Ignored 1, Ignored 2 & Deconstruction

Digital collage and painting

30 x 30 cm

2023

Zohra Mrad blends open-source media with manual techniques like stop-motion, engraving, and painting to investigate the intersection of human experience, texture, and technology. Her abstract and highly contrasted visuals are thoughtfully adapted to various mediums, often incorporating real-time data, math, typography, and imagery. Her works include digital collages and combine photography, painting, and typography manipulation, as well as Deconstruction.

Life I & Life II

Graphite on paper

30 x 30 cm

2022

Sara Alves' artworks, Life I and Life II, celebrate the spiritual, psychological, and social complexity of human beings. Life I focuses on children and our future, while Life II symbolically associates humans with nature and the ephemerality and beauty of a flower, emphasizing the hidden light and potential each person carries through light and shadow play. Both pieces showcasing the unseen interior light and potential that humans silently carry.

Urban Palimpsest I
Mixed technique

28 x 42 cm

2022

Urban Palimpsest II & Urban Palimpsest III
Mixed technique

22 x 42cm

2022

Fatima Benhamza's project "What remains of Al Balad" is a graphic project and ongoing research that aims to map and document the non-tangible transformations occurring in Jeddah's historical district, Al Balad. The project addresses issues of urban redevelopment and the ambiguous relationship between "traditional" and "contemporary" in the city, resulting in a series of architectural drawings as maps and collages.

The Void I & II

Oil on canvas

120 x 80 cm

2022

Through her paintings, Yelena aims to contemplate and document the diversity and interconnectedness of life while expressing her thoughts, reflections, experiences, and knowledge, and making her inner world visible. For this work, she draws inspiration from Japanese No Theater masks and the idea of pre-existential emptiness, which she sees as a way to explore the intangible emotions and thoughts that we carry within us. In her view, painting is a means of visualizing these inner worlds and offering an alternative perspective on ourselves.

Genotypic mutation MZ3331 & MZ3432

Graphics, Intaglio, Drypoint, Corundum

100x70 cm
2021

Marek Zajko creates unique and provocative portraits using graphic means of expression like exaggeration, transformation, and deformation. He records universal human faces, providing a fresh perspective on the human experience. For Zajko, graphic portraiture is not only a representation of reality but also an opportunity for self-reflection and artistic exploration, reflecting his personal vision of the human condition and exploring the depths of the human soul.

Misty landscape & Pandora

Digital collage

100 x 140 cm

2022

Brut Carniollus's artwork "Misty landscape & Pandora" showcase his reductional, deconstructional, and minimalist approach, which often involves mixing portraiture, urban landscape, geometric, and abstract art in a single collage. Carniollus's creative process typically starts with a single photograph or line of code, which serves as the foundation for his work. He may crop and convert the image to black and white, or incorporate other imagery from public sources or his past works.

Escape

Oil on canvas

200 x 120 Cm

2022

The painting by Delta N.A., explores the sense of freedom and the allure of unseen places. The canvas is a testament to the duo's unique artistic collaboration, showcasing their ability to merge their individual styles seamlessly. The vibrant colors and intricate details draw the viewer in, inviting them to immerse themselves in a world of boundless possibilities. The painting reminds us of the beauty of taking risks and pursuing the unknown, of breaking free from limitations and exploring new horizons.

Biwat Mask, Pumbu Mask, Rabual Mask & Hunter Mask
Pencils, graphite and ink on paper

35 × 35 cm
2023

Mohamed Samy Saqr’s Festima project captures the mystery and inspiration of African culture through the intricate details of a hand-drawn mask. Using pencils, graphite, and ink on paper, the artist explores the symbolism and spirituality behind African masks, which hold a significant place in tribal rituals and beliefs. The artworks invites the viewer to contemplate the unseen world of spirits and the role of masks in connecting with these supernatural forces.

Unparallel thoughts 11

Watercolour and Ink

40 x 40 cm

2022

Mohanty Bibhu Ranjan's work explores the journey of life through his own self-portrait and the use of lines, forms, shapes, texture, and colors. Inspired by nature and his surroundings, his pieces take on a dreamy, fairy tale-like quality. He seeks to capture the unseen and the unique, the thoughts and emotions that cannot be described in words but can only be felt. His work, "Unparallel Thoughts 11", delves into the idea of the unknown and the subconscious, expressed through the use of watercolor and ink.

COMA GCS 3, 4 & COMA VI

Monotype, Digital print

80 x 150 cm

2014, 2015, 2020

RECONSTRUCTION I

Own technique

220x110cm

2020

Beata Króliczak-Zajko's artworks are deeply connected to the human condition, exploring themes of pain, suffering, sexuality, and corporeality. Her COMA series, created over several years, delves into the unseen part of life - death. Through monotype and digital print techniques, she creates figures, signs, and visions that are incomplete and fragmentary, inviting the viewer to delve deeper and uncover their artistic ambiguities and semantic mysteries.

COMA GCS 3, 4 & COMA VI

Monotype, Digital print

80 x 150 cm

2014, 2015, 2020

RECONSTRUCTION I

Own technique

220x110cm

2020

Un - titled

Ink on paper

273 x 116 cm

2022

Unseen

Ink on paper

110 x 75 cm

2023

Flow

Ink on paper

84 x 60 cm

2023

Christina Shiakola's ink on paper artworks explore the relationship between text and image, as well as light and darkness. In "Unseen", she challenges the power of words and their ability to create images. The limits of the printed area symbolize the only not negotiable thing in life, death. In "Flow", Shiakola visually represents the constant contrast and contradiction between light and darkness. Her work also includes a focus on the interpretation of space through paper size, text, and typography.

Thé premier

Mixed media with acrylic on canvas, newspaper, tarpaulin, and thrifted materials

100 x 100cm

2023

Daouda Traore’s mixed media works explore identity and everyday life in Mali. Using materials found in his environment, such as textiles, metal, and cans, he creates unexpected textures that animate his characters and scenes. His paintings are dominated by earthy tones, reflecting the Sahelian landscape. He often includes scattered letters in his work, composing "unreadable poetry" that conveys the importance of education and knowledge transmission. Through his art, Traore offers a glimpse into his community's daily struggles and hopes, inspired by the lively social gatherings known as "grin" in Mali.

Dividing Lines X, XI & XII

Drawing

240 x 120 cm

2021

Emmanuel Rodriguez-Mazon's work focuses on the relationship between space and memory, particularly in regards to the concept of the wall and its ability to restrict and prohibit. Through various media, he explores the layers that make up our urban environment and seeks to build a metaphorical language that relates to fundamental architectural concepts.

La bécane bleu de papa

Mixed media with acrylic on canvas, tarpaulin, bag, newspaper, wool thread, and thrifted materials

135 x 135 cm

2023

Alter ego

Acrylic on canvas

120 x 80 cm

2021

De l'inconvénient d'être né

Acrylic on canvas

80 x 80 cm

2019

Emna Kahouaji's artistic approach is centered around the idea of creating a personal universe where the subconscious and imagination are set free without being hindered by rationality. Her method is similar to the surrealist "cadavre-exquis," which involves collecting fragments, bits, and remains of dreams to reformulate and translate them into painting. Kahouaji's technique is a liberation of the unconscious, allowing her to discover the invisible and bring it to life through her art.

De l’incertitude

Analog photography

30 x 42 cm

2020

« Les poèmes ont toujours de grandes marges blanches, de grandes marges de silence où la mémoire ardente se consume pour recréer un

délire sans passé. » Paul Eluard – Donner à voir

Materia Prima

130 x 100 cm

Cement, concrete, oil painting

2023

Hani Amra's work is a process of gradual abstraction, tajrid, using everyday construction material on the surface of a stretched canvas. As parts of the original construction are carved away or extracted from the canvas, with a chisel and a hammer, something arises. He introduces Sufi concepts to decode his process of creation, including the idea of gradual abstraction, Tajrid in Arabic, which is the process of peeling the onion of the ego, and the gradual carving away of the materials applied on the canvas itself.

Blind Spot I & Blind Spot II

Screen print, Ink on paper

40 x 40cm
2023

Elaine Crowe's Blind Spot series represents traumatic landscapes of personal memory as blind spots that suggest the capacity of landscape to hold memories experienced in the imagination. Blind Spot I and Blind Spot II are hand-pulled screen prints that use color layering to create a partially defined landscape resonating with the vagueness of memory.

Dividing Lines X, XI & XII

Drawing

240 x 120 cm

2021

Ophelia & Voodoo

Analogue photography

130 х 60 cm

2014

Van O (Ivan Isaev) brings together his background in entomology, theater, and design to create striking and dynamic photographs. He employs analogue photography and wide film to capture movement and transformation of his subjects, even in seemingly static genres like still life. He incorporates multi-exposure and collaged images, including scientific and technical diagrams, to add depth and texture.