The Radar: Annabelle Agbo Godeau, Salvatore Pione and Zhou Xinyu

Annabelle Agbo Godeau

Annabelle Agbo Godeau’s work is deeply influenced by cinema and art history. Her paintings integrate fragments of film and photography, exploring how different combinations can lead to potential narratives, but always leaving the interpretation to the viewer.

Age: 29

Location: Düsseldorf, Germany

Last dream you had: My dreams are either too intimate or boring to share

Favourite exhibition you’ve seen: Recently it was the Anna Oppermann retrospective at the Bonn Bundeskunsthalle

Favourite object you own: A bracelet in the shape of a spider

Favourite art-world Instagram account: @themanhattanartreview, even though I never get to see the shows he‘s reviewing

Favourite movie: Basic Instinct by Paul Verhoeven

Favourite artwork: Manet’s Olympia

Loves: Talking at the cinema

Hates: People who talk at the cinema

End-of-year goals: To be happy with what I‘ve already achieved this year

Salvatore Pione

Salvatore Pione creates multidisciplinary works exploring themes of grotesque theatricality, camp and memory. Deeply inspired by Sicilian customs and traditions, he draws from childhood experiences, incorporating colour, sound, dialect and mythology rooted in Sicilian heritage. These elements blend with a queer narrative, disrupting the hyper-masculine ideals of Catholic Italy by portraying homoerotic scenes with feminized features. This personal process weaves together the past and present, challenging traditional norms through a grotesque lens.

Age: 29

Location: London, UK

Last dream you had: I should keep it secret

Favourite exhibition you’ve seen: Roberto Cuoghi’s ‘Imitazione di Cristo’ at the 2017 Venice Biennale

Favourite object you own: My grandfather’s ring

Favourite art-world Instagram account: Not sure I have one

Favourite movie: It’s Only the End of the World by Xavier Dolan

Favourite artwork: Hard to choose just one, but probably Ken Burns (2020) by Ken Sortais

Loves: Pugs

Hates: Overthinking

End-of-year goals: I don’t set goals—I try to trust the process

Zhou Xinyu

Zhou Xinyu’s early work was centred around animation and digital painting but has recently developed into mixed media. Xinyu’s practice explores personal experiences and public events. She doesn’t translate these directly into images but rather creates from the emotions derived from them. Xinyu draws inspiration from distorted imagery and fragments of light and shadow.

Age: 27

Location: Hangzhou, China

Last dream you had: Honestly I rarely have dreams

Favourite exhibition you’ve seen: I can’t decide on a favourite, but Antony Gormley’s solo exhibition at the Long Museum in Shanghai in 2017 was the first contemporary art exhibition I ever saw, and I’m still extremely impressed

Favourite object you own: Wacom digital tablet – I’ve been using it for 14 years and it’s still perfect

Favourite art-world Instagram account: @whos___who

Favourite movie: The Pianist by Roman Polanski

Favourite artwork: The Sky Ladder by Cai Guo-Qiang

Loves: Everything about potatoes

Hates: Buzzing flies

End-of-year goals: To make meaningful work