PAUSE: Class of 2020 Graduate & Undergraduate Exhibition Catalogue

II CLASS OF 2020 GRADUATE & UNDERGRADUATE EXHIBITION CATALOGUE

Paris College of Art

BFA COMMUNICATION DESIGN

BA DESIGN MANAGEMENT

BFA FASHION DESIGN

BFA FINE ARTS

BFA INTERIOR DESIGN

BFA PHOTOGRAPHY

MA DESIGN FOR SOCIAL IMPACT

MA DRAWING

MA FASHION FILM & PHOTOGRAPHY

MA INTERIOR DESIGN

MA PHOTOGRAPHY & IMAGE-MAKING

MA TRANSDISCIPLINARY NEW MEDIA

MFA PHOTOGRAPHY & IMAGE-MAKING

MFA TRANSDISCIPLINARY NEW MEDIA

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YOONJIN CHO Yoonjin Cho is a Communication Designer and Artist from Korea. Yoonjin was born and raised in Seoul, and has always been passionate about art and design in its many forms. In 2016, she moved to Paris to pursue a Design career at Paris College of Art. Her career began with a focus on Fashion Design, but as her work progressed, she developed a strong interest in Communication and Graphic Design, and therefore changed departments. Yoonjin Cho’s work has focused on social and cultural topics, such as the importance of proper gender and race representation, as well as the value of self-esteem in children and its potential to better human behaviour and relations.

Speak Out This project is linked to her previously written Thesis “Changes of Perspective in Disney Narrative”, which explored the way in which Disney movies, particularly Disney princess movies, have created certain social stigmas surrounding social norms, gender roles and relationships, and self-esteem. “Speak Out” is a card game which focuses on tackling self-esteem issues in young children and teenagers as a way to improve human relations and the overall self-image problem that exists in most individuals today. This card game consists of various situation cards which will raise questions on what the proper reaction to the situation might be. Players must submit solution cards and suggest the way in which the situation should proceed.

This interaction and problem-solution exchange is meant to spark discussion on selfappreciation and communication as a way to improve these skills in the players. This game will have plenty of more series.

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SAMARAH FENELUS Samarah Fenelus is a multidisciplinary designer from Atlanta, Georgia. She loves reading, making pottery, and watching films. Her design work is characterized by hand-drawn illustrative elements and her personal art often relates to concepts concerning literature, spirituality, mysticism, myth, and dreams. She enjoys making illustrative artwork with a variety of mediums, one of which is film and video.

Samarah’s thesis concept pertains to how films related to dreams and memory demonstrate Carl Jung’s theory of a collective unconscious. In her essay, she describes how the neurological process of dreams metaphorically reflect what dreams reveal, since when dreaming, the most primal parts of the brain are most active while the rest of the body is paralyzed. Her cinematic visual project relates to scenes in the films, Inception, Waking Life, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and La Jetée, to demonstrate how the complex journeys of their characters reflect Jungian concepts.

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CLAUDIA MURILLO Claudia Murillo is a Communication Designer from Costa Rica, based in Paris. She is strongly interested in involving political topics into her work, such as human rights and the importance of equality for intersectional women. As an Editorial Designer, she enjoys making grids that allow a dynamic layout: creating movement to connect text and image in editorial spreads, and motivating readers to be interested in written content. She appreciates choosing non-conventional formats, such as square format magazines, in order to be able to experiment with layouts to create something different. As a strongly politically involved designer, Claudia makes design choices that back her values, such as choosing typefaces designed by women or ethnic minorities, and making sure that the paper she prints on is ethically produced.

@clm_arte / @latinas.diversas www.clmarte.com

#LatinasDiversas Claudia’s Thesis project consists of a Street Art and Social Media campaign in both English and Spanish, that focuses on representing Latina women in a realistic and diverse way: as opposed to the stereotyped, hypersexualised and objectified perspective shown in mass media. This campaign features illustrations of real Latina women, who she contacted and interviewed. The goal of this project is to raise awareness and start a discussion about stereotypes and discrimination towards Latina women, which is not a topic often talked about, and that largely goes unnoticed.

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JULIANA ZU STOLBERG Multicultural graphic designer, more directed towards fine arts with an organic approach. I function with instinct, love to research a topic, its colours and forms before starting designing. The history of the topic / object is a major part of the aestheticism I thrive for. As an illustrator, nature is a big source of inspiration, I try to be as pure as I can be in the drawing process. I love to write and draw in various styles, I am curious and a never-ending learner. I aspire to study Art Therapy later on. I work a lot with child-like imagination, am not politically engaged and I like to question big topics taken for granted. It is a pleasure for me to research before starting the creative process. Analysis and creative thinking would be my motto.

The mediums I use are varied, my techniques range from artisanal book binding and oil painting to the graphic tablet, according to the work and topic I am working on, the materiality and craftsmanship of the projects are a major concern for me. (ex; butterfly wings , printed foulards, theatre backgrounds ‌) Project Art Therapy and its misconceptions was the title of my thesis, as I deconstructed the myths englobing the psychological method that helps people, I realised I needed to test it on my own to see and feel its mechanisms. While I researched it, I spent months with 4-6 year old children teaching them how to draw with emotions rather than with the mind. To demonstrate on one hand how much the mind influences drawing, and why it is that adults have a harder time expressing themselves through drawing then children. And on the other, the huge change there is from two drawings before and after discussion. I ended up hanging the drawings as a mini exhibition with the before and after showing to everyone how a child evolves comparing drawings from raw to after discussion of the drawn topic. Letting people conclude on their own whether Art Therapy is a path to follow for themselves and their surroundings.

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MERCEDES DE LA PARRA

@mpddesign / @xqsoy_latino www.xqsoylatino.org www.mercedesdelaparra.com

I am Mercedes de la Parra, a Mexican American student with a desire to bring humanitarian efforts into branding and advertising. I am dedicated to bringing a light to humanitarian and civil rights issues in contemporary society through all my personal design work. My thesis looks at the current situation regarding Latino Immigrants in the United States since Donald Trump became president.

Trump has been using the power of presidency to detain and stop the entrance of what he refers to as “killers” into the country. He has managed to change the rhetoric concerning immigration to one that relies on violent words, creating an inaccurate and highly demeaning representation of the issues as well as a negative stereotype of the Latino community. Trump’s rhetoric has been a catalyst of violence during his few years as the leader of the country. Today, more than ever, Latino immigrants living in the U.S. are terrorized and in “hiding”, when all they are looking for is a better quality of life with greater opportunities. The situation and how the government has been handling it violates human rights. The immigrants are being treated inhumanely are unjustly portrayed. After analyzing the situation for Latinos and looking at the different ways people have been using their voices to bring attention to the subject of immigration, I came to the conclusion that there isn’t much aimed towards the Latino Community themselves, and how to bring a sense of hope to each of them personally. Latinos have shown progress like no other ethnic group in the history of the United States, affecting the society in a way that holds onto their strong ethnic culture and beliefs while at the same time shadows the most revered American values of hard work, advancement in education and building community. The youngest and fastest growing demographic, they are creating the new American Mainstream with their unique imprint. XQSOYLATINO is a campaign that empowers Latinos living in the United States, who are fighting for the lives they deserve, by giving them a voice. In the end, we hope to inspire and give reassurance to Latinos that they can come out of the shadows by bringing them hope on their place in the present and future. XQSOYLATINO inspires a community of Latinos that are proud of their roots and their stories. Their progress in the changing and evolving mainstream of the US will bring empowerment and hopefulness towards a new footprint creating a positive outlook for all Latinos, now and in the future.

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EMILY LOGAN After working for the Kardashian-Jenner clan as an Assistant Stylist and in other capacities as an Assistant Marketing Manager for top Los Angeles salon, Cie Sparks, Emily Logan began her corporate career working for Equinox, the pinnacle of authoritative and innovative wellness brands in the United States, immersing herself within the Luxury Lifestyle and Wellness Industry entirely. With over three years with the brand, the brands, her role was to serve the entire Los Angeles region of eight high-profile, urban clubs. As a part of the Marketing team, she executed brand initiatives in tandem with the Public Relations and American Operations team to create, develop, manage, and coordinate thoughtful and innovative wellness-centric programming to carry a cutting-edge and provocative brand forward.

More recently Emily was a Freelance Marketing Strategy and Creative Consultant for London-based luxury brand Rêve En Vert. Her work with the brand covered in depth analytics and a strategic approach to their media, communications, and overall digital strategy. She also worked on other freelance projects from Paris Fashion Week in the scope of PR and Digital Strategy as well as on assisting on Digital Strategy re-imagination for Hermès with HEC, and other clients within the fashion, luxury, and wellness sectors. From Digital Strategy to Creative Experiential Marketing, Emily’s work with her clients is immersive and thorough being results-oriented in a way that, in tandem, prioritizes the elevation of brand image. She was able to work with LVMH at Dom Pérignon in Paris, France, as an Assistant International Communications and Media Project Manager. Her work in international markets with both the Lenny Kravitz (2018-2019) as well as the Lady Gaga (2020-2021) creative direction campaigns prioritizes the execution of multimillion dollar brand and media campaigns via an omni-channel communications strategy. During this experience she has worked with top creative agency, TBWA, in execution and development of key creative assets. Cultivating the management of Dom Pérignon’s owned media platforms as well, her attention to detail and methodological eye for brand strategy is unparalleled - both visually elegant and strategically executed. Emily is completing her Bachelor’s Degree in May 2020 focused in Design Management from Paris College of Art - a pedagogical focus that has allowed for a unique perspective on how impactful the arts and creativity are in impactful marketing communications. Her studies included formations at HEC Paris in Digital Marketing and Luxury as well as FIDM in Los Angeles in Marketing and Visual Communications. She is a soon-to-be masters student in continuation of her mastery in Marketing and Communications with an emphasis in focus on Luxury.

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BERFU KARAKAYALI Being born and raised in Istanbul, between Europe and Asia, defines my whole vision as a designer. I’ve always been fond of the conflict between east and west, yet existing in a harmony. My passion for fashion started in very early ages by admiring my mother, my role model, who has always inspired me with her sense of fashion.

After coming to Paris for my fashion studies I’ve had the opportunity to fully experience the European culture that allowed me to discover architecture, modern art and design, which evolved my vision. After taking a year off from college, and doing two long-term internships in Istanbul I got to apprehend technical aspects of production and the business part of the industry. Getting experience in the real world provided me the knowledge I need to integrate creativity and technicality together.

My work talks about social and political issues of my country within its cultural existence. It is a representation of my personal dilemma between tradition and modernism. Within this you’ll find a mix of styles and prints that is my signature.

High quality and elegance are the key elements that I won’t compromise in my designs. This senior collection aims to empower Turkish women and bring a new perspective to fashion in Turkey. Transitioning the traditional art “ebru” to unique modern prints aims to prevent its extinction and implicate it to the modern lifestyle.

Each print can only be created once because it is on water, which makes it unique.

Giving this idea and partnering with the NGO Foundation For The Support of Women’s Work I aim to support slow and ethical production by giving women the opportunity to work with a fair pay and be independent from men.

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JULIETTE VUILLAUME As an artist, I work hard to develop garments that speak upon social injustices that happen to be environmentally friendly. Part of my process is to find an issue that speaks to me, and the things I want to learn more about. Once I have decided upon the subject of interest, I want to find a way to create the garments in a way that corresponds with the values of the environment. I want to bring awareness, passion and interest to the issue, to create a beautiful art piece that can bring people joy by wearing it. Prisoners of War is the collection of garments that talks about the people impacted unjustly by war throughout time. For example, children, women, forced youth, and the civilians whose lives have been impacted. War is a huge impact that I wanted to learn more about and discover its impact upon me and my life. I want each garment to represent their stories, the impact of war on them, and how that impact is rippled into today. During this time of “war� said by Macron, I made clothing from old curtains, sheets, and blankets to create the fabric of the garments, to create a reuse cycle. I have embroidered quotes, symbols, and images to personalise the garments to truly create unique pieces for each perspective. The clothing I have created are simple garments that people can create on their own, especially in a time of need.

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ADITI aditi, b. 1996, bombay.

I am a fine artist focused in 4D (time-based) media like video, sound and performance. My works tend to be experimental, exploring the process of creation as a tool with which to philosophize the fundamental questions of existence in a postinternet context. I like to situate my work at the intersection between science and spirituality, attempting to ask and answer questions to do with the natural laws of the universe. While a scientific approach to this gives certainty, a spiritual approach keeps you grounded in moments of uncertainty. Together, they work as a balanced whole.Born and raised in India, surrounded by a culture where religion dictates the socio-political processes of everyday life, I developed an aversion to institutionalized spiritual practice and the framework it operates within. I gravitated instead to individual spirituality, and found my own through creative practice. Some of my work is inspired by the performance works of Marina Abramovic, Yoko Ono and Ana Mendieta. In my own practice, I perform and conduct rituals that follow specific protocols. The rituals are designed with a specific intention that is limited to the context they are being conducted in. Hence, the rituals are normally never repeated in their original form. For my first show, titled sleep room, I performed tapings, a private interaction between the artist and one participant. The participant was asked to sleep on the floor as I covered their body with tape, creating a cocoon around it. These cocoons were subsequently removed and displayed on a wall. During the process of creating this work, I studied various theories about the sleep state of the brain. There aren’t many of these and most remain unverified. With this work, I attempted to formulate my own theories to answer the question ‘what happens when we are asleep?’ On the wall adjacent to the cocoons, a video projection played on loop - documentation of a dancer’s answer to this question as expressed through movement. My work investigates the unconscious realm in an effort to seek and present the universal truths.

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LUCY BLACK Lucy Black is a multimedia artist, Lucy Black works with the mediums of photography, painting and performance. No one knows how old Lucy Black is or where Lucy Black originates. In her only known interview in 2020 Lucy Black said,”My work explores subversions of reality. I do this by telling stories through the combination of familiarity and absurdity. I pull formal influence from the world of theatre, being that of set, costumes, props, character and lighting. My earlier photography used the narrative language presented by the natural world. More recently, I have begun stripping down the settings to create a sense of void - a space without context. Using black backdrops, the viewer’s only point of reference is the subject, giving little for the eye to rationalize. I pull stories out of this void and force the viewer into the suspension of disbelief.” Lucy creates ‘tchotchkes’, objects and prosthetics, to be photographed as props in the scene. Using materials such as latex, tape, foil, hair and trash, the props further interfere with the familiarity of the figure and the scene in general. Her practice is one of experimentation which constantly blurs the boundaries of a medium. She uses mold-making to borrow forms directly from the human body, which become manipulated and disrupted by her use of more ad hoc material processes. The combination of the hand-made body parts with unmanipulated human form evokes a sense of dissociation. Lucy shoots medium format 120mm film, which allows her to intervene with the physical film more easily when developing it in the darkroom. Working in the darkroom is an integral part of her process, it allows for a fluid construction and deconstruction of an image. In the darkroom she isolates certain parts of a developing image by making paper stencils or masks, allowing light to reveal and conceal different areas, guiding the viewer’s eye like theatrical spotlights.

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IOI CHOI

@ioi.choi

Ioi Choi is a 22-year-old multidisciplinary artist born and raised in Macau, China.

Her passion for dance has been present early on; her training in classical chinese dance and ballet led her to be able to represent the Ieng Chi Dance Association and perform for cultural events such as the “Macau City Fringe Festival” and “Heritage Stroll with Poetries”, hosted by the Macao Heritage Ambassadors Association.

After graduating high school, Ioi moved to New York City to expand her knowledge in dance through the one-year International Student Visa Program in Broadway Dance Center. She trained extensively in ballet, contemporary and urban fusion, predominantly with teachers and choreographers such as Jamie Salmon, Phil Orsano and Maleek Washington. The artistic charge and cultural resources of the city also allowed her to learn and grow as a young artist. Alongside the medium of dance, art has played an important role in Ioi’s form of self-expression. In 2017, she decided to move to Paris to pursue a Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts, which she completed in 2020. Rooted in dance, her fine art practice seeks to visually translate the gestures of movement. Her education enriched her understanding of movement and space through learning the technical skills in painting, drawing, sculpture and installation as well as critically approaching the conceptual development in her work. Throughout her undergraduate education, Ioi continues to explore the medium of dance and performance outside of school. In 2018, she performed in “The Seed Eaters (Noir)” directed by Emily Mast at La Ferme du Buisson, a center for contemporary art in Noisiel. She also worked as a cabaret artist for 6 months in 2019 at Pink Paradise on Champs-Élysées, Paris.

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FARYN FEE Faryn Fee is a multi disciplinary artist working predominantly in the field of sculpture and video installation. She is originally from a swampy beach town in southwest Florida. She relocated to Paris to receive her Bachelor of Fine Arts from 2016 to 2020 at Paris College of Art. During that time she spent a year abroad studying at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Her practice of art is a meditation on the dynamism of consciousness at large. From an investigative lens of philosophy, science and mysticism, she utilizes research to conjure notions of spirituality, connectivity, alchemy, and mythology into her sculptural effigies. In an elaborate process of birth, decay and ultimately transformation of materials, her sculptures, fueled by the ever elusive psyche, grow into an otherworldly landscape. These materials include but aren’t limited to clay, papier-mâche, plaster; along with found and grown organisms from nature. The results vary on spectrums of desirability and repulsion, chaos and balance. From the formal elements to the conceptual ideologies, A polarized narrative of duality is pivotal at all angles of her work.

Stemming from the allegory of ‘As above, So below” she constructed a microcosm extracted from a dimension of the unconscious to create a dramatic tongue-‘ncheek investigation of ‘the Self’ and the connection to ‘the whole’. The videos which accompany said microcosms teeter on the air of performance as she films herself with a GoPro camera in complete solitude exploring remote locations in nature.

“One head in matter, One head in hyperspace” a phrase coined by the artist after Terrence McKenna has served as a motif in referencing her generations reflexive obsession with self representation and ultra-connected nature. In a certain irony, she plays with this dialogue of lusted self representation and Self realization, which we seem to be confronted with ever more as we detach from our intuitive forces of nature and reassemble into the emergent digital era.

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ARI JIMENEZ HURTADO

@gloomyboyish www.ari-jimenez.com

My artwork stems from the idea of narration; I aim to tell a story by creating a series of my drawings. Currently, I’m focusing on the ideas of memories as I am interested in capturing the sensations and moods I associate with past events. I am particularly interested in childhood memories, as these tend to be memories we vaguely remember or have completely forgotten. Our memories have the power to transport us to the past, I’m curious to recreate and relive my youthful spirit. A key point to my work and its subject matter is my personal journey back to my childhood by wearing costumes, building forts with pillows, drawing with crayons and watercolor, etc. I connect with my Venezuelan roots which are filled with colors such as that of clothes we wear, the way houses are adorned, and events like Carnival and Diablos Danzantes de Yare. Through my drawings, paintings, and installations, I add an element of melancholy by my subject matter, the forgotten memories; the connection my color palette has with infancy, where I feel that I am reconnecting with past memories, reliving them through my art. As a result, I created a melancholic palette that consists of pastel colors. My materials vary from inks, textiles, to graphite pencils and I generally focus on paper-based media concentrating on mostly figurative illustrations in a serial format. I create narrations by laying out the memory and the story behind them; I sketch and experiment with how I can tell this story, such as through creating storyboard illustrations laid out in a serial format. Arriving at my final design, the idea of narration guides the viewer through a series of scenes, creating a connection among people. Throughout my practice, I create my own story, relating back to my childhood daydreaming, inventing my own characters and settings. My work brings these characters to life, taking into account their unique personalities and role in the stories.

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KATINKA I was born in China and at the age of 11, I moved to England to attend an all-girls boarding school. Growing up in a dual cultural environment made me become intensely aware of the cultural differences in the treatment and behavior of girls.

Spending the majority of my teenage years living in England surrounded by girls clarified the eastern ideology of femininity that I was exposed to in China. This discord between and within the cultural systems I was a part of created an inner conflict of how I should behave. Being raised in a Chinese household, the realistic, and intimate sides of femininity were not to be acknowledged or expressed. My questions about intimacy and anxieties attached to womanhood were rarely answered. In Chinese culture, self-respect is considered a separate sphere to the bodily experience of womanhood. At school in England, the open discussion of these topics proved deeply shameful to me; I was reluctant to contribute or engage in a discourse of feminine experience because of the nature of my Chinese upbringing. My multi-disciplinary artistic practice, predominantly painting, drawing, and filmmaking, challenges censorship in China and my resistance towards the honest discussion of femininity and sexuality. Through my painting and drawings, I explore ways to defy the romanticized side of femininity and sexuality in China that caused me a great deal of confusion and anxiety growing up. I do this by narrating women in grotesque and bewildered scenarios. I subvert traditional Chinese techniques by incorporating the use of ink, watercolor, Chinese texts, and Asian paper with olive oil. The repeated use of olive oil is my way of fusing the east and the west in my work. Chinese texts are often written incorrectly in my work, to obscure their meanings while emphasizing my fear of communicating sentiments with words, especially in Mandarin. The recurring act of self-censoring in my work was again rooted in my early upbringing. My work allows the act of self-censorship to be embraced as a tool to reflect the consequences of the reinforced female ideology I was brought up with.

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HARRIET RYU “I’d rather be a woman than a lady, any day.” - Natalie Haynes, 2015, The Second Sex

@rougeriette harrietryu@gmail.com www.harrietryu.weebly.com

I am a multi-media artist, currently focusing on performance art. Being able to show your darkest and most hurt parts to an audience that can share empathy with you can be a source of power and support, allowing both the victim and the bystander to become a part of something called a ‘performance’ which essentially becomes a cathartic healing process. I also draw, paint and sculpt to ground myself. Different to performance, these mediums are primary to me; their tangibility allows me to connect with my work more so than performance. Drawings are done without a specific concept or a model; I usually use compressed charcoal as the main medium.

Paintings are are a way of collecting movements; I investigate abstractions of space using different mediums on large canvases, primed with sunflower oil. Currently, I am focusing on the materiality of different textiles and the traces of oiled pigment on canvas. Subject matters vary ranges yet remain fundamentally figurative; from simple movement studies of the human limbs and their reaction to mediums such as pigment and oil to a more specific political study of current political issues regarding violence against women. More than just being an artist of the 21st century, I strive to be a voice for feminism, speaking out against violence against women and racial discrimination. Binding this together with trauma and recovery I have done extensive research into these topics to make sure that the information I share is correct and up to date. These concepts are widespread through different mediums and always documented thoroughly as a method to research further into my own concepts. I produce art as a way of communication; it is a method of translation. Words limit us with languages, but art does not discriminate language, gender, sexuality or race.

Coming into this new decade, it is important to be a voice for what you believe in and to be educated to share those thoughts. Ignorance is no longer an excuse.

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GURBAAZ DUGGAL Gurbaaz Duggal is an interior design student at Paris College of Art, born and raised in New Delhi, India. Gurbaaz started off as a painter in his high-school back in India, which eventually led to his interests in Design field Gurbaaz often was interested in spaces and their relation to, us humans. He gained much more interest and a bit of experience in Interior design as he graduated from high school and got in the New School of Art and Design, San Diego, California. Studying there for a year, Gurbaaz later transferred to PCA, and continued his studies as an Interior Design Student.

Project Gurbaaz’s final project is a Vegan Culinary Arts School, being a foodie himself, he also saw a major increase of “Veganism” in today’s world. He had to choose an open airy space, which lead him towards the “Point Éphémère” building in the 11th Arr, Paris, got a nice canal view next to it as a plus point. Gurbaaz’s design is based on selfsustainability in both food and space of his project, hence providing a green house space within his project, which will eventually serve as a vegetable garden for the school and the restaurant space. A use of environment friendly product and materials in the space was also one of his major constraint and an opportunity as well.

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JAMIE FINNEGAN Jamie Finnegan is an American photographer and visual artist living between Paris and New York. Born in 1997, he uses 35mm and large format film to explore relationships of color, texture, and materiality. Jamie’s work is inherently structural; to him, fashion, architecture, and landscape are all structurally similar, and are constantly built through environmental and human action. Through carefully selected film chosen for color and grain, Jamie is able to extend the physicality of the forms he photographs to the physicality of the image itself. Often creating his works to become geometrical shapes or large installations, his photographs analyze connections between positive and negative space, interiors and exteriors, and body and object. He has done work for Vogue China and Y/Project, and aside from imagemaking has also worked corporate positions at Prada, Miu Miu, and 3.1 Phillip Lim.

@therealslimjamie jamiefinnegan5@gmail.com www.jamie-finnegan.com

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SELIN ALEXANDRA GĂœRERALP

selinalexandra.com selinalexandrastudio@gmail.com

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My photographs are grounded in how I see myself and others. I like to interact with others in such a way that I deny my own ego and allow another person to shine, which I have found brings me a lot of joy. In my pinhole portraits I combine my perspective of nature and humans. I am fascinated by mankind’s relationship with trees. On our Earth we have all we need, nature gives us everything without us having to ask for it. Being and relating to nature allows me to see how my perception is connected to the perception of others and how these differ but make up a greater web connecting one another. I like to experiment with alternative processes like cyanotypes because this process draws from the elements of natural world that I feel tied to. There is something about the tactile elements of a fruit or a flower and the power of nature that exists when using what belongs in nature to create an image. I experiment with what helps me to express myself freely. Using alternative processes allows me to express myself beyond just the present moment in order to express more tactile ideas. My first experience with an analog camera was when I was about 12 years old. It didn’t go so well and I ended up exposing the roll of film to light rendering my photos non-existent. My first real foray into the world of photography was around my first or second year of college. I had the opportunity to take an elective darkroom class and I fell in love with the process of developing film. The combination of the scientific process, the steps of using chemical in the darkroom and the ability to capture feelings or a mood in a person through a still image fascinated me. Photography for me is a process of discovery. I continue to discover new ways that images can be made and incorporate these into my process.

The world of photography is limitless to me in comparison to a world that can be full of limitations. Alternative and experimental image making give me a sense of freedom, which I hope also transfers to the viewer.

OLIVIA GHALIOUNGUI Olivia Ghalioungui is a 21 year old photographer currently based across Europe who works with both digital and analog photography. Born in Athens in 1998 and brought up in between Cairo, Egypt and Antiparos, Greece, she focuses mainly on fashion, portrait, travel and diaristic work; topics and subjects include human vulnerability, the connection with our surrounding environment, and the concept of “home”. After attending grade school at Cairo American College from 2005 to 2016, at the age of 17 she moved to Paris to pursue a career in the fashion photography industry, while travelling all over the world to nourish her eyes and create series, and has since been interviewed for Creators Magazine and Page Magazine. She has also assisted for magazines like ELLE, Grazia, Numéro, Sorbet, and SCMP Style, as well Robert Koch Gallery at Paris Photo 2018. Publications include ELLE Arabia, Vogue Italia, Vulkan Magazine, Creators Magazine, and KODD, among others, including interviews for Creators Magazine, Page Magazine, and Frameload. Clients include Marie De La Roche, Lo Neel, La Lune Official, Tiane ‘Tenui, and more.

@oliviaghalioungui oliviaghalioungui@gmail.com www.olivia-gha.com

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FREDDERICK KARABELA Fredderick Karabela is an image-maker and creator who was born in 1997, raised in London, UK, and now completing a BFA in Photography at Paris College of Art. Fredderick has always been captivated by landscapes, particularly the beauty and chaos that these might contain. His work focuses on representing the constant juxtaposition between man-made and natural elements in order to raise questions about humanity’s impact on the environment, and on their own society, whilst also consistently questioning the self and human mind. Before attending PCA, Fredderick delved into to the sports world, specifically extreme sports, having teaching qualifications in kayaking and skiing. These elements have inspired much work through a connection to nature and sensitivity. Fredderick’s work aims to create both a social and environmental impact, starting by creating discussions and questions within his audience.

@27freedons www.fredkarabela.com

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Crossover Crossover is a project with the aim of expressing themes and questions related to solitude, sport, nature, and photography as a defined medium and how each of these are connected and perceived. This project combines the two realms of being an image-maker and athlete, for an audience to view a rare perspective of sports photography, with a dedication to showcasing nature at the heart of his practice.

The relationship between the sport and its natural environment is fundamental to the way humans grow, perceive the world, and explore their own psyche through both solitude and community. This project depicts anonymity through faceless figures and recognisable natural scenes, creating a presence of solitude and allowing the audience to immerse themselves into the project.

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NATALIA ABRIL Born in Bogotรก, Colombia, Natalia Abril is a social researcher and creative with a sharp eye for visual literacy centered on the expansion of sociocultural understanding. Before earning a Master of Arts from Paris College of Art (2020), she was a graduate from the University of Utah (2017) where her interest for social research first flourished. After several years of academic research within multiple institutions, including New York University, and scientific conferences, Natalia returned to her creative roots. Although her work as a creative stems from the world of photography, she is an avid lover of all arts and literature. She is also a student of all-things coffee and has performed various roles in the tech industry throughout her professional endeavors. With experience as a social investigator, photographer, and writer, Natalia strives to continue working toward the proximity between art and social consideration as the base of future artistic works.

Project With an interest in the interjection of social sciences and art, her current research observes photography as a democratic tool in contemporary movements of representation and power. As part of her MA thesis, Natalia developed and conducted a research project emphasizing on a different approach to documenting social and cultural phenomena. Namely, she investigates what granting more agency to the subject does to the framing of photographic works in terms of raising public awareness with different narratives and sees this as a shift from capturing to collaborating with the subject. As a result, she delved into book-making, both writing and design, along with the collaboration of several documentarians and artists. Unframed aims to highlight photographers whose work align with her theoretical argument. Natalia seeks to shine light on creative processes and methodologies that lay ground for the creation of collaborative narratives. She believes visual storytelling has the power to disseminate social understanding beyond the presumed reach of traditional education and hopes to inspire artists from all backgrounds to reconsider their responsibility as global and cultural storytellers.

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MAN CHEN Man started performing on stage, as a dancer, at the age of 9. She has always been fond of theatre and shifted to the production after entering Taipei National University of the Arts to study theatrical design, where she majored and obtained a BFA degree in Lighting Design in 2012. Upon graduation, Man started her career as a professional lighting designer and programmer. In 2013, she co-founded a visual company and she assumed the role of Lighting Director. She was also head of the accounting department as well as responsible for managing collaboration with other artists, and stage crew. Her design has a distinctive psychedelic style with unique colours. She was nominated for the Professional Lighting Designer award at the 2017 World Stage Design. Hoping to be a perpetual student, enjoying every opportunity to learn and devote to society, she decided to shift from theatre to social design. Man moved to Paris and studies Master Design for Social Impact as her first step to social design. She wishes to bring her skill to this domain and have an impact on society.

Project Man launched an art program for the homeless people in Paris, this program is in cooperation with the American Church in Paris. In their project “100 Now�, they host homeless people, asylum seekers and refugees every night as a night shelter, which is performed daily in winter for a hundred nights. Every night, 10-16 homeless males come into the church’s gymnasium to stay for the night. She went to the gymnasium on weekend evenings or mornings and gave participants one to two hours of art programming. As a facilitator, she used the art therapy methodology of expressive and mindfulness art therapy to design her sessions and exercises. The program is a success and brings a positive impact as a service in the shelter.

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ELENA CORTINA CASTRO Elena Cortina Castro is a Mexican creative based in Europe. Driven by curiosity for understanding processes and with work experience as a project manager in both the textile industry and digital marketing, she aims to find integral solutions to multidisciplinary projects. With a Master of Arts in Design for Social Impact, from Paris College of Art (2020), her work at PCA has mainly focused on studying the way local artisans integrate into the Parisian scenery by participating in projects that encourage the preservation of know-how. Elena yearns to have a positive impact with a humanistic approach in contemporary issues.

Creativos de la URBE Creativos de la URBE is a project featuring the creative talent of Mexico’s urban population. It provides readers a wide range of mediums to explore and the contact information of young creatives from urban areas. By profiling different personalities of the Mexican creative industry, this project aims to provide visibility of process as representation of the spread community of young creators from the cities.

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JANANI IYER Janani is a visual communicator from Mumbai, India. She did her undergraduate studies in visual communication and digital design at Ecole Intuit Lab. She continued to pursue her graduate studies in art direction and brand design from the same school in Mumbai. Janani discovered her love for children’s welfare at a young age watching her mother teach young students and the joy she imparted to them. Her decision to pursue a course in creating social impact was primarily driven by her inclination to find ways to use her skills to devise solutions towards a specific cause. She will graduate in May 2020 from Paris College of Art with an MA in Design for Social Impact. She is passionate about children’s welfare and mental health awareness in India. She has worked with various non-profit organizations that support young children. Through design, she wishes to create an impact in children’s lives in India by providing them with tools that enable them to gain access to education, equip them with information to make their own decisions and dissolve the disparity between privileged and underprivileged children in her society. She participated in Poster4tomorrow in 2015, where her poster for Universal Access to Healthcare was selected amongst the Top 10 posters worldwide. She wishes to continue her design career and work towards children’s welfare as an ongoing personal project in the future.

Project Through her thesis project, Janani has chosen to tackle the challenge of addressing access to information on mental health care in schools in urban cities in India.

Mental health is considered taboo, which has led to an increase in the number of adolescents suffering from mental health adversities. Her project will be implemented in the form of a toolkit -- which will be based on the current Life Skills Education program, that can be used in schools in urban cities in India. The objectives of this toolkit are to destigmatize mental health as a subject, to increase awareness through teachers for the benefit of students, and to provide the right kind of education for students to express their concerns appropriately. Her aim is to create more awareness in design, empathy, and effective communication. She hopes to take small steps and enable young children to become better future citizens of India.

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DANIELA MONTER Daniela Monter is a Mexican designer, conscious of the impact that design has in the world, and how it can be implemented as a solution to social and environmental problems around the globe. She holds a bachelor’s in Industrial Design from Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM) and an MA in Design for Social Impact. Her goal is to use human-center design methods to design products, strategies, and services that respond to the needs of the users and their environments. As a designer, she thinks that design could and should be a tool for social change. Through her career, she had the opportunity to contribute to different social projects through design by teaching courses of Design Thinking in Mexican communities. She has worked in various nonprofit organizations and associations around Mexico, like MY World Mexico, an organization whose main objective is to mobilize people to implement, finance, monitor, socialize and evaluate the SDGs in Mexico.

Uniendo voces: Spanish from joining voices.

Inspired by stories and life journeys of many women in her environment. Daniela presents a communication toolkit to help Mexicans to better understand gender violence towards women. This toolkit is the first step of a project whose objective is to build a communication bridge between institutions in Colima (MĂŠxico) fighting against violence towards women, with the victims or possible victims of this violence. By providing women synthesized information about the issue, this project aims to inform women about gender violence and to help them understand their situations and rights. The project is presented as a webpage targeted to young women living in the city of Colima, Mexico. Inside the webpage, women can find information about: the definitions of gender violence, what they can denounce according to the laws in Colima, the contacts to institutions fighting against the issue, and more resources to learn more about gender violence. Uniendo voces is joining the efforts among different institutions in Colima fighting against violence towards women.

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SEGYO OH Segyo Oh is an educator and social impact designer. A global citizen from eight different countries, with an addition of experiences from a variety of cultures beyond her “homes.” Working in multicultural environments is where she thrives and feels the most at home. She got her Bachelor’s degree in art education and French education, and taught at an international school for a few years. Although teaching was a rewarding experience, she wanted to do more with art. There were social and environmental problems she saw and experienced growing up. Convinced that design was the answer, she set off to PCA to create social impact through design.

At PCA, Segyo has designed on topics regarding digital sustainability, international development, school governance and youth empowerment. As a designer and educator, Segyo believes that through empowerment, others can be equipped to make a change. In May 2020, Segyo will receive a Master’s in Design for Social Impact. Her goal is to use education and design to empower others to make a change through social entrepreneurship.

EEM Malawi, one of Segyo’s home countries, has an exciting future ahead with almost half of the population being youth. Entrepreneurship Education Malawi (EEM) aims to provide a clear and practical tool to empower youth through social entrepreneurship. Social entrepreneurship is rapidly growing in Malawi, but resources are limited to most as incubators are hard to reach due to poor infrastructure. Due to physical and economic constraints, those who have the means of growing are restricted. EEM uses WhatsApp Business in order for youth to be empowered and be educated in social entrepreneurship. Through an individualized plan and group dynamic, each member of EEM creates their own social enterprise through a series of lessons and questionnaires.

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LEA OUEIDAT Lea Oueidat, born 1995, in Beirut, Lebanon, graduated from the American University of Beirut with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (2017) in Graphic Design. Lea worked for two years at a design agency in Beirut whose focus primarily revolved around cultural design, branding, and communication prior to her enrollment at Paris College of Art’s MA in Design for Social Impact (2020). Lea is an animal rights activist and a nature enthusiast; uniting her passion for design and nature, she has always made sure to include a social dimension in her projects. Lea’s work has been exhibited, published and rewarded by various institutions such as the Lebanese Ministry of Environment. Lea will continue utilizing her design skillset to continue raising awareness around environmental and social problems taking place in our world today.

Alternative Menagerie As a thesis subject, Lea adopted animal welfare in the realm of the animal entertainment industry. Menageries, although living proof of continuous animal abuse and mistreatment, are still considered a casual outing. Lea focuses on the technological advancements acquired by organizations contributing to the paradigm shift within this industry. Through her platform entitled “Alternative Menagerie” she advocates responsible alternative choices aiming to entertain, educate and centralize all pioneers stimulating the shift. The campaign aims to create an interaction with animals through an Augmented Reality approach, an interactive and playful tool supplementing the user’s real-life surroundings with computer generated animals. The current series, embodying four wild cats, invites the user to learn about the cats’ similarities and differences. The campaign’s interactivity and playfulness incentivize the user to learn about the available alternatives reflecting the aim of the campaign’s slogan: “Choose Alternatives”.

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TALINE SHAHINIAN Taline Shahinian is a multimedia artist from suburban Southern California. Having moved to Paris at age seventeen to study the arts, she graduated from the American University of Paris in 2019 and plans to receive her Masters degree in drawing from Paris College of Art in 2020. Since moving to an urban city such as Paris, Taline has become interested in anthropology, more specifically how humans interact within their environment, which is reflected in her work. As a multidisciplinary visual artist, her works range from illustration and photography to collage and writing. She views her work as a diary or compilation of studies, as she documents, draws and responds to people or scenes she sees in daily life.

Artwork 8 to 7 is an experimental diary comprised of drawings, collages, photographs, writings and responses to scenes viewed or lived while traveling through the Paris metro. As a daily commuter, I realized that my time on the metro was initially spent listening to music or reading a book, completely oblivious of my surroundings.

This realization prompted me to become more deeply rooted in what I was seeing and hearing in my daily journey. I am drawing people, architecture, patterns, signs, writing and recording sounds. Materials used in this project, such as the free newspapers and posters, were gathered from the metro, inspired by the Dadaist collages, which my dissertation explores. I consider 8 to 7 as more of a personal journal than a book, as I explore a range of media, playing with materials that felt right for the subject matter. Sketches and writings were made on the metro, as they were quick observations from life, requiring minimal materials. Other works, like the collages and paintings, were later made in response to situations I had experienced prior to that day or week. The square format was chosen as I felt symmetry was needed to juxtapose the diversity of the content presented within. Compiled into a single work, I hope it can remind viewers to slow down and appreciate the day-today, seemingly mundane moments of life, as beauty and inspiration can be found within them.

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TAMARIND COTTEW Tamarind Cottew (Born: July 22, 1997) is an Indonesian visual artist living in Paris.

She produced works by various media: painting, sculpture and photography, but considers herself as a photographer above all. She is known for her works in portrait and fashion photography. After living in Indonesia all her life, she moved to Paris, France where she attended the American University of Paris. She received a Bachelor’s Degree in the Fine Arts and Minor in Film Studies and Art History.

Now she is pursing a Master’s Degree in Paris College of Art’s in Fashion Film and Photography program. In her early works, she attempted to mostly paint and draw landscapes, still life’s and portraits. She is influenced by several artists such as Arie Smith’s expressive depictions of tropical landscapes, Sandro Botticelli’s painting of “The Birth of Venus” and lastly Michel Angelo’s sculpture of “David”. While living in Paris, Tamarind Cottew is influenced by the avant-garde history of art. Developing a better understanding of the Renaissance, Baroque and early 19th Century era.

Tamarind was interested in paintings that depicted movement of the bodily figure and portraiture. “I am a visual artist. My artistic background allows me to express different mediums: drawings, painting and photography which have seeped into my works. I am influenced by photography, although it has not been my primary practice, it has always been a passion and is influential to me today. My work captures the beauty in people and places, to which I am captivated by the fragile and textured features of the human body.”

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OMRI ROSENGART Omri Emil Abraham Rosengart (December 11, 1989) is a photographer who was born in Paris and grew up in Tel Aviv, Israel. After serving in the army and by his early twenties, Omri started to contribute to the local Nightlife in Tel Aviv and began his business career. By the age of 25, he co-owned several hosting businesses such as The Alphabet, Concierge, Garnish and Room 140 pushing his career and contributing to the local scene. Alongside his business career, Omri began to model professionally at the age of 22, working with most fashion brands in the fashion industry In Israel; he participated in campaigns, fashion shows and worked from time to time in the European industry too. By the age of 27, he finished his first degree in communication in The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, a well-known and leading college. After finishing his bachelor’s degree in communication, in 2017, Omri switched his interests to photography and fashion by feeling he doesn’t find his spot in his business career. After spending a few months in New York in 2018, he decided to move back to Paris and settle for his MA in Fashion, Film and Photography at Paris College of Art. “My main goal is to be better in my actions while exploring the limitations. I believe in the process of learning, and as simple as that sounds – I’m curious for knowledge. If what you seek is to change the rules, you first must learn them. I’m hungry to succeed in what I do while leaving my fingerprint behind, therefore, to make my work timeless. I’m a creator. I use what reality offers me, as I’m the one who creates it, to write my own story.”

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LUKAS RUSILAS Lukas Rusilas (born December 24, 1994) is a Lithuanian photographer and videographer with a background in advertising and marketing. Based in Paris.

Lukas went to study at ISM University of Management and Economics where he got interested in marketing and advertising. While at his undergraduate studies, he started working as an assistant manager at the largest interactive agency in the Baltics - Gaumina. Influenced by the new media he continued to pursue his career in advertising and worked as a marketing specialist. In parallel, he started exploring the creative side of the business and began to take images and videos.

After graduating from ISM in 2019 he pursued his career in creative media and went to study Fashion Film & Photography at Paris College of Art. Now he is considering himself as a visual storyteller. Taking videos and images from portraiture, lifestyle to fashion he is focusing on how to tell stories of others through his perspective.

“I’ve always been interested in how brands tell their stories, and the visual element caught my attention. Isn’t it fascinating to create the reality that people want to believe? Today by composing a narrative behind the camera, I help my clients to tell their stories. Besides photo and video, I am interested in different fields of art and self-expression: music, fashion, and surfing, all of it give me an artistic direction. The way I see the world determines how I take pictures. I am trying to avoid orchestrated scenes. With appreciation of raw simplicity and natural beauty, I want my work to look more realistic, rather than idealistic. I embrace light and shadows, which I feel sustain a mystery I want to convey more in my work. Mingling between both digital and film I think of a composition using current trends and an eye of nostalgia.”

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KETEVAN TKHELIDZE Ketevan Tkhelidze (born June 28, 1988), known as Ketevan is a Georgian-born, Parisbased fashion photographer. Alongside her practice as a photographer, Ketevan has also worked as a psychotherapist and psychology professor. Her first contact with the camera was when her grandfather gifted her a 35mm analog camera ‘Zenit’ for her 10th birthday. After finishing high school, Ketevan already knew which direction she wanted to go. She got accepted to Tbilisi State University, where she got her bachelor’s degree in Applied Psychology. She was always fond of languages, so she decided to study Spanish in Madrid, Spain, where she stayed for 6 months. In 2012 she received her master’s degree in Psychology. In 2014, she moved to Oslo, Norway and got another master’s degree in Philosophy of Special Needs Education. Right after finishing her studies she got a job as a psychologist. Following her graduation with a psychology degree, Ketevan discovered her passion for photography and pursued learning about this new craft. In the years following, she was accepted to photography school “Bilder Nordic School of Photography” in Oslo.

In 2019, Ketevan moved to Paris to follow her dream as a fashion photographer.

She is currently studying for a MA in Fashion Film and Photography at Paris College of Art. “I am a photographer who prefers to capture raw un-staged imagery.

Experimenting, and discovering who I really am, is the big part of my artistic journey. My style is little Rock & Roll and authentic. Fashion for me is self-reflection.

It has always been one of the most useful tools for carving a space for myself to experiment with my identity. It is like personality breakthough. This is a reason why I prefer to capture stories through clothes. I appreciate mystery in an image; uncertainty about what you are seeing is very fascinating to me. I want people to experience authenticity in my work. I certainly don’t expect from people to feel what I had in mind while creating my work. The viewer has a mind of their own and eyes of their own and they are going to see it their way, I just hope they look.”

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SARA BENSALEM Sara Bensalem has a background in Architecture and Health. She did undergraduate work at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) when she Majored in Architecture and PreMedical Studies. At the University of Texas, she worked on two award-winning Design-Build projects. The first is the NexusHaus, a sustainable home built for competition in the US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon (http://bit.ly/2miOrZH). The second project was Rise by the Gulf Coast Design Lab, an observation deck for viewing the endangered whooping cranes in Fulton, Texas (http://bit.ly/2kmkQxK). In both cases, Bensalem worked with a team of students, ranging from Interior Design, Architecture, and Engineering. These experiences showed her that it is essential to bring together multiple approaches in sound design. After her studies at UT, she did a graduate degree in Nutritional Medicine and Metabolic Diseases at the University of Rennes. Afterward, she went to the University of Florida where she did a semester abroad at Paris College of Art (PCA).

At PCA she worked with the Terra Foundation to do a research project on Women’s Voices in American Art and Architecture. After that semester abroad she joined PCA for a Master’s in Interior Design. Her research has focused on wellness design and creating positive health and wellbeing for people through interior design. She applied the lessons learned in her reserach to a colearning center that is being planned in Marrakech, Morocco.

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MIE LINE CHRISTENSEN Mie Line is a creative and dedicated Interior Designer from Copenhagen, Denmark.

She completed her undergraduate degree in Dublin, Ireland at Griffith College, where she was awarded for best academic achievement in her class. She now finds herself in Paris as a graduate student at Paris College of Art, where she soaks in architecture, art, and design while pursuing her Master’s Degree in Interior Design.

Interior Design has always been her biggest passion, and not a day passes without her feeling thankful for her field and what she does. Her time abroad has challenged her way of thinking and acting as a designer, and she believes it is essential for her future position to have worked with different cultures and architecture besides the one they have in Denmark. As a designer, she would describe herself as bold, problem-solving, detail-oriented, and creative. She has a distinctive taste and style and she is not scared of using vivid colors and textures. She is passionate about concept design and applying design thinking to projects. She thrives working on designing for good and pays great attention to details. Through her design, she hopes to inspire individuals in a creative environment and thereby make a positive impact on people’s everyday life. In the future, she hopes to create an interior design brand, in which she will also design furniture. Her background makes her a multifaceted person that manages to solve the problems that arise, both effectively and innovatively, with openness, recognition, and an expanded horizon.

Project Through her thesis project, Mie Line has chosen to research and design a cohousing community. She was inspired by the current living situation around the world, as many people suffer from loneliness. She wanted to create a socially sustainable place, where the community would be key, and diversity would be celebrated. She came up with cohousing, which is a mini-community with big open areas, that encourages residents to have more interaction with their neighbors despite any demographic differences. The community will be located at Les Frigos in the 13th arrondissement. The design reflects the history of the building and is industrial, playful, and colorful. Her concept “Celebration of Diversity” is shown through a variety of colors, materials, and elements. It is a statement as much as a place.

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HIMANSHI JAIN Born and brought up in Delhi, India, Himanshi Jain has always been open to diverse backgrounds and cultures. She has always been in close connection with her family and friends who instilled in her a particular sensitivity towards human relationships.

At a young age, she had started developing compassion and empathy towards people around her and their individual thinking. Throughout her life, she has always been fascinated by the organisation of spaces and the way humans perceive them which is why she chose to pursue a Bachelors in Architecture from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (India). The practical training that she received in the final year piqued her interest towards interior designing. She began to realise how the quality of spaces where we live in impacts our lifestyle. And therefore, she decided to pursue a Masters in Interior Design from Paris College of Arts. Here, she had the opportunity to experiment with different approaches that helped in shaping her mind in particular ways. The driving force behind her artistic style is an enduring interest in spaces; in the human spirit, its emotional resonance and the way over time these spaces manifest in our relationships with ourselves and others.

Hence, her work is a constant search for the best way to interpret the ideas that she has about herself and the world we live in. She tries not to limit herself to one medium, style, or concept but often considers the theory of colours. The materiality of the space we surround ourselves with affects our senses and shapes our personality in many unknown ways. In her designs, she explores this “middle ground” where function and aesthetics meet.

Project With her keen interest in the ideology of biophilic design, Himanshi’s thesis design project addresses the challenge to design a co-working office where people meet organically, hold common values to share and at the same time feel relaxed and secure. The design focuses on increasing employees’ well-being by incorporating biophilic framework in a co-working space primarily dedicated to designers in the field of architecture and interior design. Her design includes specific zones such as a quiet zone with personal workstations; collaboration/social zones; casual open work areas; work hubs to accommodate small groups and cafe-like areas; and conference room suites. Her aim is to create awareness on the inclusion of biophilia, that is, naturalistic elements and patterns inside a workplace which helps to increase cognitive function, creativity and satisfaction level of the employees.

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RISHMA MADNANI “Your space is what speaks about your personality.” – Rishma Madnani Rishma Madnani is an interior designer who is currently pursuing her MA in interior designing from Paris College of Art. She completed her under-graduation from ITM University in India, Mumbai. She has done her internship at KNS architects, one of India’s leading firms and now working on a collaboration with Quatorze, a Paris based firm. Being an interior designer and catering to the needs of the people is something she is extremely passionate about. She believes that a space defines a person. Over the past 4 years she has worked on numerous projects as a part of her academic as well as professional work. Rishma has worked on different typologies of residential spaces. She takes special interest in planning of these spaces and optimizing the use of every corner of it. She has also worked on an 8000 sq.ft commercial space in addition to retail as well as hospitality projects.

Rishma has been awarded for one of her residential projects in her state in India.

About her design style, she takes special interest in the materiality of the space and the sustainability aspect of it. Her masters project is inspired from this. Rishma has focused on studying materials that have been used in vernacular architecture.

Bamboo is the material she researched specifically. Her final project is a boutique hotel that is constructed using this material. The hotel has different typologies of hotel rooms each one of them depicting a different concept, form and use of bamboo. Her main goal through the project and paper is to promote the use of this material.

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SAGRIKA SARAF I am Sagrika Saraf. I am an Interior Designer. I don’t consider my work to be a piece of art. What I do is my understanding of people inhabiting a space. It’s my interpretation of lifestyles and human behaviour. All I intend to do is to give my client a space that satisfies his/her needs. I trust my interpretations and base my work on it. I always try to use my design to create innovative design solutions.

In the current project that I am working on, I am trying to design modules for the various artists working at the Montmartre artist’s square, Paris. The idea is to create a module that also doubles as a public seating unit when the artists are not using it.

The module is movable and can be adjusted according to the season and the need.

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HELEN HO You’re Here Now Presented in retrospect like a diary, the photographs shown are a personal archive of images taken from 2012-2016, when first learning how to use the 35mm analog camera, and darkroom techniques. Simultaneously, these photographs were taken at a time of personal turmoil, at the peak of a heroin addiction lasting from 20122016. The collection of photographs depicts the daily life of a heroin addict, and invites exploration through the revisiting of images of simple life observations and fleeting moments. The camera was used as a tool and allowed the photographer to leave traces of existence and engage with the world, allowing validation of these experiences during a tumultuous time. The intention remains to demystify the life of a drug addict through the banality of these photographs, as the artist wishes to contradict the stereotypes of hedonistic and degeneracy often held about drug users. Helen Ho (born in New York, 1993) uses photography as a tool to better understand the human experience through visual documentation, that serves as a tangible manifestation of her sense of curiosity in the world. She seeks to use photography in order to evoke the same enthusiasm for learning about what it means to be human. Helen studied psychology at Baruch College of New York in 2011, transitioning halfway through her schooling to focus on photojournalism and multimedia reporting. She graduated with a BA in 2016. @helenhophotography helennyc926@gmail.com Helenhophotography.wordpress.com

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CHRIS LEE Faux Paris Weaving through day and night, we move in flux between structural restraints and societal expectations in search of belonging. We navigate the city whilst the city navigates us. Quietly observing the relationship between people and the urban environment, this work intertwines poetic vignettes depicting remnants of protest, capitalism, desire and solitude. By framing street scenes, architecture and nature like visual metaphors to our own struggles and emotional tensions, it serves to question how the city can sculpt our identities and personalities. Chris Lee (born in U.K. December 1986) is a photographer and filmmaker based in Paris. His visual language is loosely inspired by story archetypes and the collective unconscious, touching on solitude, black humour and internal conflicts based on his own personal experiences. The nature of photography provides him with an illusion of truth whereby he can begin to dissect reality and create new stories.

Before obtaining a Masters Degree in Photography and Image-Making at Paris College of Art, he attended Central Saint Martins University of the Arts in London 2006-09, studying Visual Communication, and later achieving a Visual Storytelling diploma at Les Gobelins, Paris, 2019. His documentary photography has been featured in The Guardian, National Geographic and Creative Review Photography Annual alongside many online features such as I-D, Dazed and It’s Nice That. @street.eye thisischrislee@gmail.com Thisischrislee.co.uk

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The Lives of Others Human conflicts like war, migration and displacement bring out extremes in human behaviour. Paradoxically, they have also helped in the establishment of new societies, rebuilding and rearranging existing ones. These conflicted and often untold human emotions and expression associated with displacement is intriguing when juxtaposed on time and geography. This photobook project is a documentary of two families. On one hand is a young and progressive Pakistani family who migrated to Paris three years ago. With hopes and aspirations of a better future, they find themselves in an alien culture, trying to stay rooted to their own way of life.

On the other is an Indian family who migrated from Bangladesh in 1971 during the war of independence. The scars of conflict and forced migration deep within their psyche, is evident in their expressions, environment and material memories. Both display contrasting expressions, body language, surroundings, memories of past and present, and reactions to migration. Capturing these moments and telling these stories, reveals in its allure and internal conflicts, some unique interpretations.

Shruti Mukherjee is a photographer who lives and works in India and Paris. She is a visual storyteller with ideals that mix nostalgia and modernism, a move towards modifying traditional beliefs in accordance with modern ideas. She documents human conflict, migration and displacement, building narratives through a montage of expressions, in the backdrop of history, society and time. Before completing her Masters Degree in Photography and Image-Making at Paris College of Art, Shruti completed her Bachelor of Art from Delhi University and a diploma in Journalism.

She worked for a newspaper briefly, before she started working as a graphic designer. In 2015 she decided to work for NGOs devoted to culture and education, allowing her to explore her skills in photographic storytelling. Her photography project titled “Auschwitz: Site as History, Eye as a witness” was exhibited at Guwahati Artists’ Guild, India, in 2019.

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CAROLE DANA Carole Dana was born in 1996 in Beirut, Lebanon. She lives and works in Paris, France.

She graduated from Paris College of Art with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (2018). She attended SAE Institute for Film Studies. She is currently completing her Master of Fine Arts in Photography and Image-Making at Paris College of Art (2020). Carole Dana is a documentary photographer whose recurring themes consist of the human condition, survival, and urgency. In 2019, she exhibited in “La Nuit de L’Art - C’est Éphémère” associated with Tanthem organisation and exhibited her series “Gilets Jaunes” & “Refugia” in La Jonquière, the cultural center for current art promotion.

She has also exhibited in Le Bateau Lavoir (2018), Mi galerie (2018) and Galerie Joseph (2017). Carole Dana’s most recent works display for the first time the culmination of her photographic endeavor in the Gilets Jaunes movement that she started in November 2018. The series is comprised of three chapters that take the form of a book edition. The first one captures crucial moments from the movement as it thrived through the weekly protests in the streets that portray a different viewpoint to the generalizing present media coverage. The second consists of portraits of individual protesters taken in their homes that represent their individuality and their differences. Lastly, the third chapter consists of studio portraits of individuals who were injured during the protests that illustrate this topic in a new light. Intertwining all three chapters provides a multifaceted point of view on the subject that invaded everyone’s quotidian life in France.

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LUCAS PANDOLFO Lucas Pandolfo was born in 1995, in Porto Alegre, Brazil. He lives and works in Paris, France. He graduated in filmmaking from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil in 2015, and is an MFA candidate in Photography and ImageMaking at Paris College of Art, Paris, France (2020). He exhibited a solo show at [a sala] in Porto Alegre in 2017 and at a group show at Centre Anim’ Jonquiére in Paris, France, 2019. As an image-artist and filmmaker, his work deals with the poetics of everyday life and how technology and late-stage capitalism affect contemporary living. He mostly works with analog 35mm photography and digital smartphone images.

Waiting To Wait Some More Waiting To Wait Some More is an installation about the feeling and concept of waiting. It is shaped like a waiting room and contains many of the objects one would expect from it. The television works as the center piece, but instead of entertaining those who are waiting, it broadcasts a video-essay on the topic.

www.lucaspandolfo.persona.co

Waiting to wait some more, installation shot, dimensions vary, 2020

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IRENE ANTONIA DIANE REECE Born and raised in Houston, Texas, lives and works between the United States and Europe. She graduated with her B.F.A (2018) in Photography and Digital Media from the University of Houston and currently M.F.A (2020) candidate at Paris College of Art in Photography and Image-making. She exhibited a solo exhibition in 2017 at Lawndale Art Center in Houston, TX; in collective 2018 at Le Bateau-Lavoir in Paris France. She’s currently exhibiting work for a collective exhibition in 2019-2020 in Paris, Barcelona, Utrecht and San Antonio, Texas. Her series Billie-James will be exhibited at the 5th Biennale Internationale de Casablanca in 2020. Her array of photographic works, appropriated films, usage of text, and found objects create an insight towards issues that revolve around racial identity, African diaspora, social injustice, family histories, mental and community health issues. She identifies as a contemporary artist and visual activist. Her recent work questions society’s perspectives on her racial identities and combats the social norms in regards to being a Black Mexican woman living in the United States and Europe. Her work pushes boundaries and forces her viewers to confront issues that are deemed difficult to tackle.

@reanie_beanie www.irenereece.com

Black Souls Are Humming, inkjet print, 16in X 20in, 2020

Protect Black Girls, inkjet print on a fan, 8in X 10in, 2020

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KENDALL ROTH Kendall Roth was born in 1992, in Billings, Montana. She lives and works between Montana, Paris, and Arizona. She graduated with a BA in Photography from Montana State University (2015), and is currently an MFA candidate in Photography and Image-making at Paris College of Art, Paris, France (2020).

@kendallrothphotography www.kendallrothphotography.com

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Before it Slips Away Before it Slips Away is a photographic image series about memory. It focuses on the impressions left by someone in our minds or in a specific memory and the space and shape that a memory takes. Before it Slips Away uses the negative space of the paper, as well as the missing pieces that have been hand poked to reveal that there are different ways of telling and viewing a story. Much like describing a dream, speaking of a memory, or even seeing an old family photograph that is not yours, it is difficult to describe the experience. By tracing and “revealing� shape of my grandmother in these images, the physical manifestation of memory comes alive. The texture of the white paper images gives a tactility to the memory and the shapes. The portrait broken up into a grid and placed on the ends of the piano roll boxes reveals the puzzle-like nature of compiling a memory of someone. Some pieces are missing, some seem out of place, depending on perspective, and others are just words that help make up the person. Perspective is very important with Before it Slips Away because the light that passes through the poked holes of the black paper images illuminates more in specific areas, highlighting the feeling nature of memory and inability to focus on a point for a long period of time. The portrait on black paper with black in seems to slip into the paper, and changes by the viewers perspective. The cyanotype circular canvas is an important statement piece in Before it Slips Away. It plays with negative space by removing the subject from the original setting and removing details of her face. By isolating the portrait and showing lack of detail, I hope to bring a physicality to memory.

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ISABELLE HOONAN Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, Isabelle is a writer who also identifies as a visual artist. Graduating from the Transdisciplinary New Media Masters program, her focus is in writing but primarily storytelling in multidisciplinary forms. Identifying as a visual artist as well as a writer, she finds inspiration in poetry and visuals that inform the audience about her own inner discovery that they may relate to. Her work focuses primarily on research writing and creative writing. Paris has brought her back to writing poetry and painting again while staying at Fondation des États-Unis, where she has been an artist-in-residence. Analyzing interpersonal and intrapersonal connection is the base of how she writes, influencing the questions she asks and the subjects she seeks to understand better through telling their story through her writing. Looking deeper at where people call home and the boundaries of their interior walls — how they explore, or wonder while sondering — is a driving inspiration in her multimedia writing. As a final project, Isabelle created an interactive PDF manual for teachers titled,“Creative Teaching Strategies for Implementing Virtual Reality Into Classrooms.” The goal of her work is to help give teachers a chance to make their classrooms even more creative by using VR to generate empathy abilities within students. Her thesis, “Virtual Reality as a Tool to Generate Empathy,” provided research for this topic. As the daughter of an educator and alternative school graduate, exploring creative learning and teaching was another outlet to explore her interests. Paired with Virtual Reality and Empathy research, she hopes that this final project will serve as a useful guide for educators, students, and VR content creators.

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NATHAN STARCHILD Curiosity is my main driver. Most of my work starts with the question “I wonder how I could do that?” or, I’m just trying to satisfy my fascination, “I wonder what that would look like?”. I’m obsessed with geometry. I love shapes, symmetry, structure, minimal forms, the fundamental building blocks of the universe. I have an irrepressible urge to create these shapes in whatever medium I can get my hands on, harnessing the energy of my fascination, and distilling it into a meaningful experience for participants in whatever context I find myself in. Currently, I am focussing on participatory art, interactive light installations and generative code art. Participation is at the heart of my practice. I do not consider observers when creating my work, rather participants.

The outcome of my work, then, is not a commodified object but an active aesthetic experience. Claiming the body of the participant, and requiring them to come into presence and connection in a way that is all too uncommon in our alienated and entertained society. Community, then, is another key focus of my work. I am seeking to understand how to use the elements of structure, form, lighting and performance to create a space where participants feel comfortable, safe, centered and invited to interact with and connect with each other.

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FLORINA VEDAMUTHU BALAVENDRAN Florina Vedamuthu Balavendran is an Indian Fashion designer born in Tamil Nadu.

Coming from a country that is rich in craft, she has an openly emotional and even passionate viewpoint for the arts and crafts tradition. She graduated from the National Institute of Fashion Technology in 2017. After finishing her undergraduate degree, she worked as a luxury leather goods designer at Tritan Private Ltd. After leaving the job working as a leather designer, she opened her own small workup to experiment with her dream to build a couture brand. She worked in small scale projects as a bridal wear designer. In order to expand her skillset in technology, she moved to Paris to pursue a Masters’s degree in Transdisciplinary New Media from Paris College of Art. Her practice explores biomimicry in the juxtaposition between contrasting elements: fragility and strength, tradition and modernity, fluidity and severity. Her unique aesthetic vision is now sustained through her transdisciplinary approach to design by combing fashion and new media. She is currently working as a textile designer and multimedia artist at SARL Heart Heart Heart, Paris.

Under the Skin Under the skin, is an expression of the euphoric feelings that connects the body with memory and reality. As the title suggests, the collection intends to provoke one’s curiosity to get deeper to the collection. The term is an oxymoron placement of prints where the juxtaposition of the blood vessels pattern and vein pattern becomes the surface. The project expresses the notion in the elaborated visuals embellishing the surface of the garments. The theme is sustained throughout the clothing line in heavily pigmented tones of red. Colours become the key element that reflects the aesthetics of the title, Under the Skin. The collection highlights the unison of fashion and technology where the past techniques are interpreted in futuristic concepts. The focus on combining the physical and digital world experience is sustained through virtual presence of the collection in Augmented Reality. Through the collaboration with Multimedia Artist, Iracema Trevesian, the project expands the possibilities of Augmented Reality to visual space. The blurry connection between memory and reality is enhanced through virtual experience.

While the craftsmanship of the garments in gravity defying silhouettes gives an outwardly experience in the physical world. The combination of the extremity aspect of this collection creates the mood of the future.

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JONATHAN BRANDEL Jono is an award winning graphic designer and computer programmer. He comes from mixed heritage, an American of Filipino and Polish descent. As such Jono pairs distinct subjects to frame the creative process. These combinations range from music and images through typography and animation to lithography and pixel sorting. While pairings vary, there is a consistent and accessible tenor to the digital and physical objects he produces. This attention to detail allows people to access complex subject matters including positivism, the collision of black holes, and music composition. Jono’s work offers considered respite from the fatigue of the attention economy. The Transcode Series comprises three works that explore technology’s ability to connect and art’s capacity to question. These pieces are realized through the gesture of juxtaposition. In the first piece, Lost Treasures Found, the forgotten escapades of gladiator turned academic Encolpius juxtapose Latin and Emojis.

In des Objets Reconnus the computer’s perception is presented as a side by side comparison of image and text in hundreds of famous oil paintings. And in Harm to Ongoing Matter, the “Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election” is attached to the club ambiance of Paris’ Nuit Blanche through novel visual jockeying (VJ). These projects offer new ways to look at and understand pervasive cultural artifacts that live with us everyday, whether at the forefront of our attention or lurking in our collective subconscious.

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TAHIRA KARIM Tahira Karim is a mixed-roots artist working with time, data and research, to create art relevant to the senses as well as to educational, gender and minority issues. Her evolving pieces are reflective of time’s ability to alter everything, and can be explored through body and mind as the activation of participants is taken into consideration.

She utilizes a blend of old and new craft and technologies allowing her a grounding in the material world, with a hand in the digital. As her works are explorations in pedagogy, nature and the multisensorial, they can be most closely situated to the neo-concrete art movement. Apart from her research-based practice, Karim enjoys working worldwide, with people and organizations who have a vested interest in the unconventional and educational. In her work as an educator and curator she uses creative problem solving and practical methodologies to form unique solutions. She holds a degree in animation from the Emily Carr University, Vancouver, another in education from the University of Victoria, Victoria, and a diploma of aromatherapy from Langara University, Vancouver, all in Canada. Over the last two years in her pursuit of her masters in Transdisciplinary New Media at Paris College of Art, she has worked on research which investigates the multisensorial side of fine arts. In her thesis she explored the use of multiple senses together in artworks alongside self-directed learning methodologies, in the hopes of generating expanded perceptions in viewers. Following the vein of her thesis, Memoment dans le jardin, her final project, formulates a multisensorial ‘moment in the garden’ installation where participants can examine nature through time and the five senses through: a soundscape, scents, video, candies, and enveloping sculpture.

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COLLIN KLUCHMAN Collin Kluchman (23) is an American researcher, experimental filmmaker, and video installation artist. He is currently working to receive his MFA in transdisciplinary new media at Paris College of Art, France (2018-2020), and completed an undergraduate degree in English literature and film studies at Colorado College, USA (2014-2018).

Along with creating sculptural multi-channel video installations, he has worked in documentary post-production, created projections for dance and musical performances, and directed music videos. He has received multiple grants to work in documentary post-production and commissions for collaborations with musical artists. His visual work centers around the complicated relationships between the natural world and video as an artistic medium with a conceptual focus on the philosophies of phenomenology and critical theory. His graduate visual work is titled “Death in Vision” and investigates baroque aesthetics to problematize the privileging of the visual world in western culture and conversely to understand vision as an embodies experience. His master’s thesis titled, “Participating in Doug Aitken’s Screen Places: How Screen Based Installations Can Merge Body, Environment, and Technology to Reflect Our Dispersed Present” centers around analogous themes

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