Airco Caravan, as a conceptual artist, painter, activist, and feminist, sends a message through art. Airco wants to make people think and make the world a better place, using artists' tools like paintings, projects, installations, and fundraiser exhibitions. All kinds of resources are used, from statues in public places to Chinese paintings, from silicon fetuses to her own hair. Her work questions our awareness and convictions about race, religion, gender, and the boundaries that separate freedom and oppression, love and hate, life and death. She never avoids the risk of crossing a line. Political issues, crazy facts, women's rights, and human rights are her starting point. The innocent and sometimes provocative artworks have a twist or deeper meaning, leaving the interpretation up to the viewer.

 

Cambodian artist Kanitha Tith has to feel it. She works slowly, and preferably with a quiet mind. Paradoxically, she chooses steel wire as material for her sculptures: She coils it tightly around a small rod, resulting in something similar to the spring of ballpoint pen-just as thin, but excessively long. She favors an intuitive approach, in which she allows the material to find its own form through her fingers. This year, she started making drawings in which she collaborates, as it were, with the wire sculpture. Again, intuition plays a major role. She allows the sculptures to find their way across large sheets of paper on the ground, the paint leaving an imprint of their movements.

 

Yiyi Chen asks the question “what is it for us to be?” through her practice of painting. Due to her inborn nature, she feels deeply connected to the spontaneous and insignificant moments in life. For her, in those moments, the sense of being is rooted. The world is revealed as it is in her distant view, unembellished and un-staged. She wrote: “and I also believe the concealed hides in the mundane that are exemplified by the randomness and trivialness of life, disclosed as such, for the everyday reality essentially consists of the uncontrived fragments of our being”.

Hence, she sits and observes, randomly photographs her daily encounters, capturing the insignificant and the ordinary. Based on those pictures she paints, projecting her view of reality. On her canvas, there would be shadows cast on the ground, obscure screenshots of a video call, or images of everyday objects, surroundings and human beings... Both her early and later works create an atmosphere. Though in different visual languages, they share a sense of stillness that accentuates a theme - the silent existence of an object, a scene or a moment.