Unseen Currents

Two emerging women artists whose work resonates with unseen currents are Luo-Han Chen and Phoebe Hardwick.

Chen’s paintings hold a sense of suspended potential – forms flicker at the edge of becoming, as if light and matter are remembering how to take shape. Her use of mineral pigment and silk keeps everything porous, alive to the movement between dissolution and emergence.

Hardwick’s women, by contrast, inhabit interiors where the body becomes a site of quiet resistance. Their hands, composed yet unsettled, holding the unsaid and transmitting something psychic, inward, withheld. In both artists’ work, gesture becomes a kind of language: the visible world answering the invisible one.