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Ju Ting: Depth beneath the epidermis

Ju Ting constructs monumental pictorial architectures by layering dozens of coats of acrylic on wooden panels, then incises, tears, or strikes them to reveal the buried chromatic complexity. This Beijing-based artist explores the relationships between surface and structure, accumulation and destruction, concealment and unveiling.

Chen Jia: Dancing with the brush

Chen Jia practices calligraphy and landscape painting according to traditional Chinese disciplines. Trained by meticulous copying of ancient masters, he combines in his work the expressive power of monumental landscapes and theoretical rigor. His compositions manifest that rare quality where movement inhabits stillness.

Chase Hall: Coffee, cotton, and hybridity

Chase Hall, a self-taught American painter, creates portraits using Ethiopian coffee and raw cotton canvas. His works question mixed-race identity and the representation of Blackness in the United States. By leaving blank spaces in his compositions, he materializes the complexity of existing between multiple racial and cultural worlds simultaneously.

Nikola Vudrag: Forging the Myth in Steel

Nikola Vudrag sculpts Corten steel to materialize ancient myths through monumental works that combine geometric rigor and symbolic depth. His public interventions, from Venice to Malta, reinterpret the figures of Atlas, Prometheus, and Heracles by questioning our contemporary relationship with form, light, and tradition.

Emmanuel Taku and his Ghanaian demigods

Emmanuel Taku, a Ghanaian artist based in Accra, creates monumental portraits where black bodies become demigods with white eyes, dressed in sumptuous screen-printed fabrics. His canvases erect a metaphorical temple of blackness, reinventing the codes of representation through an aesthetic of collective veneration and visual sovereignty.