»Tohu va Bohu is a slippery and evasive phrase, found in the book of Genesis 1:2. Independently, Tohu can be translated as Formless and Bohu as Void or Empty, however together it can be understood as chaos, used to describe the world before God created light and order. Bohu is never used without Tohu and in turn the collective translation as ‘chaos’ is muddled into a murky Chaos/Formless/Void. It describes an anti time and place, an empty and desolate non-landscape. It hints at something barbaric and fragmented, to a time before light, order and civilized consciousness. It is from this knotted framework that this work is positioned, becoming an exploration for the archaic, within the perfect surface ‘screen’ of commodity and technology culture. Every element of the images in the piece has been meticulously constructed, adopting the tropes of the commercial aesthetic to critique the commercial itself. The subjects are artificially lit, abstracted bodies are positioned just so, becoming equally as object as the consumer goods. Furthermore, the images are highly edited in post production, leaving no space for error or imperfection. The images exemplify the surface, the black void of the ink-jet simultaneously seducing, and yet offering nothing in return.I am interested how basic tendencies such as desire, violence, vulnerability or emptiness can and do manifest themselves when commodity and mass communication envelops so many aspects of daily life. It is the search for the human within the synthetic; beneath the glistening plastic and liquid surface of the digital and product placement, a visceral humanity simmers.« Rebecca Scheinberg is an Australian-born artist, currently residing in London. Scheinberg’s  work has been shown internationally and was presented at the SPBH 89+ Marathon at the Serpentine Gallery, Night Contact Multimedia and Photography Festival and the Pingyao International Photofestival in China. Her graduate piece Tohu va Bohu (2014) was awarded the Hotshoe Portfolio Award, Flowers Gallery Award, Paul Smith Award and the Michael Wilson Award. Her work has recently been selected for The Telegraph: The Graduates, Wallpaper* Magazine Graduate Directory, the Art Catlin Guide 2015, British Journal of Photography’s Ones to Watch 2015 & the Duesseldorf Portfolio Review Metro Imaging Award.To view more of Rebecca's work, please visit her website.

"Kashgar, the former name of Kashi, the most western city in China. It was an important trading center since the time of the Silk Road, linking Central Asia and China. For centuries, the old city of Kashgar still retains the original streets and blocks found in old Islamic cities in Central Asia. History endowed the old city interconnected streets that resemble a spider web, the people living in it have a complex social structure. The adobe houses of earth construction are challenged by time and the changing climate, about 85% of the old city are planned to be renovated or reconstructed. How will the natives sustain their culture and identity in the judging eyes of outsiders and cope with the changes brought by the undergoing development? These photographs are not about ethnicity, religion or differences, but documents of everyday life. The old city of Kashgar is heading into the ocean of time as a giant vessel without steersman. I am witnessing and questioning the unstoppable inertia motion that carries this land of unease." YOU Li is a photographic artist currently based in Shenyang, China. Her work has been exhibited in Norway, UK, Japan, Taiwan and China. To view more of You's work, please visit her website.

LIN Shu (b. 1981, Fujian, China), Currently lives and works in Beijing. Influenced by the traditional Chinese philosophy, Lin uses the shape of mountains as a subject to communicate with the old world and ancestors while trying to understand the early Chinese artists' perception and cognition of mountains. In an artist statement, Lin writes that his work is an attempt to "trace and imitate the most valuable and fine Chinese tradition". Lin graduated from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. His work has been exhibited in France, Japan and China. Click here to see his book Toxic published by the Zen Foto Gallery in Japan. Here is a link to his website.

  "Photography is my freedom kingdom . Through Photography,the hidden emotions in my heart are released and get free. It accomplishes my imagination to the world. So I could freely perceive the world in front of me with following my instinct, to touch, to shoot, to get connections much more simply directly and poetically. Then I would be able to see the views which are deeper than the reality. At the moment of opening and closing shutter, all the memories of my life come out through the view before my eyes, then my vitality is awakened. What I face now is a complete free and egoless world, in here, my world is restored. Therefore, I am willing to indulge in this scene out of reality, no turning back." ZHANG Jian (b. 1978, Sichuan, China) , Currently lives and works in Chengdu. EDUCATION 1997-2000  Art College Of  Sichuan University 2008-2010  Photography institute of  Beijing Film Academy EXHIBITION 2015   “End of Time”, Lizard Art Gallery, Chengdu, China 2015   “Convenience”, ChiK11 Gallery, Wuhan, China 2015   “Exhibition of Chinese and Foreign Emerging Artists” Lishui Photography Festival, Lishui, China

"At the beginning of Christianity, Gyrovagi were wandering monks without fixed residence or leadership. Free from all dogmas, they were constrained by a strong link to nature and primitive matter. From wanderings and retreats in the Nature - those lonely periods which transform experiences and lead to self-interrogations - Constantin Schlachter developped an ascetic and instinctive photography, following the way of thinking of the Gyrovagi. With the pictures he realised, he creates a sensorial fction which resonate into the collective consciousness.

Between 2011 and 2015 he photographed his feelings by means of the landscape and its details. Using different media (cameras and microscope) and through analog and digital manipulations, he fxes the original emotion he experienced. Each medium and process corresponding to one specifc state of mind. Paraboles (Parables in english) is an inner-quest in mental landscapes, where the notions of micro-macro,organic-mineral are confused, thus forming a loop where subjects are constantly reinvented and transformed. Like in an alchemic process, those treatments are in order to re-unify the opposites and permits to the viewer to reach their own spiritual center.

The barrier of physical existence is damaged by the abnormal colours, subjects and textures. In this obscure and natural noise, primeval sensations of the human being, maternal caves and mystical creatures echo all around. With the confrontation of those symbolic images, a backcountry of the mind is created, leaving us to roam a mental realm dominated by Nature."

Constantin Schlachter (b. 1992, France) is an artist based in Paris who works mainly with photography. He exhibited an excerpt of his project Paraboles at the collective exhibition Fetart School Factory and with the FOAM Talent 2015. His work has been featured in publications such as Blow Photo Magazine, Foam Magazine and Phases Magazine.

Constantin Schlachter

"The funnier I am, the sadder I am, and the more serious my work can be. The joke is the repressed passion and desire to invoke meaning and to be understood. It is not simply a trigger to laugh at the dinner table. It is a far more existential laughter, a bitter joke that speaks of struggling with who you are, of not having a clear perception, or the lack of strength to create and build meaning, but full of meaning all the same, as it tells the story of searching. " Sophie Tianxin Chen was born in China and resided there until the age of 15. She has lived in three countries and five different cities since then. In 2010, Chen received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Film, Video and New Media and later in 2014 received a Master of Fine Arts degree from University of California, Los Angeles in Photography. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California, United States. Chen's practice is an active response to the constant relocating experience that she had at an early age. Her work explores the aloofness of identity in a post-colonial world and questions how meaning is always shifting according to the cultural and language context that one is in. To view more works of Chen, please visit her website: http://www.tianxinchen.com/