MA Contemporary Photography. Class of 2025

We‘ll Be Back Soon 10-12 July 2025 Safehouse 2 @maverickprojects Curated and produced by: @csm_macppp25 Featuring artists: Stela Csizmazia, Kaiying Chen, Tree Xu, Stanley Platten, Simon Barratt, Rae Feng, Daniel Bernal, Wendy Chen, Jamie Spillett, Ann Han, Joana Kazmaier, Alexis Anaci, Checo Mogo, Anastasia Belinskaya photos: @abelinskaya.photo

Meet the artists graduating from MA Contemporary Photography; Practices and Philosophies at Central Saint Martins Postgraduate Art Show 2025. Featuring Ann Han @an_n_once Working with delay and uncertainty, my practice moves through the space between experience and recognition — between filming and viewing, self and other. I approach visual installations as spaces for relational hesitation. Influenced by psychoanalytic structures such as transference and misrecognition, I consider those social identity roles — friend, student, audience, artist… as fictions we lean on. These relational fantasies hold us together, shielding individuals from the solitude at the core of subjectivity. In an era dominated by an ideology of relentless self-definition, I ask what happens when the fantasy of certainty begins to give way. The exhibition becomes a still point within an ongoing structure of feeling, rather than a fixed answer. Opening Preview-1 July, 6-9pm Open to public-2-6 July, free, booking not required Central Saint Martins, 1 Granary Square, N1C 4AA @csm_news @csm_macp Poster design @970ml

Meet the artists graduating from MA Contemporary Photography; Practices and Philosophies at Central Saint Martins Postgraduate Art Show 2025. Featuring Rae Ruiying Feng @raeraeraeisme Rae is an artist whose practice developed through cosplay and ACG cultures. Working with photography, installation, and material assemblage, Rae explores how identity is constructed, deconstructed, and archived. The work often begins with objects drawn from everyday life, such as wigs, lace, ribbons, printed fabrics, and bandages. These materials are not only visually compelling but also carry emotional traces. They have been close to the body and involved in acts of performance. Operating within a cultural context where fluid and non-mainstream identities are frequently subject to scrutiny or marginalization, Rae approaches cosplay as a method of self-preservation and a subtle form of micro-resistance. Performance, repetition, and rupture become ways to reimagine the self. Identity is not treated as a fixed state but as an open, imperfect practice. In the recent installation Screened (2025), Rae reconfigures discarded cosplay fragments into a suspended archive displayed on a hand-welded steel fence. Soft materials are wrapped around dismantled props, pointing toward both fantasy and trauma. The title reflects tensions between visibility and control. To be screened can mean to be shown, but also to be filtered or excluded. The work reflects on how identity is selectively seen, preserved, or forgotten within systems of representation. Through these fragile objects and temporary structures, Rae invites viewers into a space that exists after performance. The body is no longer present, but the self has not fully disappeared. Vulnerability is not seen as avoidance but as a sustained and deliberate form of resistance. Rae’s practice asks how disappearing selves might be held onto, and how transformation can be recorded through material and space, even in its quiet and unfinished form. Opening Preview-1 July, 6-9pm Open to public-2-6 July, free, booking not required Central Saint Martins, 1 Granary Square, N1C 4AA @csm_news @csm_macp @csm_macppp25 Poster design @970ml

Meet the artists graduating from MA Contemporary Photography; Practices and Philosophies at Central Saint Martins Postgraduate Art Show 2025. Featuring Lankairan Zhang @lankairanzhang : Lankairan Zhang (b.1998 China) ‘I seek to bridge the gap between art and everyday life by using plastic bags as a creative medium, employing familiar materials to prompt viewers to reflect on their personal narratives surrounding plastic, as well as the broader social discourse embedded in its visual representation. I have found that these materials are particularly effective in activating viewers’ sensitivities and enhancing their environmental awareness and sense of social responsibility. Through careful observation and thoughtful use of these materials, I create artworks that more directly draw public attention to environmental issues through varied modes of presentation. In doing so, I aim to encourage viewers to re-examine the human-nature relationship and to critically reflect on the ecological consequences of everyday human activities.’ Opening Preview-1 July, 6-9pm Open to public-2-6 July, free, booking not required Central Saint Martins, 1 Granary Square, N1C 4AA @csm_news @csm_macp Poster design @970ml

Meet the artists graduating from MA Contemporary Photography; Practices and Philosophies at Central Saint Martins Postgraduate Art Show 2025. Featuring Stanley Platten @_platten_ : Opening Preview-1 July, 6-9pm Open to public-2-6 July, free, booking not required Central Saint Martins, 1 Granary Square, N1C 4AA @csm_news @csm_macp Poster design @970ml

Meet the artists graduating from MA Contemporary Photography; Practices and Philosophies at Central Saint Martins Postgraduate Art Show 2025. Featuring Alexis Anaci @alexisanaci : Topology of Friendship continues an evolving inquiry into the inner world. Here, that inquiry unfolds through the lens of friendship. The piece explores the impossible desire to make one’s interior landscape visible to another: to translate thought, feeling, and memory into shared form. In doing so, it confronts the gap between what is felt and what can be expressed, what is known privately and what can be known together. It offers a space where two inner worlds might brush against each other—not to merge, but to recognise their distance. That failure becomes its own site of intimacy, a moment of resonance made possible through the very act of falling short. At its core, this piece gestures toward the void at the centre of the self. Not as absence, but as potential. It offers no resolution, only invites a moment of wonder. alexisanaci.com Opening Preview-1 July, 6-9pm Open to public-2-6 July, free, booking not required Central Saint Martins, 1 Granary Square, N1C 4AA @csm_macp @csm_news Poster design @970ml

Meet the artists graduating from MA Contemporary Photography; Practices and Philosophies at Central Saint Martins Postgraduate Art Show 2025. Featuring Wendy Chen @_wendy0115_ : ‘My artistic practice explores the complexity of mother-daughter relationships within East Asian contexts, often shaped by the absence of a father figure. Through sculpture, photography, and installation, I examine how emotional roles—mother, daughter, sister, partner—intersect and shift, and how identity is formed through intimacy, absence, and emotional inheritance. Feminism has always underpinned my work—not as a theory alone, but as a lived experience passed from mother to daughter, shaped by societal pressures and historical silence. Much of my work is emotionally driven, beginning with a visceral feeling and moving toward material expression. I use materials such as silk, wax, ceramic, and Polaroid emulsion—each chosen for its symbolic tension between softness and strength, fragility and endurance. The “vase” is a recurring motif in my practice: sometimes representing my mother, other times myself, and occasionally, an imagined father figure. This form becomes a vessel for projection, memory, and transformation.’ Opening Preview-1 July, 6-9pm Open to public-2-6 July, free, booking not required Central Saint Martins, 1 Granary Square, N1C 4AA @csm_news @csm_macp Poster design @970ml

Meet the artists graduating from MA Contemporary Photography; Practices and Philosophies at Central Saint Martins Postgraduate Art Show 2025. Featuring Kaiying Chen @k0tturr : Kaiying Chen,lives in London and studying at Central Saint Martins.Her works are primarily centered around installation,spanning multiple dimensions of performance, and sound.Her practice explores the human condition within contemporary society, specifically delving into the relationships between individual resistance and the collective unconscious. She was influenced by Attali and saw noise as a form of resistance to the musical order.Her recent practices focus on the social implications of noise in politics contexts and how sound shapes and alters collective consciousness. In her works, she combined drone sounds with metal sculptural to explore how understanding and emotional connections are constructed between people through sound. Opening Preview-1 July, 6-9pm Open to public-2-6 July, free, booking not required Central Saint Martins, 1 Granary Square, N1C 4AA @csm_news @csm_macp Poster design @970ml

Meet the artists graduating from MA Contemporary Photography; Practices and Philosophies at Central Saint Martins Postgraduate Art Show 2025. Featuring Yanyao Huang @yanyao.h_guagua ： ‘My practice explores the fluid relationship between emotion, the body, and space, with the kitchen as a recurring point of return. Once the safest and most intimate place of my childhood, it has become a site continuously disrupted, redefined, and reimagined. Through video, installation, and performance, I use the rhythm, repetition, and interaction in cooking to trace hidden psychological states and structural tensions between people. Absurdity, deconstruction, and toy-like visual language become gentle yet pointed responses to the overlooked discipline embedded in daily life. I ask: how does emotion pass through structure? How does space shift in memory? How does personal perception shape relational experience? To me, the kitchen is not a fixed space, but an ongoing practice—one that carries the emotional traces of transformation and allows me to locate myself within constant change.’ Opening Preview-1 July, 6-9pm Open to public-2-6 July, free, booking not required Central Saint Martins, 1 Granary Square, N1C 4AA @csm_news @csm_macp Poster design @970ml

Meet the artists graduating from MA Contemporary Photography; Practices and Philosophies at Central Saint Martins Postgraduate Art Show 2025. Featuring Tree(Ziqi) Xu @xuzitree : Tree(Ziqi) Xu is a contemporary art practitioner working between China and the United Kingdom. His practice involves installation, moving image, and performance, investigating the entanglement between technological systems, ideological structures, and systemic violence. Through the appropriation of industrial materials and technological objects—such as surveillance devices, pipelines, and urban infrastructures—he constructs immersive environments that evoke a mechanical logic embedded within contemporary life.Tree’s methodology revolves around “apparatus critique”: a way of combining found materials, digital debris, historical fragments, and everyday images into spatial arrangements that confront the viewer with sensations of tension, rupture, and transformation. His works often incorporate kinetic elements, sound, 3D-printed forms, and prosthetic textures to blur boundaries between organic and synthetic, human and non-human. The creation of these mixtures was his path to reaching the Inhuman Horizon, intended to stir up primitive desires of meat in the nowadays audience‘s consciousness.Influenced by speculative memory and cinematic language, Tree seeks to create experiential fields where sensation becomes a site of resistance against the smoothness of ideological automation. His practice explores how affect, movement, and visual friction can challenge dominant representations shaped by technological violence. Opening Preview-1 July, 6-9pm Open to public-2-6 July, free, booking not required Central Saint Martins, 1 Granary Square, N1C 4AA @csm_news @csm_macp Poster design @970ml

Meet the artists graduating from MA Contemporary Photography; Practices and Philosophies at Central Saint Martins Postgraduate Art Show 2025. Featuring Joana Kazmaier @joanakazmaier ‘With a background in jewellery, my research during the MA explored how metal interacts with the body and how we use it as a kind of [de-fence] against our inherent corporeal fluidity. Looking at internal, external, and orificial relationships, I questioned: How do we arm ourselves in fear of losing control over our physical boundaries? How does visibility change the choices we make? Where does one end and the other begin?’ Opening Preview-1 July, 6-9pm Open to public-2-6 July, free, booking not required Central Saint Martins, 1 Granary Square, N1C 4AA @csm_news @csm_macp Poster design @970ml

Meet the artists graduating from MA Contemporary Photography; Practices and Philosophies at Central Saint Martins Postgraduate Art Show 2025. Featuring Daniel Bernal @ddebernal_ : Daniel Bernal (Bogotá, 1995) is an artist driven by the quest to understand the invisible roots of realities. Through literature, philosophy, and cinema, he defines the language with which allow him to read and communicate with the world. In his creative process, through ethnographic diaries, plastic and digital experimentation of multimedia images, he addresses self-representation, socio-environmental issues, and gender-related experiences. His artistic work aims to recognize the diverse ways of being and understanding human relations with their environment and relatives. Opening Preview-1 July, 6-9pm Open to public-2-6 July, free, booking not required Central Saint Martins, 1 Granary Square, N1C 4AA @csm_news @csm_macp Poster design @970ml