, with the British Film Institute. The project was selected for WEMW Co-Production Forum, where it won the Pop-Up Film Residency Award, and for the Less Is More script lab by Le Groupe Ouest in 2023. Before embarking on this journey in 2020, Suad was the chief curator and artistic director of YARAT Contemporary Art […]
Photo: Taipei Fine Arts Museum
ZHANG Xu-Zhan Zhang Xu-Zhan, born into the popular century-old Hsin-Hsing Paper Sculpture Store in Xinzhuang, New Taipei City, in 1988, specialises in creating a riotous profusion of paper effigies, from luxurious mansions and giant paper dolls to mythical creatures and flowers. The artist is also proficient in employing diverse media such as drawing, stop-motion paper dolls and multi-channel video installation to create animations, videos, experimental films and extended images. His artworks encapsulate his wry observations on strange social phenomena and […]
YIU Kwan Kit Ellen Ellen Yiu is an artist fascinated by tactile materials, which leads her to work across mediums such as woodwork, textiles and installations while also incorporating overlooked materials like hair and discarded matter. Her works explore the relationship between people and objects, inviting viewers into a world of introspection and universal connection. Each piece is a blend of emotions, encouraging an examination of the seemingly ordinary details in life. Her practice is driven by a love for making […]
YIM Yen Sum Born in Kuala Lumpur, Yim Yen Sum works predominantly in textiles. Her practice involves delicate needlework that is both repetitive and subject to manipulation including dyeing, digital editing and appliqué. She believes that creating art should not be an individual act but a process that encourages interconnectivity and the fostering of new relationships. These connections extend beyond individuals to one’s relationship with their immediate environments, often addressing the experience of inhabitants living in urban areas and their […]
YE Funa Ye Funa, born in Yunnan, is an artist and researcher who lives and works in London and Beijing. Her practice critically explores everyday realities and the perceived connections between authority and various societal domains, including different power structures and margin groups. Ye’s recent work incorporates new technologies and engages with various ethnic communities, developing participatory, internet-based projects and probing the integration of art systems into personal and communal spaces. Her recent exhibitions include solo exhibitions at the 4A […]
Aziza SHADENOVA Aziza Shadenova is a Kazakh artist born in Uzbekistan. Her work is mostly based around humour and absurdism involved in the perception of life, memories, womanhood and immigration, often untangling her roots and thoughts as an immigrant, a woman, a wife, an artist and a human being. For her, these are observations and engagements with the past and present and an investigation of how it may reflect on the future, challenging her to see beyond history and capture […]
Güneş TERKOL Born in 1981 in Ankara, Turkey, Güneş Terkol explores issues of gender through the use of fabric, sewing, sound and drawing. She believes in the significance of collective work and coming together with a common goal, and has held collaborative workshops in different countries and cities, drawing inspiration from the everyday realities and imaginations of the participants. Since 2005, the artist has produced works both individually and as part of the artist collective Ha Za Vu Zu. She […]
Nanao Photo: Yuriko Takagi
KOBAYASHI Nanao Born in Tokyo, Kobayashi Nanao is a contemporary artist who delves into phenomena beyond human perception and logic, capturing them as movements of particles. Her artistic practice intricately involves embroidery-like sculptures and installations that engage with natural phenomena. Meticulously constructed from interconnected hollow structural materials, her works proliferate infinitely from minimal units, rendering the imperceptible into tangible patterns and occurrences. Through this process, Kobayashi offers a vision of the world’s essential nature that transcends the past and the […]
Young In HONG Born in Seoul, Young In Hong lives and works in Bristol, working across installation, sculpture, sound, textile and performance. Her practice often focuses on undervalued cultural practices and seeks for a sense of equality that gently undermines ruling hierarchies. In recent years, Hong has increasingly examined notions of inter-species communication, symbolism and the hybridity of sound, movement and objects in the context of other-than-human voices. Hong’s recent solo exhibitions have been held at Spike Island, Bristol (2024); […]