Yuchen Hou examines how social media reshapes artistic visibility, gallery power, and the pathways through which artists are discovered. The essay asks how attention becomes recognition, and who still holds the authority to assign value in the contemporary art world.

Rexhibit’s Artist Talk with Ai Deng explores her practice across illustration, animation, sculpture, and bookmaking, tracing a shift from dark social fables and existential doubt toward works that use natural materials and physical interaction to explore connection.

Aleksy examines how we find meaning in abstract art through material, artistic decisions, and the viewer’s own experience. Moving between Carl Andre, Duchamp, and the language of the art world, the essay argues for a slower, more personal way of looking, where interpretation begins with what is actually present in the work.

Moving between architecture, design, photography, and writing, Vivienne Yu Zhang treats creation as a process of overflow, discipline, and translation. This article reflects on Rexhibit’s first Artist Talk and traces how intuition becomes form, how “JiaoJiao” reshapes perception, and how a stone may become nostalgia.

Artist interviews should do more than introduce an artist or promote a project. This article examines how precise questions can reveal process, doubt, memory, and decision-making, turning the interview into a method of reflection, interpretation, and long-term record.