As we bring our summer residency season to a close, we invite you to join us for an intimate evening to meet our current residents and gain insight into their creative practices.

This drop-in event offers the chance to meet some of our current residents and experience new, existing, and in-development works presented across the Delfina house by Vvzela Kook, Jorge Morocho, Emel Aflak, Andrea Ferrero, Tatiana Kochubinska, and Yu-Ting Tsai.

Presenting Residents

Vvzela Kook (Hong Kong) is a new media artist whose practice explores the byproducts and outcasts of modernity, uncovering the architectural, ecological, and human narratives embedded within complex systems. Working across digital media, installation, and research-based methodologies, she examines the ways histories, infrastructures, and technologies shape contemporary understandings of place, memory, and coexistence. Her work often traces overlooked connections between human and non-human actors, revealing how systems of exchange, power, and representation continue to inform the present.

Jorge Morocho (Ecuador) employs subtle displacements, repetition, and irony to allow images to reveal their own contradictions between intention and form. Jorge’s practice is permeated by a constant drive to explore the internal mechanisms that build contemporary spectatorship. He often works with commercial or domestic images, approaching them as raw material that encodes desires tied to normative futures and mechanisms of control.

Emel Aflak (Syria) is a Damascus-based visual artist and researcher whose practice spans video, installation, and traditional printmaking. His work explores the intersections of materials, collective memory, and social fragmentation, often using nontraditional media such as ash and charcoal.

Andrea Ferrero (Peru) is a visual artist whose practice explores how architectures of power shape the way we imagine and move through the world. With glimpses of mockery, irony, and mischief, she translates her fantasies into immersive installations, play infrastructures and edible banquets – weaving political history with myth, prophecy and personal memory, and combining techniques that range from aluminium casting to ironwork and chocolate making.

Tatiana Kochubinska (Ukraine) is an independent curator, art historian, writer, and lecturer whose practice focuses on artists exploring the human condition and states of transition through deeply personal approaches. Her recent work has been shaped through collective curatorial methodologies, leading to a sustained engagement with questions of interdependence, post-traumatic ingrowth, memory, and the social legacies of the post-Soviet 1990s. She is particularly interested in how historical experiences continue to shape contemporary forms of relating, as well as in developing exhibition-making as a medium through site-specific and research-driven projects that connect local experiences with broader social and geopolitical processes.

Yu-Ting Tsai (Taiwan) is an artist whose practice moves across nature, history, technology, and corporeality. Trained initially in Mechanical Engineering and later in new media art, he integrates technological systems within installations, moving-image works, and mixed-media practices. Drawing from personal experience, his work explores relationships between selfhood, spirits, places, and histories. Through topological approaches to narrative, he creates multiple points of entry where fiction intersects with historical research and lived experience, generating layered worlds in which fact and imagination coexist. In his video works, Tsai often appears within the frame as both observer and participant, unsettling fixed distinctions between subject and narrative, presence and documentation.

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Our summer 2026 residency partners and supporters include: Rambourg Foundation; Artus Peru; EACHEVE; The Brooks International Fellowship Programme in partnership with Tate; Ministry of Culture, Taiwan (R.O.C.); Kiran Nadar Museum of Art; The British Council and Ukrainian Institute; Cheng‑Lan Foundation through the Harbour Exchange Fellowship Programme, in partnership with Para Site; and Delfina Foundation’s regional networks of patrons for Asia-Pacific, Latin America & the Caribbean, and the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia.