Jio was born in Dzerzhinsk, Russia, and emigrated with her family to the South of Portugal, where she spent part of adolescence and eventually studied in Lisbonâs prestigious university (Faculdade de Bela-Artes da ULisboa). Even though she still has a strong connection to Portugal, that country did not give the opportunity she deserved to become […]
Category: Experimental
Having been on the road for six years and living in a van for two, Dane perceives âchangeâ as part of his continuous personal growth. Now established in the countryside of Vogt, Germany, where he set up his private studio âAbseits,ââDane loves his natural surroundings (earth, water, fire, air, and space) and reproduces those energies […]
Norwegian photographer Ăystein Aspelund has done an exceptional job capturing the beauty of his region, through the use of projected light, smoke and fire he illuminates warmly these ice-cold landscapes. His temporary installations are a study of colors and shapes as well as the interaction humans have with natural environmentsâAspelund explains: âAiming to create a […]
Artists have been known to stretch the limits of artmaking to limits unimaginable by most of us. Whether itâs punching paint onto the canvas with boxing gloves, preserving animals in formaldehyde and suspending them in glass tanks, using humble needlecraft to represent birth in all its glory, or making elaborate collages out of drugs and […]
Like many new school tattooers, Paul Goodwin (aka âOfflineâ) studied fine arts at university before making the change to becoming a tattoo artist in 2015. He explains that his studies helped him view art in a broader manner and enabled him to express himself deeper and with more sincerity. Goodwinâs abstract blackwork is formed by […]
Javier Gallego Escutia is London-based artist working in photography, film, and (more recently) music. His work is conceptual; rather than documenting the outside world, he focuses on externalizing his inner world. Featured here is a selection of his photography, largely from his âUntitled Portraitsâ series, which involve surreal depictions of the human body. Defying societal […]
These spindly sculpted lifeforms are the work of Moscow-based artist Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov. After studying bioengineering and philology in university, he turned to art as a way of expressing his curiosity and concerns around science, knowledge acquisition, and biological processes. âPoisons Museumâ is a project dedicated to the problem of global information and âinformation that can […]
âEveryone carries a Shadow. And the less it is embodied in the individualâs conscious life, the blacker and denser it is.â These are the wise words of the Ljilja, a mysterious Switzerland-based artist. She is referring to Carl Jung’s conception of the Shadow: the unconscious “dark sideâ of the personality driven by our more unenlightened […]

Jason Chen is a Philadelphia-based artist (and the co-founder of Paradigm Gallery + Studio) who experiments with the âmovement, process, and mutationâ of timeâa.k.a., the âFourth Dimensionââin an innovative process called photo weaving. Using multiple photos of the same subject, each taken within seconds of each other, Chen merges them piece-by-piece. From a distance, the […]

Heather Komus is a Winnipeg-based artist working with embroidery, found objects, plant matter, and animal matter (such as intestines, feathers, and hair) to explore the body as a permeable ecosystem. Fascinated by infestation and infectionâthe way microbes and spores penetrate the skin and colonize organsâher creations are like maps to a subdivided and multiplied body, […]