Our Lady On Fire, House On Fire, 2019, © Kendall Pestana

My project House On Fire is a series of internal landscapes and domestic spaces intended to explore psychological and bodily space through the lenses of gendered violence, illness, and objectification. – Kendall Pestana

The untangled night, 2020, © Michelle Piergoelam

In Michelle Piergoelam’s photographic work, she consciously uses stories, fairytales and myths from different traditions and cultures to fathom her history and background. With her images she stimulates the imagination and the narrative culture to keep their transmission alive. – Michelle Piergoelam

Waikiki, 2018, © Leah Schretenthaler

The land of Hawaii is luxurious and idyllic, but past the wanderlust images, it is also very controversial. Its industrial growth destroys the historical records and spiritual places that have existed there for generations. The silver gelatin prints are laser cut, splicing man-made structures from the landscape. The removed spaces reveal what Hawaii would look like without these impositions. – Leah Schretenthaler

Mom with Rose of Sharon, 2018, © Amrita Stützle

In my work, titled Maiden, Mother, Crone, I have been photographing my relationship with my Wiccan mother through the lens of the history of witchcraft. I am interested in reimagining the ever-present horror deeply rooted in this history as a way of deconstructing the violence toward women therein––a demonization of women that continues to perpetuate within contemporary society. I create an imagined world alongside my mother where I reference this history while reclaiming the power of magic as a radical feminist and restorative act. – Amrita Stützle

Red Delicious, Pickled Herring, 2020, © Svava Tergesen.

By ornamenting, transforming and disguising every-day objects, Crudités stages a novel encounter with the familiar. Emphasizing the body as a tool for sensing, the series seeks to discover what happens when objects and perception are corrupted. – Svava Tergesen

Idalia Vasquez

Amara and the Snake, Daughter and Mother, 2018 © Idalia Vasquez

This series explores my experience as a mother and how this experience is inevitably bound to my childhood memories. I am interested in how negative patterns are learned and concealed in the domestic space, and continued through generations. This work is a conceptual vision in between reality and fiction with some metaphoric religious components. – Idalia Vasquez

Boy with Rooster, 2019, © Zhidong Zhang

This body of work explores the construction of sexuality and identity through constructed scenes inflected with fantasy, trauma, fetish, and violence, which challenge the rigid and stereotypical codes of gender roles, identity construction, and traditional cultural values. – Zhidong Zhang