“Algorithmic training data is ultimately an accumulation of biases society has repeated for centuries. Algorithmic control and patriarchal control are therefore fundamentally the same”
– Regina Kim
ART & IMAGE: The celebrated Korean artist REGINA KIM is an increasingly name-checked creative force whose hyper-modern surreal vistas invite the viewer to engage in a dance of projection that challenges the invisible scaffolding of social conditioning.
Read our EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with the artist on FUTURISTIC DRAGON to discover the ways in which we are all subliminally guided, and why true agency begins to be re-imagined at the moment art visualises the fractures authority seeks to conceal.
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MARIA KREYN
The American artist on creation myths and tempestuous emotional resonance
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ROBERT MONTGOMERY
The poet artist on hierarchies, radical spiritualism and finding true purpose
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ROBY DWI ANTONO
The Indonesian artist on dream creatures, and creative transcendence
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HALEY JOSEPHS
The American artist on awakening to deeper existence and breaking open the head
“I feel like you can learn a lot from just looking at a cloud formation, from star gazing, or looking at sunset or sunrise” – ˙Haley Josephs
The American artist HALEY JOSEPHS seeks to immerse the viewer in the vast mysteries of being – awakening us from the grey sub-reveries of day-to-day existence to authentic presence in the moment. As such, she opens small portals where acute awareness and sensory perception converge.
Read our full INTERVIEW with the artist on FUTURISTIC DRAGON to discover why she believes the journey from birth to adulthood is positively luminescent no matter what the challenges.
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VON WOLFE
The masterful British painter on reimagining the role of the artist
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ANTONY DALEY
The British artist on exploring the beauty of the cosmos via both art and science
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YIFAN JIANG
The Chinese artist on reality as dreamtime, and why all art contains a kernel of narcissism
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JOSE PARLA
The Cuban abstract artist on the healing energy of light and coming out of a coma
If you look at these works, they're all about a surge of light producing beams of energy. We can't function without that energy – the sun, the light; it's the energy that we have in our body” – Jose Parla
The New York-born Cuban artist JOSE PARLA explores an interplay of form that blends the strange calligraphy of optic nerve stimulation with painterly abstraction, asking us to consider the phenomenological beauty in the unconscious apparatus of being.
Read our full INTERVIEW on FUTURISTIC DRAGON to find out how he was fundamentally changed by a brush with death, and why he has hope that one day the species will transcend beyond a perpetual state of war.
“If the gatekeepers aren’t going to choose you, then you have to put yourself in a position where they will – you have to hack the system you have so that your work is seen” – Gordon Cheung
The British-Chinese artist GORDON CHEUNG dives into the overwhelm of our age and glides fluidly between global economics, art history and cutting-edge tech to reflect on the what it means to be human in the modern era.
.Read our full INTERVIEW with the artist on FUTURISTIC DRAGON to discover work that demystifies the veiled systems that underpin trade, belief, markets and collective memory and renders them into dystopian sci-fi landscapes.
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TOMAKAZU MATSUYAMA
The Japanese artist on cultural conditioning and the importance of hope
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STACEY GILLIAN ABE
The African artist on womanhood and challenging identity tropes
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EMMA STERN
The American artist on feminist tropes, avatars and creating mythical rock stars
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SILKE WEISBACH
The rising german artist on working with living materials and metabolic intimacy
“I’m interested in how our concept of nature has been shaped across different historical and cultural frameworks” – Silke Weisbach
The German artist SILKE WEISBACH employs painting as a laboratory for attending to the ever-shifting ties between living matter and technological intervention, and reminds us that the world we inhabit is made of compounds that communicate, conjoin, and alter one another.
.Read our full INTERVIEW with the artist on FUTURISTIC DRAGON to discover why she proposes art as a practice for leaning into the strange chemical conversations at the root of life..
“II think through losing people, whether that's through separation or through death, you find a way in yourself to deal with impermanence”– Gill Button
The British artist GIL BUTTON deals in melancholy and the beauty of impermanence, creating emotive existential canvases from the flotsam and jetsam of our digital image-heavy era. Her sublime explorations of the human condition are widely celebrated and she has exhibited globally
.Read our full INTERVIEWwith her on FUTURISTIC DRAGON to discover how overcoming despair brought her to the canvas.
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SAM JACKSON
The British artist on classicism and reframing art history for a contemporary audience
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CAO JIGANG
The Chinese artist on Taoism, finding meaning in emptiness and reaching for the sky path
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JIM SHAW
The American artist on suburbia dream logic and the detritus of consumerism
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ABE ODEDINA
The British artist on identity, studying Platonic forms and the magical mundane
"Everything in life is magical … I think of paintings as tools of enchantment; as things that spark off questions” – Abe Odedina
The award-winning architect-turned painter ABE ODEDINA employs his art practice in order to experience the profound in the everyday and find the magical in the small details of existence.
Read our INTERVIEW with the artist on FUTURISTIC DRAGON to discover why His most recent work incorporates ideas from classical philosophy and applies them to the contemporary paradigm.
“I am more connected to the world when I am painting, and even though it is solitary, it doesn’t ever feel lonely”
– Sophie Kipner
The artist SOPHIE KIPNER celebrates sensual connection on surreal canvases that map out her fantasies, but she is equally adept in writing, as her debut novel The Optimist is testament to. Her work in both mediums traces the tender ambiguities of desire with vivid, unsettling clarity.
Read the INTERVIEW on FUTURISTIC DRAGON to find out why she believes every mode of expression is equally important in the pursuit of joy.
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