Chidimma Nwafor (b. 1995, Onitsha, Nigeria) is a Lagos-based painter whose figurative oil paintings explore imagined memory, dreams, and the psychological space between absence and presence. Drawing from personal experience, she examines longing, sisterhood, loss, and transformation, creating dream-like compositions where memory, imagination, and reality intersect. Her work has been exhibited in Nigeria and internationally, including with Rele Arts Foundation, Kuenyehia Prize, and Mitochondrial Gallery. Nwafor was a finalist for the Art X Prize (2023) and Kuenyehia Prize (2024), and was shortlisted for the Cassirer Welz Award (2025). She holds a B.A. in Fine and Applied Arts from the University of Benin.

Caroline Sohie is a Belgian–South African multidisciplinary artist working across photography, architecture, and mixed media. Space operates as her primary lens through which she explores the human condition and the complex, often ambivalent relationship between people and their surroundings.

Her engagement with photography began in childhood, where she was introduced to analogue processes through working alongside her father in the darkroom, establishing an early understanding of photography as both a technical and tactile medium.

For Caroline, photography is a space of complexity and pause - an antidote to acceleration. She uses the medium to dwell in contradiction, to reveal tensions, and hold ambiguity. A photograph, for her, bears emotional weight, historical scars, and meanings that extend beyond its frame. Echoing Roland Barthes’ idea of photography as “a field of forces”, her work traces the friction between presence and absence, beauty and violence, belonging and displacement.

Much of her practice orbits around becoming: nothing is fixed, light shifts, time layers, identity evolves. Her images create reflective spaces that resist closure, inviting viewers into a state of contemplation. Rather than offering answers, she seeks to unsettle certainties and open new ways of seeing the world - fragmented, fluid, and alive. Her work engages themes of identity, power, and memory, alongside the transient nature of existence.

Caroline works between Cape Town, Brussels, and London. She is a member of the Through the Lens Collective in South Africa and was named a FRESH EYES 2025 Talent by GUP Magazine. Her work has been exhibited internationally, most recently in The Portfolio Parade, curated by Erik Kessels at MIA Photo Fair BNP Paribas, Milan.