MIRROR GAZING

Looking back at this spring, we organised our first offline event, half party, half short-film screening. We have long been thinking about a format switch; to step outside the www and materialise. Cue Honey Pot by SWARM MAG. Several talented and attention-worthy young moving-image creators graciously lent us their works for the screening part of the evening, and we want to give them their flowers via this article.

French and Belgian artist Léa Porré excavates relics of our collective memory, translating her digital worlds into forged steel, jacquard tapestries, and stained glass. In today's interview, discover how the self-described dream archaeologist stepped away from the screen to stage impossible encounters with the past.

Ema Prosová's work doesn't announce itself loudly. Her drawings and paintings on silk operate in a register that's contemplative, layered, almost whispered: figures emerging from lychee fruits, hospital rooms floating in eerie space, architectural fragments mingling with natural forms. The work comes from years spent moving between cultures and techniques, learning lacquer painting in Vietnam, silk painting in Indonesia, living in Tokyo, and now finishing her degree at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague.

French painter and illustrator Sébastien Pastor navigates between naïve figuration and abstract expressionism, building visual worlds where bold color palettes pulse with rhythm and absurdity. Discover how his colorblindness became a creative signature and how he leaves room for the enigmatic in his works.