S/S 26: In conversation with contemporary artists
In anticipation of DAYJOB’s Spring/Summer 2026 collection, three international contemporary artists were invited to interpret the concept of the season through original visual teasers.
Discover their work below, where each image and video offers a glimpse into the creative narrative shaping what’s to come.
LOHANA SABY
French artist and model Lohana Saby, who dreams her pieces into reality, and builds them with strange little men, snakes and birds.
Lohana’s interpretation of “Working from home”, draws on her having to reconcile the different aspects of her personality and life when it comes to juggling various roles both as an artist and model.
The first unique ceramic plate Lohana has created for DAYJOB reflects the frustration in her mind when clay dries too fast, experiences cracking and the fragility of each artwork’s lifespan - Lohana then crafts a second plate which she deliberately shatters, as a way of showing that accepting the material with its vulnerabilities is part of the creation process, as a form of acceptance.
SHEENA LIAM
Contemporary artist and model Sheena Liam of Times New Romance. In her universe, she explores the symbolic power of hair within the complex nature of femininity.
In her universe, she explores the symbolic power of hair within the complex nature of femininity.
Sheena’s idea of “Working from home”, embraces her slow steady technique of embroidery, and layers of intricate emotions, each woven into melancholic poses within her subject. It is a manifesto of a quiet resistance.
In this three-part series, Sheena offers a rare glimpse into her work in progress. For her, body language is a drawing tool and sketching is not preparation but ritual. Each unfinished moment holds as much emotion as the completed piece; the process itself becomes the artwork.
CHONG YAN CHUAH
multidisciplinary artist Chong Yan Chuah, who works through CGI moving-image, game art, cartography, and installation, charting between virtual reality and simulated space.
Chong Yan’s elucidation of “Working from home”, is rendered into reality within this short film with DAYJOB as he presents it in an abstract telling of two bodies titled 'Semiotics of Broken Moons'.
In Semiotics of Broken Moons, two dreamers drift within a dreamscape, bodies lying still yet suspended between sleep and awakening. The scene unfolds as a tableaux vivants, a moment arrested, where time flows like liquid amber. Broken moons scatter across the horizon, fractured orbs glowing like cryptic symbols, remnants of lost cosmologies and half- remembered myths.
The figures undergo a ritualized metamorphosis: skin dissolves into light, surfaces ripple into code, limbs flow like liquid architecture. Presence here is malleable; the body is never fixed but endlessly re-formed, its essence circulating between matter and simulation. The work envisions the body as both vessel and passage, caught between silence and emergence, dream and waking, fracture and renewal.
