The Radar: Amanda Moström, Henry Belden and Bo Sun

Amanda Moström

Swedish artist Amanda Moström currently lives and works in London. Moström straddles intersections of object making, photography and sites of interaction. Working with a range of materials that encourage playfulness, her practice often takes the form of installation and explores her desire to create spaces for exchange.

Age: 32

Location: At a farm in Ålbo, but most of the time in south London

Last dream you had: A few days ago I dreamt that me and my partner Lucas were having a fight, he was drunk and vile and I was really upset with him (he’s sober). I don’t know what the actual argument was about but it was fiery. I found him drunk in the bedroom in this real pompous old school American/Parisian flat (am watching Mad Men atm). We then got into a fight and were wrestling (I’m looking after my three year-old old nephews a lot atm so that’s a reference + kittens wrestling too). The wrestling fight ended and Lucas broke up with me and the last thing he said before I woke up was “I’m no longer with you and I’m now in an open relationship with Trudy”. End of dream

Favourite exhibition: Recent ones include Donna Dennis, ‘Houses and Hotels’ at O’Flagerty’s and Coumba Samba, ‘FIFA 2024’ at Cell Project Space

Favourite object you own: A painting by Koji Yamaguchi

Favourite art-world Instagram account: I don’t have one

Favourite movie: I watched Saw (2004) the other day and that is definitely not it, but I do love Tampopo (1985)

Favourite artwork: Hoochie Koochie by Trajal Harrell is forever printed in my head as a happy place, and right now I’m particularly in love with Ebun Sodipo’s Mylar Epoxy resin prints

Loves: Salt and butter

Hates: Equally scared/fascinated/devastated by fascism and how we can’t escape it!

End-of-year goals: Successful residency applications!! Please!

Henry Belden

Michigan-born, New York-based artist Henry Belden trained as a printmaker. His recursive, collagist approach to image construction borrows from the artistic traditions of modernity. Belden focuses on questions of surface, themes of desire and representation, and the internal form of an artwork. Compulsively produced, his work encourages a psychoanalytic reading.

Age: 31

Location: New York City

Last dream you had: I’d have to tell you in person

Favourite exhibition: Hardy Hill’s ‘Now it’s dark and there’s somebody in it’ at CASSIUS&Co.

Favourite object you own: My phone

Favourite art-world Instagram account: I don’t know…

Favourite movie: Recently it’s The Queen (1968), but my real answer is probably The Ring (2002)

Favourite artwork: Swamp, the 1971 film by Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson

Loves: Love, Miami

Hates: Hate

End-of-year goals: Finish writing my novella, get more flexible and out of debt

Bo Sun

London-based Chinese artist Bo Sun explores the fusion of anatomy and mechanics in the post-humanist age. Using materials like aluminium, perspex, and metal fixtures, he crafts biomorphic shapes that defy expectations. Bo’s work redefines the relationship between natural bone structures and manufactured objects, drawing inspiration from exoskeletons and industrial design patterns.

Age: 26

Location: London, UK

Last dream you had: I had a ‘Watermelon Meltdown’ flavoured vape (I don’t even vape)

Favourite exhibition: ‘My Head is a Haunted House’ curated by Charlie Fox at Sadie Coles

Favourite object you own: A knock-off version of Jeff Koons’ balloon dogs humping

Favourite art-world Instagram account: @artreviewpower100

Favourite movie: Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) directed by Jim Jarmusch

Favourite artwork: I think you’re wrong to want a heart, 2021 by Isaac Lythgoe

Loves: Unusual furniture, art memes, morning cigs, LEGO, cold air

Hates: Visa issues, unreasonably delayed responses, unpleasant smells, feeling unwell health-wise

End-of-year goals: To make bigger work