Abbie Wilson

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Mengzhui Li’s Mother-Daughter is a quiet reckoning — a gentle, complex exploration of the emotional geographies of the mother-daughter relationship, particularly within the specific parameters that exist among only-child families in East Asian cultural contexts. Mutual Disconnect offers a quiet reckoning—a gentle, complex look at the emotional landscape of the mother-daughter relationship, especially within the unique dynamics of only-child families in East Asian cultural contexts.

1 week ago | ourculturemag.com | Abbie Wilson

Ruonan Shen’s “Dreamland” series is a fascinating study of a strained yet fragile relationship between the artificial constructs of humanity and the natural forces that rule our natural world. This series of long-exposure photographs, which comes from the Hequ Village farming areas of Pingshan County, Hebei Province, China, is a poetic conversation between the physical and the spiritual, stillness and movement, reality and surrealism.

1 week ago | ourculturemag.com | Abbie Wilson

Jingyun Guan (b. 2001) is a Chinese artist based in London. Since beginning their practice in 2019, they have moved fluidly across media, evolving from photography into fine art. Their 2024 series marks a significant point in their creative trajectory, offering a deeply personal yet theoretically engaged body of work. Here, Guan transforms personal trauma into artistic expression, exploring body politics, gender identity, and cultural belonging with a distinctly poetic sensibility.

1 week ago | ourculturemag.com | Abbie Wilson

Lin Ye is an illustrator bridging continents and emotional worlds. Originally from China and now based in London, she works at the intersection of culture, childhood, and visual storytelling. Her journey into picture books began with a science title on the coronavirus, co-authored during the early days of the pandemic. The book quickly gained widespread recognition in China for its clarity and emotional sensitivity.

1 week ago | ourculturemag.com | Abbie Wilson

Finnish-born visual artist Vespera Xander constructs sculptural forms of armour by assembling them from fragments of razor wire—each one formerly part of a sprawling razor wire coil. These dangerous remnants, arranged piece by piece, accumulate into sharp, gleaming surfaces reminiscent of scales on a cyborgian creature. While her references reach back to medieval and renaissance body armour, Vespera’s vision points decidedly towards a speculative post-human future.