New York-based artist Tasneem Sarkez’s works amalgamate the personal with the universal, informed by an aesthetic she describes as “Arab kitsch.” Her multidisciplinary practice weaves together symbols from pop culture with historical traditions, forming a visual tapestry that speaks to her lived experience as an Arab woman existing in the diaspora. Through her investigations, Sarkez…
Step into the world of Steph Huang, the London-based Taiwanese artist whose poetic practice traverses diverse techniques and media, from glass blowing and bronze casting, to filmmaking and sound. Born in 1990 in Taiwan, Huang’s work draws on autobiographical narratives and traditions of storytelling, underscoring the eccentricities of everyday life. Currently the subject of Art…
Writer-director Pelin Keskin Liu’s debut short film Three Meals is a masterful portrait of the complexities, tensions and generational misunderstandings at the core of a relationship between a mother and daughter living very different lives. Yasmin and Suzy live apart – a metaphor for their having grown apart – but in the film they come together. Three…
When the filmmaker Elizabeth Ai was pregnant, she found herself scouring through old family albums, looking for something from her own childhood which she could share with her daughter in a couple of years. That’s when she chanced upon photographs of her uncles and aunts in Orange County, listening to New Wave in the ‘80s…
Working across video, photography, sculpture, and sound, Paul Pfeiffer’s multidisciplinary practice interrogates themes of spectacle, belonging, and difference. Born in Honolulu and based in New York, the artist spent much of his childhood in the Philippines—affording him a broader and transnational perspective on American identity. For over 25 years, he has utilised early digital editing…
Paris-based artist Ndayé Kouagou’s cross-disciplinary works evolve from self-authored texts, which serve as a launch pad to explore themes of unease, power, and vulnerability. His meandering output spans performance, film, textiles, sculpture, and installation—often probing the aphoristic language of self-help gurus and online influencers. The artist’s work has recently been shown at major institutions including…
Born in Seoul and raised in the UK from a young age, Sang Woo Kim probes the tensions and fragmentation of identity lived by many first-generation immigrants. Carefully navigating a space of cultural duality, Kim’s self-portraits explore his experiences as a Korean man coming of age in British society. Through close-cropped compositions and varied textures—ranging…
Welsh conceptual artist Cerith Wyn Evans first came to attention in the 1980s as an experimental filmmaker, often collaborating with dancers and performers during this period. Today best known for his sculptures and site-specific installations, his works draw from a rich trove of references, spanning literature, music, philosophy, photography, poetry, art history and science. Employing…