A Conversation with Artist HANNA JENNINGS

Exploring ideas, art and the creative process connects me to people and the way they feel. I'd love to express togetherness through individuality. Like each person, each piece is unique alone, but when collaged all together, it makes something beautiful, like a more unified world, comprised of stories and reflections of "soul" the perhaps others might relate to. Art creates a less shallow relationship between you, the artist, and the viewer. I am an empath and feel deeply about people, places, and the art they bring to the table. I really love hearing about cultures, personal experiences, and how people create in order to communicate, when sometimes words have a hard time doing it. I love how a bunch of people can all be staring at one painting, but have separate experiences, but at the same time, can come together to share and learn to understand one another from a more intimate perspective.

A Conversation with Artist SEBASTIÁN ESPEJO

I was born in Viña del Mar, Chile. Its influence is so strong that I can hardly distinguish anything that escapes it. I’m still the child climbing the tree, looking at the Pacific Ocean through the leaves. Art has always been a tool for building my own subjectivity; for me, and for others. 
I never fell in love with it—it was always there, before me.  The importance of art lies in attention and the sharing of experiences.

Exploring Reverse Perspectives with Artist PATRICK HUGHES

I hope people wonder why it is that my work seems to move when it does not move, it is the seer who moves and transfers their movement on to the art. I am expressing my understanding that reality is paradoxical, that change is the essence of life, so that the viewer will notice that their experience in front of my art will relate to their experience of overall reality. We create illusions and take them for life.

A Conversation with Artist ABDULNASSER GHAREM

I’m currently working on a project titled The Healthy Sin (Aniconism),. This work addresses my personal and cultural journey navigating the strict religious and social prohibitions against depicting ensouled beings in Saudi Arabia. It explores the complex tension between faith, state control, and artistic expression that has shaped my life and practice. The project consists of a multi-layered installation combining video, sound, and painting. It documents my early experience as a child instructed to deface illustrations in schoolbooks, the silent conflict between government modernization and religious conservatism, and my later act of resistance by organizing a covert live drawing session using a disassembled and smuggled mannequin.

A Conversation with Artist JON JOANIS

I was always pretty serious about music and have worked as a musician in some capacity since I was around 14. For me, the disciplines, although differing in skill sets, occupy almost the same mental and emotional space. Also, I learned (and continue to learn) about harmony and composition in art and music almost synchronistically and simultaneously. But where the inspiration comes from in the desire to be connected to these worlds is harder to locate.

A Conversation with Artist DELPHINE LEBOURGEOIS

Nature was very much part of my upbringing. I spent most of my teenage years exploring the surroundings of my grand-paren’s house in rural Auvergne. A few years ago, I did an installation where I placed large cardboard cutouts of my Amazonians in a remote forest in France. The installation was hidden, away from touristic trails and not signed posted. I wanted passers by to see it by chance rather than people searching for it. The cut outs were made from recycled cardboard so extremely fragile and prone to quick degradation. The project had to be ecological and ephemeral.
Art about nature or in nature holds a particular place for me. I remember loving “My Back to Nature” the exhibition by George Shaw at the National Gallery in London, and more recently got the same awe whilst visiting “Light into Life” by Mark Quinn at Kew Gardens.
Sustainability is important but paradoxically beauty is everywhere… in decay, in a plastic bag stuck in a tree, even in garbage. This is why I liked George Shaw’s exhibition so much. He painted woodlands with traces that humans have left behind. Dirty mattresses, soiled duvets hanging from branches. His mastery as a painter made the objects nearly sacred. I don’t think art should be sanitised.

A Conversation with Artist SONJA KEPPLER

For me, art is a universal language that connects cultures. It can be beautiful, it can also be strange and comical, or provocative. Art is versatile and surprising. I was born and raised in Pforzheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. I still live and work here today. My parents and grandparents had a few gardens, so I spent a lot of time outdoors and learned a lot about it. My great-aunt was a jewelry designer and collected many objects from different cultures, such as ritual objects, shadow puppets from Java, and African masks.

A Conversation with Artist BÉRÉNICE GAÇA COURTIN

I want people to feel like they have a real impact on the work they are observing and they become part of the work themselves. I really enjoy the interaction with a public in my arts. In this previous exhibition, I was inviting people to think about a symbol of resistance inspired by my own story and my work where I invent an alphabet of resistance. I gathered the symbols and wove them live for the finer. I gave the weaving to the museum of here afterwards as well as a typography for the inhabitants. I am trying to talk about a social fabric within my works and that’s why the contact with people is important always mysterious as well as open and enriching.

A Conversation with Artist HSIN HWANG

 I was born and raised in Chiayi, a small city in southern Taiwan near the sacred Alishan mountain range. The area is not only known for its misty forests and sunrise views, but also as the homeland of Indigenous communities, whose culture and animistic beliefs deeply shaped my imagination as a child. Growing up surrounded by temple festivals, oral folklore, and Indigenous stories, I became attuned to the invisible layers of meaning in everyday life—rituals, symbols, and the presence of the spiritual in the natural world. This early exposure continues to influence my artistic practice, which often explores mythology, belief systems, and the feminine through a cross-cultural and symbolic lens.