Chenzheng Ma’s artistic practice centers on portrait photography, with a longstanding engagement in fashion, commercial photography, portraits of ethnic communities, and gender diversity.

His visual style combines fashion aesthetics with cultural narratives.

Through perceptive observation and a refined photographic language, he captures the distinctive bodily presence and lived experience of each subject.
Throughout his creative and photographic process, he places great importance on mutual respect, trust, and communication with his subjects. He also continues to examine how the body, gender identity, and diverse lived experiences are viewed and represented through images. His work seeks to move beyond singular standards of beauty and established frameworks, allowing portraiture to serve not merely as a record of physical appearance, but also as a medium through which individuals express their sense of self, identity,

and lived experience.

Ljaljeqelan Patadalj was born in 1997. A Paiwan artist, he currently lives and works in Pingtung. His artistic practice primarily encompasses video, installation, performance, and painting, and has long explored the interwoven relationships among the body, labor, material culture,
and local memory.
In recent years, his research has focused on the “mechanisms of cultural formation.” Through object-based research and fieldwork, he examines how material culture is transformed and renamed through colonial encounters, trade networks, and cross-cultural exchange, and how these processes further shape local knowledge, collective memory, and cultural identity. Rather than treating culture as a fixed and unchanging tradition, his practice understands it as an ongoing process of formation that unfolds among bodies, objects, land, and social relations.
His work has been featured in major exhibitions, including the 2026 Taiwan Art Biennial and the 2023 Taiwan International Austronesian Art Triennial. He received the top prize at the 2024 Austronesian International Arts Award and was selected as a finalist for the 2025 Pulima Art Award. He has also participated in exhibitions, artist residencies, and cross-cultural exchange programs in Macao, Japan, New Zealand, Greece, Spain, the United States,
and elsewhere.

Johan Amatsakio is a writer, performer, game developer, and drag artist of British and Dutch-Surinamese Javanese heritage. Currently pursuing a master’s degree in Taiwan, their research spans the history of Javanese indentured labor in Suriname and the themes of politics and identity in the work of Leigh Bowery. Their ongoing practice examines the intersections of migration, history, culture,

and queer identity.
Adopting the persona of Bard The Beholder, a masked alien drag character, they are active in Taipei, constructing strange and imaginative worlds through language, the body, and performance. Their practice brings together environmentally conscious costume design, interactive live performance, game design, and other media. Drawing on migration, history, and horror as key creative elements, they explore their lived experience as a queer individual and examine how identity is shaped, dismantled, and reimagined across different cultural and historical contexts.
Put on your mask, shed your old skin, and carry with you the stories passed down through generations—Bard devours them all, only to bring them before you again in

an entirely new form.