Ashes, Acrylic & oil on canvas, 100 x 130 cm

Dust, Acrylic & oil on canvas, 100 x 130 cm

Yian Chen is a painter who deals with questions of identity recognition and personal connection with nature and society. He explores the existence and different processes of life and growth, focusing on emotion and loneliness. He maintains an emotional extension between different works while avoiding fixed narratives. He is constantly dealing with the relationship between himself and the world around him.

Sunrise Labour Sunset (2020)

Agrounia1: Traitors of the Countryside (2020)

Paweł Dziadur is a multi–disciplinary artist born in Krakow, Poland, currently living and working in London. His practice tends to juggle humour and and critical commitment and his main line of work involves new media art and technological art installations, often joined together by custom programming. His recent series of artwork and research went into interrogating a few topics: the theme of labour under post-Fordism relating to debate relevant in renegotiating the position of the artist today, relationship between technology, individuation and power; post–truth and the rise of the far–right.

Grand–Mère, 2021

Grand–Mère, 2021, is a piece collecting (almost) every occurence of floral patterns and flowers of Krebs grand-mother Yvette’s flat. He started collecting these botanical details during a self–organised grandma residency in Strasbourg. The colourful patterns on towels, plates, tea cups, curtains, carpets, were in great contrast with traumatic memories his grand–mother was sharing with him at the time. This digital collage condenses the symbolic healing and protective energy of every flower in his grand–mother’s life. It is part of a larger body of work exploring the relationship between transgenerational trauma, flowers and queerness.

Integrated Shadow, Acrylic on canvas, 100 cm x 100 cm

Her work evolves across the fields of paintings and photography by developing a visual language of abstract forms found in elements of architecture and graffiti. Her paintings are inspired by the urban environment and investigate the visual experience of colour, light, space and architecture. The work deals with the exploration of colour through continuous repetition and experimentation, and how colour changes through placement, juxtaposition and interaction with other colours.

How about Swimming Inside?, Video, 2min08sec

The video is about the experience of falling into a bottomless space between online and offline during the lockdown. Through the artist subconscious, drifting from digital screens to reality, she is searching for stimulation and therapies. She is asking, according to the satellite, if she is walking from Brockley to New Cross, or is it just an event on google map?

Eidola 34, oil on canvas, 95x70cm, 2020

Eidola 35, oil on canvas, 95x70cm, 2020

In the Eidola series, Schauser uses sections of photos as reference and focus on mediation, scale, with an element of a perceptive delay. The series explores figuration and abstraction. The discussion happens in the tension between painting and photography — subjects are studied in close–up and blown up as to capture a glimpse of the universe.

This series is the beginning of translating science into classic painting: scientific modelling works with scale, space and time, and models a kind of behaviour.

Space Between Us, digital print on paper, 70x90cm

Space between us suggests certain distances. Is it about those among people; mutual detachment and separation with the breezing feeling of void and emptiness intensified by the ongoing pandemic, or between the physical and the digital features? Perhaps it speaks of a distinction between hand–made paintings and mechanically produced prints or of an actual distance between two people having a long–distance relationship. Whether the artwork alludes to a literal or metaphorical gap is the viewer’s decision to make.

Eidola 34, oil on canvas, 95x70cm, 2020

Eidola 35, oil on canvas, 95x70cm, 2020

Kirsten Schauser (born in 1964) is a visual artist with a dual Danish and German heritage, lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark and London, UK, and is also in possession of a background as educated PhD in veterinary science. Schauser is member of the art group DeV+ and has participated in several group and solo exhibitions in Denmark and abroad. In 2021 her work will be featured in Proposition Studios, London, UK and in solo exhibitions in 2022 and 2023 in Denmark and Germany, respectively.

The main focus of her painting practice is mediation. She works with the transformation from the media of photography or film to the media of painting; often from analogue to digital to textured oil paintings. Through the applied painting technique, she explores reality as illusion and work with the element of a perceptive delay. In addition, another focus is the relationship between figure and ground; representation and abstraction. Schauser paints mainly with oil on canvas, with an idea-based practice – typically with series. In the latest Eidola series, she aims to translate scientific works modelling a kind of behavior into classic painting. She painterly explore the perception of something being there and not being there simultaneously like quantum physics.

How about Swimming Inside? 2min08sec HD video with sound, 2020

The video is about the experience of falling into a boundaryless space between online and offline during the lockdown, through my subconscious drifting from digital screens to reality, searching for stimulation and therapies… According to the satellite, am I walking from Brockley to New Cross, or it’s more an 1.3 mile event on google map?