New resident artist @sammydoes.it
Sammy Does is a Dutch-Indonesian, Amsterdam-based designer and maker who posits the body as a site of phantasmagoric morphology — forever in a state of flux, dissolving, reconfiguring, and taking renewed shape. Her practice moves through this instability, tracing its influence on subjectivity and personhood through a lens that is at once rigorously conceptual and deeply embodied. Recurring notions include fluidity, material affect, aesthetics, commodification, and gender, all inflected by her experience as a bi-cultural trans person.In her execution, Sammy fuses technical potential with anatomical reality, reimagining digital apparitions within IRL landscapes and vice versa. Her output spans 3D-printed nail prosthetics, installation design, and robotic sculpture, united by a commitment to fantasy and play as serious modes of inquiry.
During her residency, Sammy explores ceramics, knitwear, and synthetic skin as new material directions, experimenting with how each might find its way into her installative robotic sculptures.
Sammy Does is a recipient of the Creative Industry Talent Development Grant (2024—2025) and is included in a forthcoming exhibition (2027) at Design Museum Den Bosch (NL).
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New resident artist @roledebaik
Patricia Baik (b. 1996, São Paulo, Brazil) is a Korean-Brazilian visual artist and trans non-binary person whose practice spans painting, drawing, and installation. Through a poetic engagement with intimacy, time, and identity, Baik constructs fictional diaries that explore the fluidity of selfhood and the in-between spaces of belonging. Their compositions often feature translucent fabrics, sculptural wooden supports inspired by traditional Korean furniture, and self-referential imagery, proposing possible worlds where love, rest, and memory become ways of inhabiting.
Baik holds a degree from the Faculdade de Belas Artes of São Paulo (2019) and has participated in the Contemporary Practices residency at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Their work has been exhibited at institutions including Latina Artists, the Museum of Art of Ribeirão Preto, the Museum of Sexual Diversity, Bianca Boeckel Gallery, Diaspora Gallery, VERVE, and the CICA Museum in South Korea. They have also presented solo projects at art fairs such as Chicago EXPO and SP-Arte, and participated in group exhibitions at the Bienal de São Paulo. In addition to their artistic practice, Baik has been invited to speak at institutions such as the Tomie Ohtake Institute and the Pinacoteca Museum of Art of São Paulo.
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Artist community collaboration. Experimental music live. On the slow current. With resident artists, Aditya Ryan Bhat, and local artists Wuinboo, Dalong. Video by Wuinboo
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Artist community collaboration, , experimental music live. On the Slow Current, with resident artist Aditya Ryan Bhat, and local artists Wuinboo and Dalong.
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Photos from the opening of At the Thresholds, with @lamcat.studio@mayuweii@yunfeng.art and Aditya Ryan Bhat
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Upcoming exhibition, At the Thresholds, with @lamcat.studio@mayuweii Aditya Rayn Bhat @yunfeng.art
At the thresholds, experience remains in a state that is never fully defined. Time is no longer linear, nor is space a fixed boundary; both shift continuously between entry and exit, appearance and disappearance.
Four resident artists, approaching the threshold through time, body, space, and narrative. It appears as a cut in time, a pause in the body, an interval in relation, and a spatial condition of transition.
Lamcat maps fleeting relations through walking along the river and lunar cycles. Yuwei Ma explores interruption and movement through bodily gestures and nomadic objects, producing an “in-between” of relations. Aditya Ryan Bhat reveals spatial liminality through the logic of the door/threshold. Sofia Piacentini reconfigures intimacy within political narratives, where the sweetness of power obscures its cost.
Together, these practices form a shifting field of perception in which the threshold is not a line, but a continuous condition. Meaning is not presented, but momentarily activated through encounter and transition.
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New resident artist @yunfeng.art
Sofia Piacentini is a Los Angeles-based interdisciplinary artist working across painting, sculpture, photography, tattooing, and installation. Her work builds large-scale narratives that reflect on contemporary life through satire, observation, and familiar imagery that shifts on closer look.
She moves between mediums depending on what each idea calls for, rather than sticking to one approach. Her work often draws from political and cultural realities, not to make direct statements, but to observe, reframe, and hold onto moments from the present.
Being both Chinese and American, and having lived in both countries, continues to shape how she approaches culture, identity, and representation.
During her residency at ACENTRICSPACE, she is developing new paintings and an installation that combines sculpture, tattoo, and photography.
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New resident artist Aditya Ryan Bhat
Aditya Ryan Bhat is a musician living in Narrm/Melbourne, Australia. He uses acoustic and electronic materials to create diverse combinations of sounds. Trained in percussion, Aditya experiments with physical properties of objects and instruments, combining them with various forms of synthesised sound, field recordings, and live processing. This music explores the interconnections between the histories of colonialism/imperialism and ecological issues.
With a longstanding interest in Chinese history, philosophy, and the writing system, Aditya plans to explore these areas further while staying at the residency in Zhujiajiao. Also, he will perform at Trigger (Shanghai), dv (Suzhou), Toku Gallery (Nanjing), and Sounds Unfound (Xiamen), and is looking forward to immersing in the Chinese experimental music scene. At the residency, Aditya is thinking about Shanghai’s layered history as a colonial and postcolonial city, its closeness to the sea, rivers, and lakes, and ecological progress taking place here today.
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New resident artist @mayuweii
Yuwei Ma is a contemporary artist and researcher whose primary medium is ceramics. She received her BFA from the Academy of Arts & Design at Tsinghua University (Ceramic Art and Design) and later obtained both her MFA and PhD from Kyoto City University of Arts in Japan. Her practice and research emerge from the intersection of language, symbols, materials, and concepts, focusing on how boundaries are continuously produced and transformed through relationships and actions.
In Ma’s work, ceramics are not merely functional objects or traditional craft media, but rather a neutral material that oscillates between the natural and the artificial. From a posthumanist perspective, she deconstructs conventional frameworks of function, enabling her works to become sites where meaning is constantly generated through the transformation and interaction of different materials. Her practice extends across sensory and experiential dimensions, establishing both tension and continuity between art and everyday life. Through interaction and perception, viewers are invited to enter the process of the work’s becoming. By interweaving bodily and aesthetic experience, she seeks to construct a space of deep dialogue, in which ceramics function as an open structure connecting materiality, perception, and thought.
She continues to explore the complex relationship between materiality and perception through ceramics, installation, and interdisciplinary practices, expanding new theoretical and practical dimensions for ceramics in a contemporary context.
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