Cássio Vasconcellos

About Cássio Vasconcellos

Cássio has been a photographer since 1981 and has had his images exhibited over 200 times in twenty countries. Some of his recent exhibitions are “Past/Future/Present: Contemporary Brazilian Art from the Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo”, Phoenix Art Museum (Phoenix, 2017); and “Collectives”, Today Art Museum (TAM), Beijing (2013).
Cássio’s photographs are in Brazil’s main private collections as well in museums such as the MASP – Museu de Arte de São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil), and abroad in the Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris, France) and the Museum of Fine Arts (MFAH, Houston, US)

Hongjie Yang

About Hongjie Yang

Hongjie explores the power of transformation by bringing in a wide range of disciplines into the world of art, design and technology, examining plausible scenarios and their influences on transforming our preconceived perceptions. The designer-artist based in the Netherlands blends fact and fiction, the familiar and uncanny to speak of the increasingly fluid times we find ourselves. Such an approach is informed by his study at the Design Academy Eindhoven, where he received a Master in Contextual Design in 2015

Hiroko Takeda

About Hiroko Takeda

Hiroko was brought up in Japan and trained there in the tradition of the Mingei Undou (Japanese Arts and Crafts Movement). Hiroko’s art and design work has been commissioned by private collectors and leading architects worldwide. Prior to opening her studio in New York, she was senior designer at the Jack Larsen Studio and designer at Kawashima Textile in Tokyo and Kyoto. Hiroko received an MA in Constructed Textiles from the Royal College of Art in London. She has received the International Textile Award in Tokyo, the ICFF Editors Award for craftsmanship, and the Jack Larsen Contemporary Textile Award

Jose Dávila

About Jose Dávila

For more than two decades, Jose Dávila (b. 1974, Guadalajara, México) has been working in the sculptural field, creating works that bring together materials in precarious compositions. Dávila challenges the viewer to face the elements and construction of the work from different perspectives, observing how they are capable of making rawness and fragility coexist, as well as organic and artificial form, system and chaos, danger, and peace. His work has been exhibited at Yuz Museum, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Marfa Contemporary, and Museum Voorlinden, among others

FAHR 021.3

FAHR 021.3

FAHR 021.3 was founded by Filipa Frois Almeida and Hugo Reis in 2012 in Porto, Portugal. They are an internationally awarded creative and experimental studio, which (un)focuses its work between Art and Architecture. Derived from the German word Erfahrung (experience), FAHR 021.3 stands up as a lab studio developing conceptual strategies on the brink of unexpected, contradiction, and decontextualisation

Pamela Longobardi

About Pamela Longobardi

Pamela Longobardi is an eminent figure at the crossroads of artistry and activism, celebrated for her unwavering commitment to combatting the widespread menace of marine plastic pollution. Her achievements encompass the esteemed Hudgens Prize and a distinguished professorship at Georgia State University. Longobardi’s creations have adorned the pages of internationally renowned publications like National Geographic and Sierra Magazine, as well as exhibitions, galleries, museums, and public spaces worldwide

Sassan Behnam-Bakhtiar

About Sassan Behnam-Bakhtiar

Sassan Behnam-Bakhtiar is a French-Iranian contemporary artist, born in Paris in 1984. His signature style of peinture raclée, or scraped painting, involves intricate scraping, relaying and spreading of numerous blends over particular points. For the artist, these represent layers of energy, feelings and time. Sassan’s most recent works have been shown worldwide including solo exhibitions at Phillips London, Sotheby’s in the Principality of Monaco, Dusseldorf’s Setareh Gallery, London’s Saatchi Gallery and at the historic Villa Santo Sospir in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat