Where the Flowers Bloom

Alaga is an interdisciplinary illustrator, painter, designer, performer, and ritual practitioner. They are currently working as a bodyworker of tattooing, integrating its liberation work and magic where the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will takes up space. Their art speaks mostly of the Filipino psyche, spirituality, natural heritage, and native ecology. They studied Graphics Design and Multimedia, but are forever a student of life, our cycles, our lands, and forests.

Bea Gemperle is a multi-disciplinary researcher, community builder, and strategist. She has great taste, an eye for detail, and a growth mindset used to expand businesses strategically and creatively. She has an insatiable appetite for youth & pop culture, digital trends, and creative insights across platforms. Her work is motivated by amplifying underrepresented communities and cultural perspectives.

Bontyanak is a multidisciplinary artist from Malaysia. Their practice centres around cultivating a resting space for dreaming. Dreaming as an act of prayer and rest as a sacred defiance. A prayer to build worlds beyond the colonial imagination. A portal to invite our hidden parts to come out and play. Illuminating the unseen and transcending the illusions of binary systems.

Gab Mejia is a queer Filipino photographer, multidisciplinary artist, and environmental engineer. He weaves the different fabrics of visual storytelling, environmental design, and ecology through the arts, photography, poetics, and participatory research— unveiling the threads of the climate crisis, biodiversity loss, ancestral knowledge, cosmologies, and cultural interconnections to confront our socio-political and ecological crises. He is a National Geographic Explorer, where he continues to explore the plurality of narratives, identities, and depictions of nature through mythopoetics and speculative documentary— hoping to gain a deeper understanding of our shared yet fraught relationship with the environment and of ourselves.

Issa is an emerging multimedia artist who mainly focuses on oil as a medium to depict the relationships between the spiritual and physical island realms of the Philippines as a way to process the experiences . She is currently working on her first solo exhibit to be launched in 2025 in Manila, Philippines.

Lulu Wang is a London-based Chinese interdisciplinary artist. Through visual work and performance-making, her practice explores the body as a vessel and a shifting space that forms the shape of human identity. By incorporating AI technology, dance and post-humanism narratives, her practice uses abstract visual language and character to translate the symbiotic connections between emotional worlds and their physical embodiment - reflecting the reality of imperfection inside humanity and its nature and fantasies of its existence in the multiverse.

Mai is a ceramic artist whose practice is slow and mood dependent, with artwork that is always sculptural and usually functional. Thoughts are processed and personas are expressed through the handling of clay, with clarity reached in the final artwork’s fired state of permanence.

Nanzhen Yang is a multiple-disciplinary artist based in London. In her art practice, she weaves sound, text and A/V work, thus going beyond the limits of specific media. In her sound practice, she aims to bring together the cinematic and the emotional sounds together to create her own sonic, narrative-led adventure. Combined with her Fine Art Graduate background from RCA, she makes full use of her animism-based mind in her music journey.

Tasha and Bella Tanjutco are sisters from the Philippines and co-founders of TAYO House of Culture and Creativity, a design consultancy that believes in blending heritage and tradition with contemporary design and culture to investigate solutions for system transformation. They hope to prove through their work that global issues can be solved through design solutions that come from their archipelago. At the age of 15 and 13 they co-founded kids for kids, a youth-led movement to make every island a creative and safe space for children by crafting festivals, libraries, storybooks, playgrounds, and new media centered around archipelagic culture and tradition. They are constantly experimenting with Filipino vernacular materials, motifs, movements, and methods, to bring a renewed sense of Filipino identity for generations to come.