Upon completing his studies in the Department of Journalism of Hong Kong Baptist University and the Department of Fine Arts of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Jeff Cheng Tsz Fung (b.1994, Hong Kong) has been widely recognised for his work throughout ten years in photojournalism including the award of Picture of the Year at Taiwan Press Photo Contest 2021. He is also acting as the Chairperson of Hong Kong Press Photographers Association for a two-year term from 2023 to 2025.
In addition to documentary photography, he began a creative voyage in various media, from video and performance to sound and installation. The synthesis of experience and close observation during his formative years in photography has lent the artist an intuition to further explore the notion of “Others” by alienating images from the subjects that they capture. Hence, images are no longer substantive products of re-enactment. Rather, images connect or disconnect an “appearance” from its connotations, discourses and reverberations.
Cheng works across photography, performative actions, and site-responsive interventions to reconsider the relationship between the self and social reality. Moving between the roles of participant and witness, he challenges the conventions of his background in photojournalism while exploring how fragile memories and trauma may be reimagined through images. His major series include Anonymous Monument (2021), To Become the Landscape (2022), and The Pain Is Far from Enough (2023). In 2022, he participated in an artist residency at Para Site. In 2023, he was selected for soundpocket’s Artist Support Programme 2022–2023 (Special Edition) and presented his first solo exhibition, With All Flatness, as part of the Satellite Exhibitions of the Hong Kong International Photo Festival.
Law Yuk Mui is a multidisciplinary artist and art educator who lives and works between Chiba, Japan, and Hong Kong. Working primarily through expanded cinema, she adopts methodologies of field research to intervene in everyday urban spaces. Her practice attends to the physical traces of history, bodily memory, the marks of time, and the operations of power embedded within geographic space.
Sound serves as an anchor in Law’s work. Her work explores the political and cultural rhetoric of sound and acoustic memory, as well as the orchestration and interplay between sound, text, and visuals.
Yi Lian (1987–2026) was born in Yichun, Jiangxi, China. He received his B.A. from the Department of New Media Art at the China Academy of Art in 2009 and his M.F.A. from the School of Intermedia Art at the China Academy of Art in 2012.
Working across video, installation, photography, painting, and ceramics, Yi Lian’s practice was grounded in the realities of contemporary China while focusing on concrete and authentic states of individual consciousness. Rather than relying on purely abstract concepts, his work drew from personal lived experience. Through understated narratives, self-negating strategies, and on-site filming, he constructed surreal scenarios that captured the realities and conditions of the present moment.
Yi Lian was the recipient of the Jimei x Arles Discovery Award (2019) and the 100 Artists Award presented by the Sudan's Foundation for Culture (2022). His works are held in the collections of the White Rabbit Gallery (Australia), Tianmuli Art Museum, and the Yaoshan Contemporary Art Foundation, among others. His work has been exhibited at institutions including OCAT Shanghai, OCAT Shenzhen, S-AIR (Hokkaido, Japan), the Power Station of Art (Shanghai), the CAFA Art Museum, the Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, the Today Art Museum (Beijing), Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl (Germany), the White Rabbit Gallery (Australia), and the Shenzhen Art Museum.
Goang-Ming Yuan (b. 1965, Taipei) graduated from the Department of Fine Arts, National Taiwan Academy of Arts (now National Taiwan University of Arts) in 1989. In 1993, he was awarded the DAAD Germany Exchange Scholarship, and next year went to re- search on media art at the Institute for New Media in Frankfurt, Germany.
He received his master’s degree in media art from the now Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, Germany) in 1997. Yuan’s active commitment to video art has made him one of the pioneering new media artists in Taiwan since the 90s. He works across various, ranging from single-channel videos, computerized interactive installations, installation-based video projections, to prints created with digital media. Through these forms, he has consistently explored and unfolded the possibilities of video and media art.