ALEXANDER GLASS
Born in 1991, Alexander Glass lives and works in London, UK. Glass’s work delves into the culture surrounding sports, in particular water sports. He uses this as a reference to specific spaces, and its use in visual culture generally. He creates balances between pleasure, homoerotica and danger. Dive in The Swimming Pool is a potent cultural image. Ian Gordon attributes its resonance, to the fact that ‘everyone has... had the experience of swimming in a public pool, ...be it warming or chilling, happy or (often) humiliating’ .
RONI HORN
Artist Roni Horn, has established her artistic career in the late 1980s after exhibiting in both Paula Cooper Gallery and Leo Castelli Gallery in New York. Today, her works are in the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Kunstmuseum Basel, and The Museum of Modern Art in New York, among others. Horn lives and works between New York, NY and Reykjavik, Iceland. In Saying Water (The River Thames, for Example), Horn performs a 38 minute monologue reading from her writings on water.
FÉLICIE KERTUDO
French artist Félicie Kertudo lives and works in London, UK. Currently focusing on ‘Hydrofeminism’ (Neimanis, 2017), transforming her research to visual display, using textiles as her main material. Bodies of Water, is a series of five digital photographic close- ups, of human body parts and organic elements around the Kenwood Ladies' Pond in the UK, printed on Chiffon fabrics. The fabric is displayed as curtains, emphasizing the safety and protection formed by Nature around the Ladies Pond area. Uniquely providing the pond and meadows with impenetrable and exclusive space, used strictly by self-defined women. The stream that flows into the Ladies Pond comes from a public reservoir, and gets hidden by the trees after passing through its gates.
HADAR MITZ
Israeli artist Hadar Mitz, based in Tel Aviv, graduated in 2015 with a B.Ed. in Art and Education at The Hamidrasha Faculty of Arts in Beit Ber. Her interest is in the tension between nature as we know it and the human attempt to enforce order, with the failure inherent to it. Mitz believes we experience nature as being dynamic, always in motion, an ongoing process. Using the mediums of collage, assemblage, drawing and video, she works in two different strategies, converging a dynamic catalogue, conveying experiences of reality.
PIERRE PAUZE
Born in 1990, Pierre Pauze lives and works in Paris, France. Pauze composes an aesthetics which puts in relation various actors connected to the world of water. He connects scientific facts with ancestral traditions that deal with water and rituals in order to create a symbolism through ages and cultures. His work shows the connection water can make between the sky and earth, entering into the essentials of the ground life and the cosmos.
KIM TSCHANG-YEUL
Born in 1929 in Maengsan, Korea, Kim Tschang-Yeul was a pre- eminent figure in contemporary art. In the mid 1950s he founded the Korean Art Informel movement. A decade later he relocated to New York, after which he ended up in Paris. Through his interaction with international artistic movements, he began exploring liquid forms. Known for his painted depictions of water droplets, a motif steaming from Eastern Philosophy, these works provided him with a therapeutic process and a meditation on eternity.
YAN ZHUANG
Chinese artist Yan Zhuang was born in Chaozhou, Guangdong in 1991. In 2018 she graduated from from Post-Graduate studies in Fine Art Painting at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts.
By using a medley of climates and cultures, Zhuang’s paintings transport the viewer to both real and fantastical environments. She draws her inspiration from nature, focusing on water as the main feature in her paintings.
