Wei Wei

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WEI WEI Dizzy websiteInstagram This set of photos was inspired by a virtual game. Is the way we experience games also a reflection of real life?Nowadays, virtual games are becoming more and more real, and people are constantly pursuing perfect picture quality and rich sensory experience. The line between simulation and reality becomes blurred. That’s […]

Diego Moreno

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DIEGO MORENO Melancholy   websiteInstagram Melancholy is a graphic intervention project on my personal archive, through acrylic paint, oil, or graphite, reflecting on the nostalgia of love breakups. Through archival images of couples that I have collected over the years, including my family’s, I revisit the complexity of relationships, where drama, pain, desire, and the […]

Lorena Florio

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LORENA FLORIO Lacerazioni   Instagram In an attempt to create representations of reality without spatial-temporal constraints, my visual research often begins with simple elements that are subjected to various processes, both physical and digital. Through these levels of transformation of the photographed subject, I try to dig deep while considering what is really hiding behind […]

Laura Chen

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LAURA CHEN Words From Dad   websiteInstagram ‘Words From Dad’ is an ongoing series that explores my Dutch-Chinese heritage and identity. With the use of archival images from my own family albums, I trace back my mixed roots through my grandfather’s life stories as told by my dad. I am originally from The Netherlands. I […]

Guillaume Tomasi

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GUILLAUME TOMASI A bloom in the eye of the storm website Instagram How do we grow up in a society that constantly reminds us that our way of life is leading us inexorably to our loss? Through the gaze of a father towards his children, A bloom in the eye of the storm focuses on […]

Cristiano Volk

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Cristiano Volk Laissez-Faire   websiteInstagram Imagine a life lived under the glow of artificial daylight, where reality is not experienced directly, but mediated through screens. Imagine a world so densely networked that all of the distinctions by which we have learned to make sense of time and place – interior and exterior, private and public, […]

Pascal Greco

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PASCAL GRECO Place(s)   websiteInstagram In the continuation of his 2013 project No Cliché, published by Jane & Jeremy, which aimed at conveying an unusual imagery of much-photographed Iceland, Greco had decided on January 2020 to further portray the island. But as the pandemic cut short any perspectives of travelling back, Greco set on a […]

Esther Gabrielle Kersley

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ESTHER GABRIELLE KERSLEY The Fifth Generation   websiteInstagram In 2020 over 100 phone masts were set on fire across Europe, motivated by people believing that 5G – the newest generation of mobile networks – was the cause of Covid-19. These real world acts were fuelled by online conspiracies consumed virtually across the world.Known to thrive […]

Claudia Tombini

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CLAUDIA TOMBINI MoveTo LineTo   websiteInstagram In MoveTo LineTo Claudia Tombini engages her gaze in a questioning of the landscape that oscillates between two complementary needs: the opportunity to trace and elaborate the signs of a memory linked to a place and the opportunity to organise, also through this memory, an inhabitation of the landscape […]

Shi Yan

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SHI YAN Plastic Wings   websiteInstagram Plastic wings are taken from the ancient Greek myth “Dedalus and Icarus”, which is an investigation of the self-positioning of individuals in history. For a period of time after COVID-19, I re-entered the shopping mall in Shanghai and then saw many man-made landscapes. Fragility and permanence, predicament and expectation, […]

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