Maria Appleton (b. 1997) is a Lisbon-based artist whose practice interrogates the subjectivity of urban systems and human perception.
Her work has been presented internationally through exhibitions and residencies, including Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan (2018); EMMA Institute, Germany (2020); Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (2022, funded by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation); Fondation CAB, Brussels (2024); and the Albers Foundation residency program (2026). Solo exhibitions include Gaze to See, Gauze to Perceive at FOCO Gallery, Lisbon (2021), HATCH, Paris (2023), and What Holds the Structure at Galeria Foco, Lisbon (2026).

Dalia Baassiri (b. 1981, Lebanon) graduated in 2003 from the Lebanese American University with a BS in Graphic Design and went on to pursue her MFA in 2012 at Chelsea College of Arts in London. Growing up during the civil war, she spent most of her childhood indoors and found refuge in drawing at an early age. In her work, Baassiri is highly concerned with exploring materiality and surface, often focusing on volume, thickness, and weight. Her current investigations deal with the immediacy of the everyday, dust or traces left behind by human actions, and cleaning routines. Baassiri’s work has been showcased at Galerie Janine Rubeiz, Beirut Art Fair, Abu Dhabi Art Fair, the Ayyam Young Collectors’ Auction in Dubai, Celeste Prize 9th ed. in London and Arte Laguna Prize 13th ed. in Venice and many more. Her main first solo Exhibition in Lebanon Wiped off took place in 2017 at Galerie Janine Rubeiz where her work is permanently exhibited.
Dalia has been awarded by Fabriano, Maraya, and the Lebanese Web Design. She has also been granted art residencies among them; a fellowship at Siena Art Institute in Italy in 2015 by Kempinski Young Artist Program, a dual residency at RU in Brooklyn and Sculpture Space in Utica NY in 2016 sponsored by ArteEast, and the latest one in 2018 was awarded by Arte Laguna Prize 12th ed. at Espronceda Center of Art and Culture in Barcelona where she held her solo exhibition Vesuvius.

Kara Chin (b. 1994, Singapore) is a multidisciplinary artist working across ceramics, sculpture, animation, and installation. Chin’s work has been shown internationally at institutions and exhibitions including the Liverpool Biennial (United Kingdom), Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London; Humber Street Gallery, Hull; The 8th Triennial of Art and Ecology, Maribor (Slovenia); BALTIC 39, Newcastle; and South London Gallery, London. She lives and works in Berlin, Germany, where she continues to develop projects at the intersection of technology, ecology, and imagination.

Léo Fourdrinier (b. 1992, France) graduated from the École Supérieure d’Arts et Médias de Caen/Cherbourg in 2017. His work is distinguished by a sculptural practice that explores the relationships between past and present, reality and imagination. He exhibited at the CACN – Centre d’Art Contemporain de Nîmes in 2021 and presented his work during the 16th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, Manifesto of Fragility, in 2022. In 2025, he held a solo exhibition, Les historiens du futur, at the Musée Henri Prades in partnership with MO.CO. Montpellier Contemporain, in Lattes.

Arthur Hoffmann (born in 1991) is a Franco-German photographer who grew up in Paris. A graduate of the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, he developed a thesis on abstract photography. His work, influenced by prominent German photographers such as Wolfgang Tillmans and Thomas Ruff, as well as brutalist architecture, explores our relationship with transitional spaces and non-places. Currently in residence at the POUSH studios, he is delving deeper into his research on the interactions between space, memory, and abstraction, producing works that capture the essence of urban environments and their materiality.

Jan Melka (b. 1995, France) is french-american visual artist, lives and works in Paris, France. Her work has been exhibited at The Lobby, Tokyo, Japan ; Michael Bargo gallery in New-York, US ; Plate. Paris, Paris, France ; Pavillon Vendôme, Paris, France ; Galerie Sans Titre, Paris, France ; Spring Studios, New York, NY, USA ; NoblePeople, London, UK and Studio H13, Lyon, France.

Felipe Romero Beltrán (b. 1992, Bogotá, Colombia) is a photographer and visual artist based in Paris. He holds a PhD in Photography from the Complutense University of Madrid. Romero Beltrán’s work has received significant recognition, including the Prix Photo Elysée (2025), Emerige-CPGA Prize at ARCO Madrid (2024), Prix pour la photographie at Quai Branly (2024), Foam Paul Huf Award and Mapfre Award (2023), and the Aperture Portfolio Prize (2022). He has presented solo exhibitions at institutions such as Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris; Carré d’Art, Nîmes; Fundación Mapfre, Madrid and Barcelona; FOAM, Amsterdam; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; and Aperture Foundation, New York. His work is held in public and private collections including Carré d’Art, FOAM, KADIST, Fenix Museum, and Aperture.

Romain Vicari (b. 1990, France) lives and works between Paris and Sao Paulo. A graduate with the congratulations of the jury from ENSA Dijon (2012) and ENSBA Paris (2014), Romain Vicari is a winner of the Prix Découverte des Amis du Palais de Tokyo (2016). His work has appeared in several solo and group shows, in particular at Les Magasins Généraux (Pantin, 2018), Les Ateliers Vortex (Dijon, 2017), Le Parc Saint Léger, Centre d’Art Contemporain (Dorne, 2017), the Galerie Bugada & Cargnel (Paris, 2017), the Galerie Air Project (Geneva), the Villa Medicis (Rome, 2017), the Galerie Double V (Marseille, 2017), the artist-run-space Sans Titre (2016, Paris), the Galerie Ceysson & Bénétière (Saint Etienne, 2016), the Galerie Jeanroch Dard (Brussels, 2015) or else La Friche Belle de Mai (Marseille, 2015) and at the CAC La Traverse (Alfortville, 2015). Romain Vicari is participating as a curator in the project produced by Le Collective in an abandoned church in Marseille during Art-O-Rama (September 2018).