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Sansan Books is a collective of artists interested in exploring the human experience and relationship with nature through photography and visual art. Currently, the group consists of four members: Xiao Yu from the Netherlands, Kimsunik from South Korea, Moeko Ishiguro from Japan – all photographers, and Ulu from China – who specialise in paintings and illustrations. They create their work using the medium of zines and artists’ books.
Each artist has worked with the theme of nature and human life, taking distinctive interpretations: the uncanny interplay between urban plants and human constructs (Kimsunik), the allotment garden as a metaphor for the immigration experience (Xiao Yu), the disorienting Dutch flower fields as a visual reflection on the subjective landscape (Xiao Yu), the sensational dimension of physical spaces (Moeko Ishiguro), and drawing nature’s beauty as an emotional escape (Ulu). Interestingly, this selection of work is inherently connected yet varies in artistic expression and conceptualisation.
Through this palette of flavours, the selection aspires to provoke and explore the intricate channels where human subjective experience, societal constructs, and natural forces intertwine and interact.