Choi Xoo Ang

Choi Xoo Ang from Seoul, South Korea, challenges society’s pathological state with her sculptures created from clay and resin. No real issue is left untouched, from human rights and sex gender to political issues she doesn't hold back. Her work is fascinating, it just might pop up in one of your nightmares. Some of her sculptures (or parts of it) are hyperrealistic. Choi canalizes her dark emotions into unique malformed creepy creatures and installations.

Julia Fullerton-Batten

Julia Fullerton-Batten's work "Unadorned" depicts people with a fuller more voluminous figure. She was inspired by the painting of old masters. Using soft candle like lighting and modern days props she shows her naked models in a modern context.
For the people finding the images grotesque or disturbing , here is a beautiful statement by the photographer; Throughout most of the last few millennia, the most sought-after female forms were represented by curvaceous bodies and in Rubens’ case of outright corpulence. It is only in very recent times, since Twiggy and Barbie came to the fore in the 1960s, that our narcissistic society reinforced by the media and advertising now interprets the ideal figure to be ultra-thin, enhanced by eating disorders and plastic surgery. Even men are beginning to be caught up in this vicious circle. Today’s harsh judgements of obese persons is particularly prevalent in the West; in many other cultures corpulence is still highly regarded today.

Atta Kim

"The Museum Project" Shows people preserved in plexiglass containers. As if the where valuable artifacts, Atta Kim shows these nude preserved people in different often unusual Settings. The series explores the basic functions of a museum; preserving, collecting, and categorizing of contemporary treasures. Placing them in a strange background the plastic containers turn an average place into exhibition space. This work is as much performance as it is photography. Atta Kim was born in South Korea.

Max Sauco

Max Sauco was born in Irkutsk in 1969, and admitted to the Union of Designers of Russia in 1998. This digital artist is referred to as the founder of photo manipulation in Russia. Inspired by surrealism his world is like a Dreamscape pulling you further in by every detail. His work is erotic and his stories look strangely disturbed, in a nice way that is. Fascinating and amusing.

Olivier Christinat

Swiss photographer Olivier Christinat is an independent photographer and teacher. The Beautiful black and white pictures are from his earlier work 'Apocryphes'. The sober, simple approach and subtle lighting add to the whole atmosphere. As the title gives it away, there is the biblical reference, the metaphors...but no need to panic you can enjoy his work without any religious notion...

Colored work from the 'Nue' series.