EL UMBRAL DE LA MEMORIA, or The Threshold of Memory when translated into English, is a two-hour performance by Fina Ferrara. This is an interactive and interdisciplinary performance which incorporates moving-image, light design, and installation. Also, EL UMBRAL DE LA MEMORIA contains several ‘artifacts’ and mementos from a previous performance, which is A-B-USED. These ‘artifacts’ and mementos are primarily divided into two portions, the entrance is a moving-image installati

Alexandra-Camelia Stanciu (Alice) is a jewelry and fashion designer who has exhibited in Bucharest. Notable exhibitions in Bucharest include Casa Eliad and National Bank of Romania. With a background in graphic design, since 2024 Alexandra has dedicated herself towards her own personal designs based in fashion and jewelry. With a focus on ancient and ancestral Romanian folk-lore and history, Alexandra uses her fashionable wares and jewelry to imprint symbolism related to her

Arrival Gallery is an international gallery based in London, Paris, New York, Osaka, Brighton, Milan, Lisbon, Madrid, Athens, Amsterdam, and Manilla. They interviewed interdisciplinary lens-based artist Michael Hanna with 10 curated questions about his practice. Michael is also the principle writer and editor of Point Pleasant Publishing. 1. What are some of your earliest artistic memories, and how do they continue to influence your work today? My earliest memory as a

One of the reasons moving-image has historically been an underrepresented form of visual art is because throughout the history of film and video, society has largely regulated these mediums as entertainment or fringe expressions, rather than high-art. Moving-image and performance as artforms are at the forefront of the avant-garde because we are collectively rethinking our approach to art with sustained motion. Since time immemorial, we have largely defined art as a static, f

Written by Joas Nebe. The Kunstmuseum Basel presents the first major solo exhibition in Europe of moving-image artist Cao Fei (born 1978), whose formative years in China coincided with the cautious economic opening under Deng Xiaoping and whose artistic imagination bears traces of semi-legal Western imports alongside early imitations of Western consumer goods and their visual language. Growing up amid such hybrid material cultures, Fei began producing Hip Hop videos in the ea

Chenglin Li is an installation, moving-image, and computational artist who has exhibited in major cities such as Paris, New York, Venice, London, and San Francisco. She has exhibited at Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello in Venice, Artexpo New York, Halle des Blancs Manteaux in Paris, Matera Casa Cava in Italy, Gallery NAT in London, and CICA Museum in South Korea. Chenglin’s honours include recognitions with the iF Design Award, Creative Communication Awa

Enchanted elements in photography represents reality altered, in other words, bending the world to the whims of our very own imagination. A photographer such as Cheryl Maedar introduces mysterious compositions which are modified by lucid colors of form, such as ominous smoke, playful bubbles, or candy-colored attire as well as props. There is merit in observational and documentative reality. But too much of reality can be quite boring, which is why we appreciate when an imagi

Joao Prosperi is an experimental moving-image artist who has an extensive background in video editing. He was shortlisted for the Sony World Photography Awards in 2019 and he describes his work as “high-impact visual media, combining technical precision with experimentation”. The moving-image works of Joao Prosperi are not narrative-based but rather capture visual fragments and conceptual-conveyance on sensory experiences. His notable works of an untitled reel portraying an a

Mengqi Liu is a mixed-media interdisciplinary artist who has exhibited in the United Kingdom, China, Germany, and the United States. Recent exhibitions include BaseArt Art Fair in Bensberg, Germany, Shanghai Expo Center, Royal College of Art and Gilston Gallery in London, and AS220 Main Gallery as well as the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island. She is a graduate of the Royal College of Art, widely recognized as the finest art school in the world. The in

Gaëtan Changeur is an experimental abstract photographer who has exhibited in France. Recent exhibitions include Withus Gallery, Atelier Gustave, and Galerie M in Paris as well as Media Library in Nice. Gaëtan’s prizes include the B&W International Awards, ReFocus Awards and Chromatic Awards and he has been published by Colorful Magazine and Clast Magazine. In Gaëtan Changeur’s current portfolio, there are three sets of series: Culinary Compressions, Magnetic Fluids, and Liqu

A Crib for Sarah was a performance about the trauma of going through abortion. Performed by Fina Ferrara, the lucid experience engages in several acts through ‘dances of sorrow’. In evocative dance, Fina descends down a staircase and greets a makeshift shrine to her lost never-born child, complete with a physical portrait. She mourns and silently wails throughout the house she acts in. The performance was inspired by a real abortion experienced by the artist, only to suffer g

Victoria Gong is a London-based experimental moving-image artist / director who has been published by KALBLUT Magazine and NOWNESS ASIA as well as won awards with the Athens Fashion Film Festival and ASVOFF (A Shaded View of Fashion Film by Diane Pernet) in Paris. Victoria has screened her video productions at the Venice Biennale, Labelhood & Youtopia in Shanghai, and UBU Art Collective in Seoul. Incorporating contemporary dance, fashion, experimental music, and dream-like se

Todd Neal Jones Jr. is an assemblage and installation artist as well as a curator who has exhibited throughout the United States. Recent solo exhibitions include 934 Gallery in Columbus, Ohio, Diamante Arts and Cultural Center in Raleigh, North Carolina, Gallery 406 at Elon University in North Carolina, and 621 Gallery in Tallahassee, Florida. He has been published by Circle Foundation for the Arts, Tallahassee Democrat, and Columbus Monthly. Todd’s recognitions include the P

Abir Almajed is a text-based artist who has exhibited in Europe and the Middle East. She describes her textual works as “a space to allow her grief to be present, by visualizing elegies or inner-dialogues; she is unafraid to show her vulnerability by intentionally adding elements of imperfections to her work in order to embrace the works, inviting viewers to sit with what is usually unspoken”. These text-based compositions in Abir Almajed’s portfolio are created with paint (w

There is a growing trend by some platforms, especially photography platforms, to label art which is performative as 'sentimental' or 'not grounded in reality'. These same outlets also urge artists to 'practice restraint' Hypocritical. An art platform can't claim to accept experimental practices and conceptual art while at the same time urging artists to follow the formulas of the past and 'restrain' themselves. Art cannot be increasingly conceptual without removing restraints

photography by Ed Maximus New Jersey has a long history and tradition of being a welcoming state and embracing rich, diverse cultures. From Ellis Island as an immigration hub during the early half of the 20th century to almost 200 languages spoken across the contemporary state, New Jersey reflects a microcosm of international expression and artistic inclinations. Since 1966, the New Jersey State Council of the Arts has been a symbol and conduit of how the state takes the arts

Natcha Wongchanglaw is a conceptual photographer as well as an installation and performance artist who has exhibited in the United Kingdom, Mexico, and across the United States. Some of her notable exhibitions include Monad Gallery in New York, Leica Gallery in Boston, Museum of Gloucester in the UK, and Noise Box Gallery in Edwardsville, Illinois. Natcha’s awards include The Jeffrey S. Hammer, M.D. Memorial Scholarship, IPE Award from the The Royal Photographic Society, and

Sapphire (Shiyu) Zhang is an analogue digital artist and PhD student at University of Wales Trinity Saint David, studying art and design. She describes her works as emerging “through repeated adjustment, where intuition and control continuously reshape each other. In this way, the technical process is inseparable from the conceptual one: layering becomes a way to think through memory, emotion, and the unstable structure of the self”. The digital art of Sapphire Zhang are actu

Laidric Stevenson is a documentary analogue photographer who has exhibited in the United States, Japan, and Germany. Recent exhibitions include Ogawa Coffee Sakaimachi Nishiki in Kyoto, Decode Gallery in Tucson, Arizona, Studio 1608 in West Palm Beach, Florida, The Eclectika in Irving, Texas, The Blank Gallery in Tokyo, BBA Gallery in Berlin, Click! Photography Festival in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Praxis Gallery in Minneapolis. Some Nights I Can’t Sleep is the signature s

An artifact typically acts as a memorial to a civilization and testament to a period of time. But what if the concept of an artifact were to be used as an ‘anti-memorial’ and to instill institutional criticism? Such notions are captured in the conceptual artworks of Luna Qiuwen Lyu, a jewelry designer and interactive installation artist. From sonic waves which traverse space and transmit the chatter of the 20th century recordings in an installation such as A Billion Solitary

Written by Joas Nebe. Valéry Belin (born 1964) experiments with the emotional and cognitive reactions images provoke within viewers, exploring photography and moving images as dominant narrative forces shaping contemporary perception. Photographs occupy public and private spaces ubiquitously; after more than 180 years of technical and cultural evolution, photographic and cinematic imagery follow entrenched narrative grammars established by Hollywood’s production machinery (ge

Damira Tagaeva is a theatrical photographer who has been published in international magazines such as L’attirance, Vigour, Beautica, Malvie. Milan Weekly, 6X Fashion France, 6X Fine Art, Artefo, and Figgi. She was also ranked as one of the top photographers at the 35Awards International competition in 2021. The theatrical photography of Damira Tagaeva can range from mysticism, witchcraft, horror, erotica, fashionable, or highly dramatic. What connects these photographs is a

Luna Qiuwen Lyu is a jewelry designer and interactive installation artist who has exhibited internationally with presentations in Munich Jewellery Week, London Design Festival, the Hunt Museum, and beyond . She has earned quite a few first prize recognitions including with the Goldsmiths' Craftsmanship & Design Awards and is a graduate of the Royal College of Art, widely considered to be the finest art school in the world. Ranging from conceptual jewelry to interactive instal

Yanqing Pan (Cindy) is an organic-matter-based installation artist who has exhibited across the United States as well as in Italy and China. Recent exhibitions include Cranbrook Art Museum, Forum Gallery, and Passageway Gallery in Bloomfields, Michigan, In/Out/Of in Detroit, and Ducal Chapel of Palazzo Farnese in Piacenza, Italy. She has conducted lectures at The College for Creative Studies in Detroit and DeSalle Auditorium in Bloomfield Hills. Her works are in the special c