Asif Shaikh is a text-based digital collage artist and documentary photographer who has exhibited in the United Kingdom. His exhibitions have included Future Foundry in Dover, University for the Creative Arts in Canterbury, and Fox Yard Studio in Stowmarket. Asif has a background in Architecture and Visual Communication. The multidisciplinary works of Asif Shaikh deal with important sociological themes such as environmental pollution and the importance of ecology, as a resul

Textiles are amongst the most misunderstood and underappreciated artforms in contemporary art, precisely because of the fragile and unstable nature of the fiber materials. In the works of Minyu Zhu, a London-based textile artist and graduate from the Royal College of Art, her complex yet fragile structures of textile fragments and installations have cocoon and web-like forms. The basis of Minyu Zhu’s textile works is she creates configurations which accentuate and glorify fra

Crystalle Bobbe is a performance artist who has exhibited and performed in major cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Miami, Paris, London, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Monte Carlo, Geneva, Zurich, Toulouse, and Barcelona. Some recent performances have included the Intercontinental Bienal 2026 at the Museo Nacional da República in Brasília, Brazil, EDO 2026 in Horka nad Moravou, Czech Republic, Meno Parkas Gallery in Kaunas, Lithuania, International Video Art Festiv

The recent performances of performance artist HsinYing Lin entail three works titled Cube Project, Human in the Box, and Train Head. These series of performances focus on themes such as isolation, despair, individual value, and a dichotomy between inner-discovery and outward-seeking. As a result, they build upon previous performances, such as Surrender Project which entails the link between physical and mental pain as well as conceptually conveying self-worth with contemporar

Jacob Carter is an installation artist who has exhibited in the United Kingdom, particularly in the Birmingham and London metropolitan areas. Recent exhibitions include Eagle Works in Wolverhampton, Stryx Gallery and Eastside Projects in Birmingham, Art'otel in London, and LTB Showrooms in Coventry. Utilizing both mechanical function and conceptual form, the works of Jacob Carter convey an unnerving metaphorical disturbance within the confines of assembled form. Utilizing mat

The Nudes of Istanbul is an art book and exhibition at Die Akt Galerie in Berlin. A rare collective fine-art nude photography publication and exhibition from Turkey Fourteen photographers. Three model-authors. Fourteen years of body-based photographic production in Istanbul. An English-language hardcover publication and Berlin exhibition bringing a sustained collective practice into international circulation. "This is the second collective nude art book published in Turkey’s

Peter Treiber is an alternative abstract photographer who has exhibited in the Northeastern United States. Notable solo exhibitions include Rehoboth Art League in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, Pennswood Art Gallery in Newtown, Pennsylvania, Atlantic Gallery in New York, Lehigh Valley Arts and Steel Stacks Gallery in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and Monmouth Beach, New Jersey Cultural Center. Although the artworks may appear to be digital art, they are in fact photographs utilizing a

Molly Dario is a California-based experimental moving-image director / artist whose works deal with dream-like sequences of nihilism and corruption around her protagonists. One such moving-image project would be Hexed is a (Woman) Nightingale Half-Dreamed. Molly describes her approach as exploring “human desires, our current cultures romance with technology, communication to the natural and unnatural, all while denoting symbols to both past and future worlds”. Hexed is a (Wo

Weiyu Lin is a conceptual photographer working with still life, constructed imagery, and photographic installation who has exhibited in the United Kingdom and China. Recent exhibitions include Middlesex University and Filet Space in London, and Guiyang Art Museum in China. His notable recognition includes an exhibition and award from Imageless Dummy Photobook Awards (IDPA) in Hong Kong. The work of Weiyu Lin can primarily be found in three sets of series: Roaming Under the A

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