All in art

Sara Bastai

Making images that ‘stretch’ and deconstruct some of our most mundane moments, Sara Bastai is an artist who is exposing and reflecting the many layers of our current emotional, physical and digital existence.

Hirashe

Hiren, also known as his pseudonym Hirashe is a Visual Artist whose work focuses on the intersection between spiritual, symbolism and new technology to create transcendent imagery. The Kuala Lumpur-based creative speaks to Coeval about his creative practice, influences and opinions on the art world and its current trends.

Naomi Gilon

Shoes, bags, hands, heads, teeth, are some of the themes portrayed in Naomi Gilon’s chimerical creations. Inspired by the idea of the ‘monstrous’ and hybrid bodies, she brings everyday images to life in the form of mutated ceramic pieces.

Noah Cohen

Amsterdam-based video artist and sculptor @no5ah0bot fabricates a fantasy universe of cyborg creatures through the power of constant transformation.

Yslam Boys

Disruptive art collective Yslam Boys discusses their “ghost project” through social media trolling, tarots, hyperstitions and surreal anecdotes.

Mafalda Costa

Working from her home lab, visual artist Mafalda Costa creates magical colour oil sticks inspired by volcanoes, mushrooms, emotions and images from her own dreams. We spoke to her to find out some of the hidden meanings of Io and learn about the magic of existing.

Laila Majid

Challenging the border between the repulsive and the seductive, artist Laila Majid creates images and objects where the body is analysed microscopically and is in constant transformation, making the familiar quickly become strange.

Larry Madrigal

Now from the top, make it drop, that’s some wet-a** brushy: @LarryMadrigal knows how to naturally construct the complex and absurde scenarios of everyday life with obsession for specific detail and shallow attitude.

Maksym Kozlov

No involvement need here: When the art form speaks for itself. For „My beautiful tomorrow“ @kozlovmaksym collected children pictures that represent the Russian nineties in its purest form and give a glance into USSR almost forgotten memorabilia.

Joe Cruz

@Joecruzstudio translates the grandessa of lost, present and future times with nostalgia and non-chalance into his pictures and paintings. What Gerhard Richter was to his early working years might be Joe for us today. There it is, I said it.

Jean-Baptiste Janisset

Jean-Baptiste spoke with Coeval about his artwork inspired by the religion, places of worship and the afterlife. The french artist talks to us about his personal journey as an artist and his current project “Sourire aux Anges”.

Dum Keramik

After her master's degree in industrial design and internships in various design fields such as identity design, design research, automotive industry, textile design and furniture design, Swedish artist Siri Skillgate plunged full into business.

Ludovic Beillard

Between building monasteries to allow cats to withdraw from the world and trapping cigarette butts in resign, Ludovic Beillard plays with material and ages, without bias.

Chris Regner

Rhode-Island based artist Chris Regner mixes autobiography with the grotesque as a point of departure in his art. He shares with us his childhood experiences which takes a central stage in his exploration of masculinity and adulthood in his work.

Somnath Bhatt

Based between New York and Ahmedabad, Somnath Bhatt is a multidisciplinary artist whose interests range from multimedia and technology to typography. Somnath’s work is intimately symbolic, often featuring metaphors that tap into the intersectional spaces of art and design. He speaks to Coeval about ‘decolonisation’, his creative process and the arts scene.

Camille Soulat

Incorporating painting through a digital format is central to Camille Soulat’s work. Her gentle aesthetic that she describes as melancholic and contemplative gives each of her pieces a unique story. Read on to hear more from the French based artist.