Thursday 8th – 14th December 2022

Closes Wednesday 14th
2pm

Private View – Wednesday 7th December
6 – 9.30pm

Opening hours
12 – 6pm
or viewing by appointment

Yixuan Bai
Yixuan Bai (b.1999) Visual artist based in Beijing, currently lives and studies in London. She specialises in photography, moving images and multiple medium, within the theme of self-identity, emotions, sociology and modern life. She is seeking the emotional resonance between individuals and the collective, while reflecting on the self in her art practice. She is currently a MA candidate of the Royal College of Art.

Dian Cheng
Dian Cheng is a London-based photographer currently studying towards her Master’s degree in Arts at the Royal College of Art.
Dian’s work uses photography as the primary medium to explore the unnoticed political metaphors of images in contemporary society and how they influence popular consciousness.

Xiangyu Dong
Born in Anhui, China, Xiangyu Dong grew up in a traditional Chinese family. He went to the U.S. in 2017 and received his bachelor’s degree of Visual Arts (media) from the University of California, San Diego. His photography practice started from then. He is currently based in London and studying at Royal College of Art.
His works have been exhibited at Adam D. Kamil Gallery, San Diego in 2020, Hefei Contemporary Art Museum in 2021. In the same year, he also attended the 100 Impressions Group Exhibition in China and Every Where You Go Group Exhibition in London. He got honourable mention in 2020’s International Photography Award.

Toma Gerzha
Toma Gerzha was born in Moscow, Russia. She grew up in Moscow, Kolchugino, Lukhovitsy, and still speaks Russian language. Her family moved to the Netherlands in 2009.
She has successfully completed her photography studies at the Nederlandse Academie voor Beeldcreatie in 2019.
Gerzha first gained public notice with her solo-exhibition “Nameless people, nameless country” (2022), at C-LAB Art Gallery in Amsterdam. The show included a series of photographs of teenagers in the post-Soviet space taken a few months before the war in Ukraine. The exhibition was included in the Amsterdam Art Guide at iamsterdam.com. Toma Gerzha currently lives and works in London. “

Saba Giani
Saba Giani is a visual artist; her work is influenced by experiences of living and growing up in Iran before having to flee from her homeland due to political oppression. In the past she has lived and worked in Canada, Middle East and Europe and her work has been purchased by public galleries such as The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto, Canada. She holds an MFA in fine art from Goldsmiths, University of London and her work has been exhibited internationally at Power Plant Contemporary, Toronto, Giardino dell’Orticultura, Florence, Ryerson Artspace at Gladstone, Toronto, and D Contemporary, London.

Mack Gingles
Mack Gingles was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. His narrative paintings have been exhibited widely across the United States and abroad. His work has been shown in the Museum of Modern Fine Arts in Belarus, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Macedonia, the Cvijeta Zuzoric in Serbia, and the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art Museum in South Korea. He was also selected by the London Celeste Prize and through publication in the circulated New American Paintings. He teaches at Baylor University where he is an Associate Professor of Art.

Duoduo Huang
Duoduo graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts and postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Art. She prefers working with time-based materials such as print, performance, video and installation. With an eye of witness and creator, her works often explore the narrative nature of personal memory and historical archives, provoking a rethinking of intimacy, the psychology of feminism and the humanistic care. Her works have been exhibited in Art Shenzhen 2020, International Academic Printmaking Alliance, ShuxinTangSheng Art Space, SET Gallery(London) and other group exhibitions in art fairs.

Xiaotong Jiang
Xiaotong Jiang regards photography as a way of exploring and communicating with the world which allows the viewer to wander through the world she has created and feel their own joy and loneliness. Her works focus on the connection between people and themselves, with others and with society, combing special output methods and various art forms with traditional photography. Rather than presenting something, she wants to create something new, so that the concept of the work itself can go beyond the content pf the image.

Xiao Ling

Yuhe Liu
Yuhe Liu, was born in 1997, in China. She is currently based in London, studying at the Royal College of art with a major in Sculpture. She received her bachelor’s degree at the Hubei Institute of Fine Art in China. Her works mainly focus on substantial materials and interactive installations right now. Her future studies are rooted in the investigation of ecological things.

Nèfta Poetry
Nèfta Poetry— Stéphanie Melyon-Reinette — is a performer, poet, choreographer, independent scholar (cultural studies, political science, performance studies, Caribbean/American studies) and feminist and curator. Intrinsically, she is a researcher, materializing reflections and catharsis through body and mind. She has been creating live performances in natural settings, video performances and choreographies both as a soloist and with her company ANAMNESIS-K, founded in 2016 shortly after her return to her native archipelago, to quench her thirst for memory. she has been curating the transdisciplinary Cri de Femmes festival since 2011, wherein she also curates exhibitions around gender-based awareness. 

H A Pratama
A mononym of noir/multimedia artist based in Jatinangor-Indonesia. Departing from theater, music, and photography, his works explore an achromatopsia vision that dismantles a concurred illusion based on our perception.
Starting from his college days as a history/humanities student, his line of work has focused on writing and directing; as in music and fiction.

Lilliana Reinoso
Lilliana Reinoso works primarily within ceramics and printmaking to analyze the relationship between colonialism, fascism, and their legacies in contemporary institutions and culture.
In 2020 Lilliana was a recipient of Florida State University’s Idea Grant, which funded her examination of Instagram’s ban on “female presenting” nipples, For Your AI’s only: Exposing the Nipple Ban. In 2021 she completed her Honors Thesis: Reclaiming Restitution: Give it Back!, creating a body of work that addresses the stolen artifacts that remain in museums and  advocates the restitution of cultural patrimony. She is currently exploring the life of artifacts as an SAIC MFA candidate.

Dong Ruan

William Santoleri
William (Lliam) Massimiliano Santoleri was born in Guardiagrele – CH in 1971. His art practice began at l’Accademia di Belle Arti under the guidance of professor Antonio D’Acchille, who is the founder of the neomannerism school in Rome. He subsequently received a degree in History of Art from the university “La Sapienza” in Rome. With a strong obsession with painting and photography, he travels frequently around Europe, spending long periods in the solitude of the woods and mountains of Abruzzi, where he finds inner peace and artistic inspiration through bonding with his land. Walking has been an inexhaustible font for his artistic inspiration. He received awards including Premio Arte, Celeste Prize, DipingEremo and his works have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions. He is a member of the Italian Mountain Guides Association and ADAMstudio11 with Francesca Consigli (2011-2019).

Connor Sewell
Connor Sewell is a British photographer who is interested in problematising the traditions of documentary photography. The camera is a constant companion as Sewell adopts an intuitive approach to image making. Avoiding self-censorship, Sewell interrogates life as it unfolds in front of him in parallel to his own lived experiences. His work contests the nature of photography, whilst meaning is presented as an open-ended question.
Connor Sewell was born in Warboys in the Fenlands in Cambridgeshire (2000), he found photography at the age of 18 when in a darkroom on his artist foundation, since then he has assisted for the Face London magazine.”

Yuqing Shi
Yuqing Shi is interested in the uncertainty and fragility of life, finding the absurd in the seemingly mundane everyday. Connection is what she finds most attractive in everyday life. In her art practice, the connections between individuals jump out of the rigid numbness of perception and proliferate into a way of communicating with the world. Her sensitive nerves are always capturing objects that emanate faint emotions, which makes her believed that these seemingly insignificant objects compose our existence, and that these mundane objects are as much a remedy for dirty air and toxic water as microbes.

Giovanna Giulia Simeoni
Is a multidisciplinary, figurative artist, physicist and dramaturg.
Born in Verona (Italy), she is currently based in Munich (Germany). Her multiform artistic language is the result of an intercultural, interdisciplinary education.  The artistic creation combines a poetical approach to everyday life with a sincere, disenchanted look at social and environmental topics. Some of her artworks look for the thread of a universal meaning that unites beyond all differences and cultures; some other artworks focus on ephemerality, emarginated local realities, transitional feelings, identity, and memory.  “

Xi Wang
Wang Xi ( b. Wuhan, Hubei) is a graduate student of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Philosophy Department) and MA Critical Writing And Curatorial Practice, University of the Arts London. Independent curator, art writer (contemporary philosophy and art research direction), gallerist, artist. He has done curatorial projects in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Monaco, Vatican and other countries.

Amy Wang

Jiayi Wang
Born 1999, Beijing. Artist and photographer based in London and Beijing. She is studying at the Royal College of Art.  She dabbles in cinematography and film production, lighting, environmental design and cultural industry management. As an interdisciplinary artist, she’s interested in characters of light, materials and spatial structure in her art practice. She regards photography as contemporary art that encompasses the active choice of each step in the creation process and an inclusive way of expressing personal emotions and thoughts into the material with more possibilities untapped.

Yudi Wu
I am what Baudelaire called a ‘flâneur’, a person who likes to feel the city I live in, the city and the outside world through walking/wandering and other physical movements. Everything about the city and the outside world affects my psycho-emotional state and I respond to my surroundings and daily activities in response to city life. Using the camera during my wanderings/walks allow me to redigest and reconstruct the visual landscape made up of landscapes, people and objects, and also provide a valuable impetus to my creative work. 

Jianheng Xu
Jianheng Xu is currently creating his artwork mainly through photography and performance. Influenced by his own upbringing and the overwhelming impact of virtual images online, his artworks focus on issues of identity. He uses performances as an important art language to reconstruct the narrative logic of the images and create more space and depth for interpretation.  He is currently studying at the Royal College of Art.

Junzhong Zhao

Hui Zhao

Curated by

Wuchao Feng

Wuchao Feng ( b.1998, Ningbo) is a Chinese artist who currently studies at the Royal College of Art. She received her BFA degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2020. She advocates a new fluid identity through natural metaphors such as water, oyster and fire in her art practice. She’s seeking tranquillity and certainty in the body of water and discussing social relationships through interconnection with nature.
@wuchao_feng

Yue Yin

Yue Yin (b.1997, Jilin, China) is an artist who is currently based in London. He utilizes different art forms to visualize his point of view on multicultural phenomena. During his international journey, he uses such experience to relate his research on the idea of societal discomfort. He has also been involved in the execution of many commissioned large-scale public art projects in various cities in China. Yin is a member of the China Sculpture Institute.
@youkiyin

25 artists from around the world and their recent works, the exhibition reflects their experiments and explorations under the theme of personal perspective through contemporary art.