About
In Between Zones is an art project and loosely organised curatorial research practice that engages with diaspora, bordering processes, and contested socio-political realities shaped by uneven structures of power. Situated between contemporary art and situated knowledge production, it explores how artistic and discursive curatorial practices may open spaces for transnational, transcultural, and queer feminist dialogues across heterogeneous lived experiences.
Rather than understanding borders solely as geopolitical demarcations, the project examines bordering as a social, linguistic, cultural, and embodied condition that shapes mobility, memory, visibility, and everyday life. Through collective study, dialogue, and experimental forms of gathering, In Between Zones seeks to reimagine socio-cultural relations through fluid and relational modes of practice that move across disciplines, geographies, and lived experiences.
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In Between Zones – A London Art Guerrilla Tour (夹缝地带—伦敦艺术游击巡礼) is a long-term curatorial practice that unfolds through a series of situated, embodied, and tactical interventions across the city. Emerging from the lived realities of London’s newcomers and transient residents, this initiative engages with diaspora, spatial politics, and speculative modes of resistance. We invite artists and observers to craft new cartographies of connection, rooted in critique, intimacy, and rebellious imagination.
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Meet The Members
loose curatorial research and art collective
Founder of In Between Zones
Nicole Zihua Zhang
She is a researcher, art writer and curator. Graduated with a Master of Research in Arts in Exhibition Studies at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, her curatorial research interests focus on feminism, situationism, art activism, and decolonisation. She founded In Between Zones, a long-term art project in 2024, then initiated a scattered-site exhibition-event, In Between Zones – A London Art Guerrilla Tour, in 2025. Independent curatorial projects include “Zones of Estrangement” (Highgate Wood, London, 2025) and "In Between the Fields” (ChunYangTai Arts and Cultural Centre, Guangzhou, 2023). Her writings are scattered across The Art Journal, Artforum, Gallery Magazine, Collection/Auction magazine, and other outlets.
Founding member of In Between Zones
Ning Jiang
Artist and graphic designer. He graduated with a Master of Arts from Sorbonne University and is currently working at MAY Revue at the Cité internationale des arts.
Initiator of the Political Dumplings - Talks & Collective Cooking with Bordered Lives
Qianrui Hu
Graduated with a PhD in the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London in 2026. His academic interests mainly include the sociology of borders, war, migration, and ethnicity. Having started his PhD in 2021 before Russia’s full-scale invasion against Ukraine, he initially planned his field trip to Donbas to write about the everyday social dynamics happening in the background of the war there. Since the outbreak of the big war, he has focused on people’s reinterpretations of their wartime experiences in the Donbas between 2014 and 2022 in relation to the full-scale war. Besides his academic work, he has volunteered with organisations providing refugee relief, including KHARPP and Ukrainian House in Warsaw. His writings are scattered across Shado Magazine, TRAFO - Blog for Transregional Research, Civil War Paths, and other outlets.
Participating artist of the art guerrilla: Zones of Estrangement
Amanda Moraes Teixeira
Brazilian-born and London-based, Amanda Moraes Teixeira creates works that examine the relationship between body, materiality, and environment, focusing on how we experience displacement and navigate spatial boundaries. She views sculpture as fluid, interactive, and always in a state of transition. Working intuitively, she engages materials such as sandbags, tarpaulin, ropes, duct tape, and scaffolding through techniques like casting, sewing, and assemblage to create spaces that invite viewers to reconsider embodiment and forge new connections with their surroundings.
Teixeira graduated with a Master’s degree in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins (UAL). She was awarded two graduation prizes: a Graduation Art Prize Exhibition at Tension Gallery and The Spike x Central Saint Martins Postgraduate Writing Prize (2025). Her work has been included in several exhibitions, including La Hora Loca at The Good Rice, London (2025); A bruta delicadeza at Casa de Cultura Mario Quintana, Porto Alegre (2025); TBF… at Hypha Gallery, London (2024); See it, Say it, Unsorted at Central Saint Martins (2023); Des.view in Brazil (2022); and the Poster Quadrennial Bardejov in Slovakia (2021).
Participating artist of the art guerrilla: Zones of Estrangement at Highgate Wood
Bhawana Jain
Born in 1998 in Assam, India, Bhawana Jain's practice unfolds at the intersection of ecopoiesis, embodied memory, and cultural reclamation. Working across installation, drawing, printmaking, sound, film, and performance, she explores ecological, social, and spiritual thresholds. Her work draws on feminist phenomenology, decolonial thought, and cosmology to examine how bodies—both individual and collective—are shaped by, and in turn shape, the world.
Jain graduated with an MA in Fine Art with Distinction at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, where she was honoured with the 2025 Graduate Award. Alongside her studio practice, she has over four years of experience facilitating creative workshops and community-based art education across India and the UK.
Participating artist of the art guerrilla: Zones of Estrangement
Bunga Yuridespita
Born in 1989, Indonesia. Bunga Yuridespita works across sculpture, painting, and moving image to explore the shifting relationship between body, space and time. Her practice transforms abstract ideas into immersive environments that heighten sensory awareness and unsettle conventional perspectives. Her installations propose spaces of potential, where transformation, disorientation and discovery are always possible.
Participating artist of the art guerrilla: Zones of Estrangement
Po-Yun Kuo
Po-Yun Kuo is a Taiwanese interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker based in London. Working across sculpture, video installation, performance, and documentary, her practice explores the intersections of body, mobility, and politics, revealing how shifts in space reflect power and social class. Through found objects and improvised site-specific public performances, she uses humor and irony to disrupt existing spatial orders and blur the boundaries between art and everyday life.
Her films focus on socio-political issues in East Asia, particularly women’s narratives and diary films, and have been shown at festivals including FOTOGENIA (Mexico City), VASTLAB (Los Angeles), and the Oregon International Short Film Festival.
Participating artist of the art guerrilla: Zones of Estrangement
Siqing Zhan
Siqing Zhan is a community-focused artist and historical researcher with a strong background in interdisciplinary collaboration. She is dedicated to creating supportive and inclusive environments by integrating textile practices, community engagement, and archival research, with the aim of empowering marginalised groups to connect with art. Her work centres on themes of decolonisation, diaspora, and gender intersections, weaving together traditional techniques and contemporary discourse. Through workshops and participatory projects, Siqing roots her practice in local contexts, fostering dialogue and collective exploration.
Initiator of The Skin Project - Walking and Painting Workshop
Ruohan Yu
Ruohan Yu (b. 1998, China) is an artist and practice-based researcher currently living and working in the UK. She completed her MA at the University of the Arts London (2023) and is now pursuing a PhD at the University of Brighton (2024–). Her work spans painting, installation, photography, and moving image, with painting remaining at the heart of her practice. Ruohan’s recent work investigate into site-responsive painting practice. In her work, she sees painting as a ‘sensual object’ - an object that can be perceived and experienced- in the perception, transformation and reconstruction of everyday space. Her ongoing research extends from this practice, exploring how painting respond to her translocated geographical experience. For her, painting acts a form of resistance against the structural pressures, repetition and invisibility of daily life, as well as the uncertainties emerge through transnational movement and relocation.
Her works have been included in the John Moores Painting Prize (China) at TAG Art Museum, Qingdao and Bao Long Gallery, Shanghai (2022–2023); Spring, Sprang, Sprung at Hunsand Space, Beijing (2024), and Church/Factory at Southwark Park Galleries, London (2022), among others.
Visual Designer
Mono Monong Li
Mono is a design practitioner specialising in moving images, graphic systems, and experimental publishing across digital and print media. His work integrates dynamic visuals, posters, and editorial design, often driven by research. He regards design as a form of critical thinking that goes beyond surface aesthetics, aiming to investigate how visual languages and media shape, distort, and mediate narratives.
Visual Designer
Qianru Yang
Her practice spans digital and physical media, including moving image, publishing, photography, and writing. Her recent work focuses on the tension between image, body, and medium, examining the subtle ruptures and perceptual shifts that emerge in the digitisation of physical experience.
Film Critic, Curator
Qinghan Chen
Qinghan Chen is a graduate student in Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick. Co-founder of the Bun Bites Screening. She enjoys hiking, writing, and slow cinema.
Artist, activist who participated in the Political Dumplings
Aria Danaparamita (Mita)
Mita is a lens-based artist, writer, and community organiser whose work engages art as poetic resistance for collective liberation. Traversing words, photography, and moving image, their artistic and community-based practice explores diasporic decolonialities, often through the lens of land, place, and belonging. With research interests in colonial visual and material historiography, their curatorial and academic work interrogates the political intersections of archive, material culture, and colonial legacies.
Participated in the Political Dumplings
Dorothy Cheung
Dorothy Cheung is an artist from Hong Kong. She works with moving-image and poetry to examine identity and home from both personal and political angles, focusing on memory and forgetting. Her moving-image works have been screened at the Whitney Museum of American Art, EYE Filmmuseum, Objectifs, and M+, and internationally at festivals, including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival, the London Short Film Festival, the Taiwan International Documentary Festival, and Queer Lisboa.
Author, Film Worker. Participated in the Political Dumplings
Misha Zakharov
Misha Zakharov (he/they; @m_m_zakharov) is a Russian-born, queer-identifying person of Korean descent, as well as a pro-Ukrainian political refugee in the UK. He is a London-based author and film worker with a particular interest in queer and decolonial perspectives on Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. His work includes an autofictional novel on coming of age queer, Korean, and precarious in contemporary Russia, Doramaroman (No Kidding Press, 2022). Misha is currently completing a practice-based PhD in Film & TV Studies at the University of Warwick, Coventry. As part of this, he ran two editions (2023–24) of Screening Rights, a festival of socially engaged and formally innovative cinema from the Global South in the West Midlands. Its 2024 edition, Double Bill, explored notions of solidarity through cross-community events, including Palestinian-Ukrainian solidarity screenings and a focus on ESEA forced displacement in the USSR and the UK through an event on Koryo-Saram and Chinese Liverpudlians. As a guest curator, he has staged film events with festivals and institutions including London Short Film Festival, Queer East, London Migration Film Festival, MilkTea Films, Flatpack Festival, and Atlas Cinema. His academic and film-curatorial work investigates film events as sites of (un)learning, refugee world-making from below, and South-South solidarity.