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Zohair Kherbik carves figurative sculptures from single pieces of olive wood, letting the grain guide forms that braid human bodies with Eastern Mediterranean myth — creation, transformation and continuity.
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London · United Kingdom · Interdisciplinary sculpture and installation — silicone, prosthetic processes, wearable artificial-skin textiles · 2026 · Summer 2026
Megumi Ohata is an interdisciplinary artist and prosthetics technician of Japanese and Korean heritage whose studio practice turns artificial skin into sculpture, installation, moving image and performance. They imprint their own skin texture into silicone, making detachable surfaces that can be worn, stretched, damaged and repaired.
Israel · Israel · Sculpture and site-specific installation (Styrofoam, cardboard, video) · 2026 · Summer 2026
Ronit Keret makes large site-specific installations from discarded packaging materials — especially white Styrofoam — that recall glaciers and other fragile landscapes. Sculpture, video projection, drawing and relief meet in environments that feel still at first and then unsettled.
Gold Coast · Australia · Interdisciplinary practice — water, bioplastics, photography, ecoacoustics, participatory installation · 2026 · Summer 2026
Juniper Sikora treats water as a collaborator rather than a subject. Through the ongoing Water Response Atlas she collects water from oceans, creeks, rain and canals, then photographs it, listens beneath its surface and works it into experimental bioplastics so that each place leaves a material trace.
Brooklyn, New York · United States · Works on paper, plein-air drawing, pictorial essays and paper installations about public monuments · 2026 · Summer 2026
Howard Skrill is a Brooklyn-based artist whose drawings, studio works on paper and screwed paper installations examine the afterlife of public figurative effigies — how monuments are raised, altered, removed and remembered.