Johannes Bosisio | Tiyana Mitchell
Andrei Pokrovskii | Anya Wang
 
Inspired by Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, Faded brings together four painters whose practices probe memory, mythology, transformation, and estrangement through contemporary lenses. Each artist draws upon personal, cultural, or historical source material — not to reconstruct the past, but to reprocess, refract, and at times, deliberately misplace it. What surfaces is a quiet, dissonant humour — one that resides not in punchlines, but in distortion, dissociation, and intentional opacity.
 
Together, these four artists trace out a collective tone of visual defamiliarisation — where humour surfaces as a residue of dislocation, friction, and reinterpretation. Faded asks what it means to inherit images, myths, and memories — and whether humour might offer a way to hold them differently.





Featuring Artists

Johannes Bosisio (b.1994, Italy) lives and works in London and Berlin. Spanning from painting to sculptural installation, Bosisio’s art revolves around themes of transformation, freedom, desire, and hybridization. His unique approach involves seamlessly integrating organic forms with technological elements, blurring the lines between the natural and the artificial. Bosisio’s artistry is characterized by his skillful manipulation of surfaces. He takes once-polished chrome and transforms it, leaving behind scratches and rough textures that tell a story of change and vitality. This deliberate alteration prompts viewers to contemplate new avenues for exploration, inviting us to rethink our identities in the face of technological advancement. He completed his MA at the Royal College of Art, London (2020–2022).
 
Tiyana Mitchell (b.2001, USA) is an American/ Jordanian artist. She is currently based in London where she is working towards her Masters in Painting at the Royal College of Art. Mitchell holds a dual degree from Parsons School of Design and Eugene Lang College, in Fine Arts and History, a combination of which provides the groundwork to her painting practice. She is interested in archival research and history, which is built upon in her painting which draws from her experience working with her family’s archive.  

Andrei Pokrovskii (b.1996, Russia) lives and works in London. He studied Graphic Arts at Moscow State University of Printing Arts (2016) and earned a BA in Illustration at British High School of Art and Design (2019). His practice explores the relationship between individuals and their surrounding environments—how space shapes and subdues characters, turning them into extensions of the landscape. Approaching painting as an object rather than a flat image, he emphasizes its volume, weight, and material presence. Each work becomes an artefact—an extension of the world it evokes, dissolving the boundary between the environment within the work and the viewer's realm.

Anya Wang (b. 1999, China) is a Chinese artist currently living and working in London and Hangzhou. Wang’s practice focuses on multifaceted perspectives of psychology and mythology, with influences from her identity of Asian women and religious family background. Her works derive as both a structural analysis and a critique of symbols that transcends cultures, digging into their psychological roots and effects. Wang is completing an MA course in Painting at the Royal College of Art, after graduating from London College of Fashion for BA Textiles.