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The Voice You Projected
In the Wake of Ruin: She is Here
Reliving My Chaos
Intelligence in Motion—Dreaming Butterfly
AI-generated video, single-channel video, stereo sound 3 min 25 sec
Acrylic and charcoal on dustsheet 180 × 186 cm
Paint, thread, fabric 90 × 80 cm
Oil on claybord 61 × 46 cm
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2025
mai.assi Mai Aboassi
_lunnna_sy Luna Qin
manlin_ooo Manlin Zhang
ladedum Lydia Newman
Mai Aboassi is a contemporary Egyptian artist and researcher based in London. Having lived between Oman, Qatar and Egypt, Aboassi’s practice is shaped by themes of displacement, belonging and memory. Working across drawing, painting, textiles and photography, Aboassi creates layered works that merge personal narratives with broader reflections on identity, resilience and transformation. This dress combines embroidery, fabric paint and mixed media that carries the fears, disappointments and sorrow of Mai Aboassi’s childhood. It reveals inner confusion through flashes of images and writing that persist in memory. The dress embodies anger towards unfairness and discrimination while holding the unfulfilled wishes of a child longing to be a princess in a fairytale. Drawings and stitches on the surface appear chaotic, yet the disorder is deliberate, reflecting how memory returns fragmented and unresolved.
Luna Qin is a London-based illustrator. Her current practice explores AI-powered divination systems as emotional mirrors, questioning whether algorithmic responses provide genuine insight or simply mirror our desire for certainty. Using tools such as Midjourney, Runway and TouchDesigner, Qin creates experimental visual narratives that simulate rituals of comfort, projection and belief. The work is an experimental short film that explores emotional dependency and the illusion of trust formed between humans and AI through the ritual of digital tarot. Combining AI-generated imagery with a surreal script drawn from real interactions, the film simulates a dreamlike exchange between user and algorithm. The work reflects on a growing phenomenon in which truth is not sought from AI systems but rather emotional relief, pattern and presence.
Lydia Newman is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, sculpture, performance and workshops. Drawing on a background in creative facilitation across the UK and Africa, Lydia creates works that interconnect across media and actively engage audiences. Recent practice explores Black British womanhood, confronting internalised oppression and strategies of survival under capitalism. In the Wake of Ruin: She is Here weaves elements from Newman’s live performance, sculpture and painting. The work examines internalised ideas of race, globalisation, class and gender rooted in colonialism, framed through Newman’s position as a descendant of the Black Diaspora. It traverses visible and invisible worlds, moving across timelines of lineage and practice.
Manlin Zhang is a scientific artist with a background in Optoelectronic Engineering and Art and Science at Central Saint Martins. Zhang creates visual structures that reveal hidden patterns of thought, emotion and existence, inviting viewers into spaces where science becomes sensuous and art becomes inquiry. Intelligence in Motion—Dreaming Butterfly is a visual trace of intelligence before language, still moving, recursive and pre-symbolic. Created in oil on claybord, it captures the tension between intuition and computation, the moment before thought crystallises into logic. In an age when machines simulate cognition and biology reveals hidden layers of complexity, the work poses questions about what defines life, consciousness and perception.
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