JUAN DUARTE

“I’m a Brazilian singer, stylist, and director whose work blurs queerness, rural memory, and pop excess, clashing performance, vulnerability, and cultural reinvention. I’ve always been drawn to the stage. I started out belting gospel in church as a kid, my first weekly spotlight. Later came a reggae band, some pop rock drama, electronic noise… I studied performing arts, and from there, music and live performance became inseparable in everything I did.

“This project wrestles with masculinity through the lens of where I come from. The Brazilian countryside can be a rough terrain for queer joy, so I wrote these songs like arrows, aimed at a fragile, luminous, and untouchable desire.

“We wanted a track for the dancefloor – fun, raw, a little sexy, and not too serious.  I wrote it with producer Viviane Mendes in 2023, then I showed it to director BoyPrincess, who immediately sparked with ideas. He started dreaming up a whole visual world with me. The video was shot entirely in my hometown, Catalão, where BoyPrincess and a beautiful crew came to meet my family, childhood friends, and local artists. That’s where we found Teresinha do Primavera — a 76-year-old former radio actress with the lifelong dream of stardom, both on and off camera. She became the heart of the film.

”My creative circle is made of my friends — artists I’ve been building with over the past five years. Together, we build bridges between different visions of Brazil and beyond. I just threw two release parties — one in São Paulo, one in Catalão — and now I’m flying to Europe for my first Eurotour, from June 13 to the end of July. Dates already confirmed in Paris and Berlin, and I’m ready to bring the heat to more places” – Juan Duarte

Máquina Latina by Juan Duarte
Directed by Boy Princess
Starring Teresinha do Primavera
Stage Direction by Martha Kiss Perrone
Cinematography by João Rubio
Music Production by Viviane Mendes

JORDAN AFI LAMBERT

“My name is Jordan Afi Lambert – an artist, photographer and producer from Manchester, based in London. My work explores my own identities and the communities I come from, often through themes like Black Britishness, queerness, and family. I’m drawn to softness, everyday rituals, and the emotional lives of people we think we know. I approach my practice like building an archive, collecting fragments, feelings and unfinished conversations. I’ve had the chance to work on Jenn Nkiru’s short film The Great North and photograph artists like Hew Locke, moments that continue to shape how I see and feel through images.

“My start with photography started through my mum’s photo albums. I was obsessed with them growing up. I’d study every image, every handwritten date, trying to understand the world before I entered it. Eventually, I started shooting on disposables on school trips, birthdays, just moments I didn’t want to lose. Photography became a way to hold onto people, to make memory feel tangible.

“Black Britishness is central in my work. Especially Black British northern people and communities. I’m drawn to family dynamics, emotional inheritance, grief, and softness. I often work with memory and archive, not just visually but as a way of thinking. I want to honour the people and places that shaped me.

“My book I am currently working on is a visual memoir dedicated to my mother, who passed in 2019. It weaves together photographs, diary entries and reflections. It’s been emotionally heavy but also healing. It’s taught me a lot about how personal work can hold space for others too.

“I’ve worked as a creative producer across photography and editorial, but I’m now leaning into writing and directing. I’m interested in making films and projects that sit between fiction and documentary, especially those that explore family, legacy, and silence. Everything I do starts with emotion, then I build form around it. My first book is coming out later this year – it will be incredibly personal but largely universal for anyone who has experienced grief, love and loss” – Jordan Afi Lambert

GIANNA ROSINA

“I am a Sicilian fashion designer whose work treats clothing as relic, ritual, and reverent fiction. Rooted in the visual and spiritual codes of Roman Catholicism, I am inspired by medieval and Renaissance iconography. 1970s glam rock, Fellini films, David Bowie, and Mina drew me to fashion design. And I often have religious elements in my work. Although I wouldn’t consider myself a very religious person now, I have always appreciated objects like statues of Mary with her wax tears and her gold-embroidered veil. 

“When I construct a garment, colour and fabrics come first, even before the sketch sometimes. The stiffness or the drape of a flowy fabric could inspire how I sketch it later and create the silhouette. I am also very specific in the colour palette – I often reference Caravaggio paintings for inspiration.

“I would say right now my scene is in Brooklyn and Ridgewood, Queens. There is a vibrancy in the people I meet and collaborate with in those places. I have my first New York showroom, La Sagrestia, happening in Brooklyn on 11-13 July, 2025 at Dialective Space. I hope to see some New York-based Dazed Clubbers and readers there!” – Gianna Rosina

IZZY MOLEÑO

“I’m an artist concerned with proportional harmonies that exist in architecture and the natural world. My concept sketchbook follows the golden ratio: it’s where I like to document the landscape of my life in a visual language. This is an elusive process, but the thing that moves me most is music. 

“The issue with a concept sketchbook is that after reaching a certain number of pages, so much low-hanging fruit gets picked – you just begin repeating ideas. But I’ve learned to be okay with letting the motifs form. As the months go by, I find myself using a pen finer than the one used prior: what I value in black ink is the sense of control and its subtle potency.

“Some of the sketches are dedicated to people (exes, people you see on trains, artists). But I tend to avoid literal portraits and focus more on a synaesthetic representation of that person.

“I found my scene a few years ago in Stroud, where I got to know many beautiful people and great musicians. My art can be seen on my website, but I’m also gigging here and there in the Southwest” – Izzy Moleño