Liu Liling (b.1993, Singapore) works primarily with the photographic image to explore ideas of duration and experiential aspects of the medium, situating them within and in response to the installation site. In her practice, she engages with various printing processes as a tool to arrive at a new picture plane, often suggesting points of departure, a coming into, and stasis. Essential to the works are visual qualities inherent to the making process, materialising as a build-up of minutiae that foregrounds the work.

Ng Hui Hsien works as an artist, educator, and curator. Through her artworks, she seeks to evoke stillness and wonder, especially towards our inner landscapes and the more-than-human world. Her work is informed by phenomenology, one that sees our bodies as sites of knowledge and one curious about our relations with the living earth.

Susanna Tan is a visual artist, researcher, and producer based in Singapore and Venice. Her interdisciplinary practice threads together plant symbolism, collective memory, and emotions of loss, love, and resilience. Working with text, image, sculpture, and site-responsive installation, she situates plants as intermediaries of human experience. Through archival research, field encounters, and community storytelling, she traces how botanical life holds both personal and cultural emotions across time. Her ongoing project, Sad Plant Index, maps real and imagined species as repositories of human affect across diverse geographies.

Yang Jie is a sculptor who draws inspiration from the intricate world of objects. From familiar household objects to industrial machines, he is fascinated by how things are made and used, excavating stories and ideas from found objects and machines through the traces of use. Using his background in electronics engineering and sculpture, he reinterprets the human experience through mechanical movements and electronics, transforming repaired and found objects into kinetic sculptures that perform. At the core of his exploration lies a fascination with how objects crafted by human hands often take on new and unexpected meanings beyond their original intentions.

Ayaka Yoshida (b.1993) is an artist based in Hiroshima, Japan. Her practice traverses abstraction, embodiment, and memory, often emerging from acts of walking, offering, and repetition. Through installations, performances, and time-based works, Yoshida explores the fluid boundaries between structure and organism, self and environment, presence and absence.

Tamaki Ono (b. 1973) is a visual artist and educator whose practice spans painting, installation, and site-specific projects. He completed his MFA in Painting at Tokyo University of the Arts in 1998 and has taught at Onomichi City University since 2001, where he is currently Professor in the Department of Fine Arts. He founded AIR Onomichi in 2007, an artist-in-residence program that explores new relationships between site, context, and artistic expression, and also serves as Vice Representative Director of the NPO Onomichi Akiyasaisei(Abandoned House Reclamation) Project.

Yumi Nishimura (b. 1989) is a Hiroshima-based painter and educator. Her practice explores a possibility in painting through a tension between narrative and materiality (matière or painting texture). From this exploration, she seeks to create works that are “more than an event but not yet a story” — images in a suspended state, where something is happening yet its meaning remains elusive.

About the curators