On Cover
Marita Setas Ferro
Artistic Director, Double J Collective & Creative Director, Marita Moreno
“Every Creative Object Has an Obligation to Provoke”
Cover Story
There are creative practitioners who work within disciplines, and there are those who move between them until the boundaries themselves become the work. Marita Setas Ferro belongs to the second category. Her career has unfolded across fashion, sculpture, fine craft, curation, education, brand direction, and climate advocacy in a way that might appear eclectic from the outside but carries a remarkably consistent internal logic.
Denise Carvalho
Few contemporary artists embody the intersection of artistic practice, critical scholarship, curatorial excellence, and cultural leadership as profoundly as Denise Carvalho. Over the course of an extraordinary international career spanning several decades, she has continuously redefined the boundaries between creating art, interpreting it, and preserving its significance for future generations.
GILDA
To stand before a painting by GILDA is to step into a world that vibrates at a frequency just slightly beyond the ordinary. The colours do not merely fill the canvas. They radiate from it, carrying an energy that is difficult to name but impossible to miss.
Samruddha Purekar
In a world increasingly dominated by algorithmic imagery and digital saturation, Samruddha Purekar stands as a guardian of something rare: the human hand’s ability to translate presence into permanence. Working under the name Samruddhartè, she has spent years refining a practice that refuses the dramatic in favor of the profound, choosing restraint over spectacle, and depth over immediacy.
Brian C. Baker
In a world where children abandon creativity for conformity, Brian C. Baker made a different choice at school recess: he chose to draw over play. This simple decision would set in motion a lifetime journey through the labyrinth of consciousness, where art becomes the bridge between the seen and unseen dimensions of existence.
Costel Iarca
In the world of contemporary art, the pursuit of originality often defines the path of a true artist. For Romanian born painter Costel Iarca, art has always been more than technique or visual expression. It is a lifelong journey of discovery, faith, and emotional reflection. With more than forty five years devoted to painting, Iarca continues to explore new artistic languages that transform human experience into vibrant visual narratives.
Synoj Sivan
There are artists who paint what they see, and there are artists who paint what they feel. Synoj Sivan does both simultaneously, and that rare convergence is what has carried his work from a childhood home in Kannur, Kerala, to the auction rooms of Christie’s London and Sotheby’s, to the sacred walls of the Mookambika Temple Museum, and to galleries and exhibitions across four continents. His paintings do not simply depict Hindu mythology and Indian tradition.