About
Initiated in 2024, In Between Zones is an art project and loose curatorial collective that explores embodied and heterogeneous lived experiences within shifting socio-political contexts. Drawing on a range of curatorial strategies—including situational interventions, critical archival practice, and participatory action research—the project engages with diaspora and sociopolitical realities to challenge (neo- / internal-)colonial epistemologies, facilitate transnational dialogue, and reconfigure existing power relations.
In Between Zones – A London Art Guerrilla Tour (夹缝地带—伦敦艺术游击巡礼), our 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 collective
Founder of In Between Zones
Nicole Zihua Zhang
She is an art writer, researcher, 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 the entanglement of embodied experience and contemporary art, engaging with archival critique, alternative historical narratives, and curatorial methods of social inquiry. 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” (2025) and the exhibition “In Between the Fields” (2023) at the ChunYangTai Arts and Cultural Centre in Guangzhou. Her past writings have been published in The Art Journal, Artforum, Gallery Magazine, and other publications.
Initiator of the Political Dumplings - Collective Cooking with Bordered Lives
Qianrui Hu
He is a PhD student at School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. His academic interests mainly include sociology of border, war, migration, ethnicity. Having started his PhD in 2021 before Russia’s full-scale invasion against Ukraine, he initially planned his fieldtrip 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 focuses on people’s reinterpretations of their war experience between 2014 and 2022 in Donbas in relation to the full-scale war. Besides his academic work, he has also volunteered for organisations aiming at refugee relief, such as KHARPP and Ukrainian House in Warsaw.
Visual Designer
Ning Jiang
He graduated with a Master of Arts from Sorbonne University and is currently working at MAY Revue at the Cité internationale des arts.
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).
Initiator of the art guerrilla: Zones of Estrangement
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.