WENDI YAN
As the AI increasingly divides fiction and reality, artist Wendi Yan guides us to question: “As an artist, I don’t fear the increasing blurriness between facts and fiction driven by AI so much as I fear that we lose awareness of how narratives shape our realities. Those with power are always promoting narratives that legitimize and strengthen their power.” Through her multidisciplinary practice, that encompasses scientific research in collaboration with MIT scientists, speculative fiction, with AI, Yan’s work challenges historic narratives through imaginative world-building.
Diana Orving
Former fashion designer and artist Diana Orving transforms textiles into living, breathing sculptures that inhabit and redefine space. Through her work, the artist is shaping immersive and sensory environments: “I think fashion could learn from architecture’s structural thinking, and architecture from fashion’s intimacy and adaptability. If both moved toward softer, more responsive systems—adaptable skins, living structures—we might dress and build in ways that are more human.”
Hanayrá Negreiros
Fashion scholar and curator explores how Afro-Brazilian dress traditions challenge dominant fashion narratives- from politics of archives to the transformative power of craft: “I’m particularly interested in how garments, family photographs, and oral histories can function as counter-archives, opening space for other narratives and timelines to emerge, especially those rooted in Afro-Brazilian experiences. These projects are both academic and personal, and I hope they can contribute to a broader conversation about what we consider as legitimate sources of fashion history.”