About the Artist

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Eliška Jahelková is a Czech painter and a graduate of Transmedia Arts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Her practice explores colour, space and simplification towards abstraction. Approaching painting as an alchemical process, she allows materials to guide her as collaborators. Her work accommodates multiple realities, opening up ways of thinking beyond fixed definitions and linguistic boundaries. She has exhibited internationally since 2019, including in Vienna, Berlin, Athens, Prague, London and New York.

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Gerald Habarth is an artist and animator, and Associate Professor of Art at West Virginia University, where he leads Digital Art and Animation. His experimental animation and video explore personal memory, historical events, consciousness, perception and mortality, combining photographic, hand-drawn and digital processes. Beginning with a twenty-year-old paper collage, Wake brings animation, moving image and sound together to reflect on social collapse, denial, betrayal and the effort to awaken to what we experience.

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AGENTJAMES is a Bangkok-based artist and member of the hip-hop collective FRESCO. Born in Si Racha and raised in Hua Hin, his practice draws on coastal life, personal memory and media culture, bringing together hip-hop, storytelling, sampling and sonic reinvention. Karma Chaser assembles music, film dialogue, internet monologues, ambient sound and personal footage into a sonic time capsule, confronting dormant memories and unresolved emotions.

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jiara sha notices small dances: a snail’s tentacle twitching, crumpled plastic slowly unfolding, or a tea string moving in gentle air. Her practice asks how such slight movements draw our attention. Her recent durational, participatory encounters are danced by discarded things, dust, lint, fragments and bodies in changing conditions, attending to their capacity to morph, molt and decay. She also works with biomaterials and soft, useless robots, which she calls “haptic critters.”

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Jiayang Yuan was born in Shanxi, China, in 1995 and is based in Dali, Yunnan. An independent designer and artist, she studied at Central Saint Martins and in the New Genres programme at the San Francisco Art Institute, before graduating from Individualized Studies at California College of the Arts in 2021. Her current practice focuses on conceptual art and textiles. It Doesn't Matter brings together a hammock and nails.

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Born in Jiangsu in 2002, Sense Wang graduated in Public Art from the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology. Their practice spans tempera, mineral pigments, mosaic, lacquer painting, installation, illustration and interactive art. Much of their work develops an imagined universe known as the “Other Side,” closely connected to reality. Through this evolving world, they explore mysterious realms beyond the limits of human perception.

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Blue caterpillar, “In Dali, I share a weed-filled courtyard with dozens of insects whose names I do not know. We share a blue sky, sunsets and an inner spirit. This work is dedicated to them and to myself. Together, we slowly weave webs and crawl.”

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Han Gao is an interdisciplinary artist and curator working across sound, moving image, performance and socially engaged practices. She holds a BA in Fine Art and an MA in Filmmaking from Goldsmiths, University of London. Her practice explores listening, memory, intimacy and the shifting relationships between individuals and their surroundings. Through sonic experimentation, moving image and collective actions, she creates spaces for encounter and shared experience. In 2023, she founded CHIMIMORA, organising exhibitions, screenings, performances and residencies across different cities and non-traditional art spaces.

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Jiaying Zou is an interdisciplinary artist, curator and co-founder of CHIMIMORA. Her practice spans visual art, sound and scent, exploring connections and possibilities across different media. Through art-making, curating and cultural activities, she brings creative practices together, with a focus on experimentation and cultural exchange.

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Fan Su is a contemporary ink painter and a member of artists’ associations in Shenzhen and Hong Kong, including the Shenzhen Women Artists Association.

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Kirtika Sharan is an interdisciplinary artist and printmaker based in India, with a BFA and MFA in Printmaking from Kala Bhavana, Visva-Bharati University. Rooted in printmaking, her practice extends into drawing, sculpture, installation, collage and moving image. Drawing on personal and inherited histories, she explores memory, childhood, home, displacement and belonging. She has exhibited and undertaken residencies in India and internationally, receiving an award at the SSVAD Young Shantiniketan Artists’ Exhibition in 2024.

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Based in Berlin, Romo Lindved builds textured worlds from wood, plaster, charcoal and found imagery. Growing up between Danish and Cuban cultures informs his interest in identity, belonging, vulnerability and resilience. His paintings bring rough, damaged surfaces together with moments of tenderness, humour and intimacy, creating imagined worlds where imperfection, transformation and care coexist.

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Born in Ubud in 1994, Sakde Oka began her artistic journey through the Bali Emerging Artist exhibition in 2022. Working primarily with fabric and thread, she approaches sewing and embroidery as meditative ways to connect with feelings. Drawing inspiration from silence, shifting moods, bodily limitations and domestic spaces, she combines human, animal, plant and cosmic forms to explore connections between inner experience and the wider world.

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H.M. Arafat is a London-based writer and visual artist working across poetry, illustration and visual storytelling. Their ongoing project, The Tales of Arafat, explores grief, identity, memory, healing and belonging.

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Born in Shymkent, Kazakhstan, in 1997, Diana Muminova works across photography, collage and mixed media. After studying public relations and advertising communications, she returned to image-making through commercial product photography in 2021. Her practice explores memory and metamorphosis through contemporary still life, arranging everyday objects, photographing them and reworking the images through collage to consider how personal memories change over time.

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Keyu Hao (b. 1996) is a Shanghai-based visual artist with an MA in Illustration from Kingston University.

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Freja Jiahui Ye works across sculpture, installation, sound, performance

and scenography, creating immersive environments through material

encounters and spatial narratives. Drawing on dramaturgy, alchemical

processes and ritual, she explores transformation, embodied experience

and connections between bodies and their environments. She holds a BA in

Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London, and was selected for a

residency at Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg.

In Amor Fati, crystals grow over knitted garments and dissolve during a

bodily performance, leaving traces of the encounter between material and

body.

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Performing artist:

Formed in Marseille in March 2026, CHĪ RÉN brings together French experimental filmmaker and musician TTSUKINO (Tristan Torre) and Chinese interdisciplinary artist and body performer Ixix hool (曦曦). Working with handmade instruments, electronic sound, live sampling, original moving images, movement and voice, the duo creates improvised encounters in which sound, image and body respond to one another. Each performance takes shape through the space and the unfolding exchange between the artists.