Emerging Artists
New Voices, Now

Louise Giovanelli (b. 1993) paints like a cinematographer in slow motion, focusing on flickering details that most would miss. Based in Manchester and trained at Städelschule Frankfurt, she filters fragments of film, religion, and Renaissance art through a devotional process of repetition and revision. Her luminous canvases—shown in 2024 at White Cube in Hong Kong—reimagine celebrity and sanctity through cropped curtains, sequined dresses, and dappled light. With solo shows in China and Yorkshire this year, she’s commanding international attention for work that blurs spectacle with stillness and puts perception itself under scrutiny.

Chidy Wayne (b. 1981) draws with his eyes closed to unlearn certainty. The Barcelona-based Spanish Guinean artist moves between painting, sculpture and music, crafting a personal vocabulary of symbols—hands, wrestlers, taut lines—that speak to internal struggle and the search for meaning.

Formerly a fashion designer and illustrator, Wayne now distills years of technical discipline into gestural works that fuse ancestral memory with avant-garde clarity. His canvases reject the superfluous, favoring simplicity as a way to approach truth. “I have no answers,” he says, “but every time I do a painting I get closer, just by asking those questions again and again.”

Xin Liu (b. 1991) unravels the myth of permanence through dissolving sculptures, orbital payloads, and systems engineered to expire. Working between New York and London, the artist-engineer crafts works that resist stability and recast our understanding of time, ownership, and technological ambition.

Trained as both artist and engineer, with degrees from Tsinghua University, the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Liu blurs boundaries between science fiction and institutional critique.

Her practice spans sculpture, code, performance, and aerospace, with major exhibitions at MoMA PS1, the Hammer Museum, and the Shanghai Biennale, as well as commissions from M+, BMW, and Ars Electronica. With works in key institutional collections, Liu continues to expand the boundaries of both art and engineering.