A space for making and thinking in Chiangmai
Ayza Akhtar is a South Asian diasporic artist, writer, and mixed reality practitioner whose work moves through the shifting terrain of identity as lived, negotiated, and continually re-authored. In May 2026, she joins Studio 88 Artist Residency’s Evolving Identities programme, investigating femininity as a sensorial, shifting experience and tracing the moment it becomes sovereign.
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Aurelie Rousseau is a French visual artist and writer exploring presence, memory, and emotional perception through watercolour, photography, video, and text. Her work evokes a longing for slowness, reverence, and embodied awareness. In May 2026, she joins Studio 88 Artist Residency’s Evolving Identities programme, and will develop an inquiry into femininity as a lived, embodied, and shifting experience.
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Mauricio Montiel Figueiras is a Mexico-based writer whose multifaceted literary practice moves fluidly across prose fiction, essays, poetry, translation, editing, and cultural criticism. The author of numerous acclaimed books across multiple genres, he is known for his formally inventive narratives and deep engagement with themes of solitude, memory, and displacement. He is Artist-in-Residence at Studio 88 in January-February 2026.
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Studio 88 Artist Residency 