In the restless creative pulse of Addis Ababa, Ethiopian visual artist Estifanos Solomon emerges as a storyteller with intent. Trained in painting and printmaking, his practice navigates a delicate threshold between personal confession and collective reflection, drawing from lived experience to illuminate what society too often leaves in shadow - vulnerability, conflict and care.

Lahore-based artist Vania Mazhar is part of a new generation of Pakistani painters expanding the language of their medium into experimental forms. With a practice that moves fluidly between painting, installation, video and sculpture, she builds immersive environments that respond to sites, memory and overlooked traces of history. Alongside exhibiting in museums and galleries across Pakistan, Mazhar teaches drawing at the National College of Arts, grounding her explorations in the daily rhythm of mark-making.

At just 21 years old, Tehran-based photographer Mostafa Shahabi has already carved a distinct path through the Iranian visual arts landscape. Born in Ahvaz in 2003, Shahabi’s early life was marked by a rich engagement with multiple forms of creativity: drawing, painting, music, and literature. Yet it was photography and cinema, embraced at the age of sixteen through the Iranian Youth Cinema Society, that ultimately became the vessels for his artistic exploration.

In a practice that gently dissolves the boundaries between self and environment, artist, writer, and curator Damini Yadav invites us into an evolving conversation between the personal and the planetary. Currently based in Milan, Italy, Yadav’s multidisciplinary work, spanning painting, collage, environmental installations, and performance, emerges from a richly layered cultural journey: born in India, raised in Malawi, and shaped by studies in Bangalore and Milan.

There’s a quiet reverence in the work of Bella Stern - one that beckons us to slow down, reconsider our material world, and witness nature as both sculptor and collaborator. An American bio-designer, researcher, and set designer now based in Paris, Stern merges her scientific background with artistic intuition. With a Master’s in Fashion Studies from Parsons Paris and a dual undergraduate degree in Psychology and French from Villanova University and a Sustainability minor, her interdisciplinary approach feels both studied and instinctual.