Ethereal Maison
Ethereal Maison (London/ Venice)
Ethereal Maison is an interdisciplinary, intersectional curatorial platform and nomadic gallery founded in March 2024 by Yaiza Hernández Escobar, working through a queer and feminist lens to explore world-building, digital and third spaces in dialogue with historically and culturally charged sites.
Its process-led, artist-run, hospitality-based practice has included Ethereal Maison Gallery in Bethnal Green E2 0PG London (via Arebyte Guardianship, until October 2025), plus collaborations with the London Architecture Festival, Pushkin House, Benjamin Franklin House, 180 The Strand, Goldsmiths UOL, and a six-month, 20-plus-event residency at Cramer Street Gallery in Marylebone Square,
London. In Venice, it now partners with 10ZeroOne gallery at the Arsenale Biennale, and with CREA Venice and COLD magazine planning for a major exhibition in November 2026.
Proposal
Fluid and unbound, water seeps through cracks, crosses boundaries, and transforms whatever it touches, existing not as separate but as part of all living matter.
“Interstitial waters” brings together Spanish and British artists exploring inhabitation through permeability and connection rather than separation, using water as metaphor and material to dissolve divides between body/landscape, interior/exterior, memory/present.
Through installation, video, sculpture, performance, and participation, the works probe interstitial spaces where categories blur and new communities form. Sacralising space, through attention, slowness, and ritual rather than institutional spirituality, the project engages feminist and queer narratives, framing the exhibition as a temporary, shared practice of coexistence.
Paola Estrella is a multimedia artist from Mexico based in London.
Her work shifts across painting, video, installation and performance, with speculative fiction serving as a core element of her practice. Through this lens, she conveys themes of intimacy, desire, and becoming. Estrella delves into the impact of new
technologies on public and private spheres, examining how the imaginary shapes social conventions, identity and our notion of reality.
Her interest lies in the intricate tensions and complexities of belief systems and worldviews, as well as the intersection of imagination and perception in relation to transcendent experiences.
She has been an ICA resident artist for the year 2025-2026 with her collective Diasporas Now, she has performed at CCA Goldsmiths, South London Gallery and the V&A east Museum East, among others. She was commissioned by CW+ to exhibit in‘Journeys: Healing Arts’ at Saatchi Gallery. She was selected for New Contemporaries 2022. She won the Travers Smith CSR Programme 2021, was shortlisted for the LUMEN Art Prize and exhibited at the Museum of Mexico City in 2021. Her work was selected by White Cube Gallery for Tomorrow:London in 2020.
Estrella holds a master’s degree from the Royal College of Art in Contemporary Art and studied art direction and mixed media at Central Saint Martins and is co-founder of Diasporas Now.
Marisa Müsing is a transdisciplinary artist and cyber thinker exploring relationships between the body, digital identity and archaeological history, expressing ethereal feminist ideals through digital and sculptural media. Their PhD at the Royal College of Art reinvestigates Pompeiian frescoes through a queer cyberfeminist lens. They have exhibited work at the Royal Academy of Arts, the British Academy, Salone del Mobile, New York Design Week, SOFTER, Ethereal Maison, Restless Egg and Xpace Cultural Centre, and have been featured in Glitch Magazine, Digital Frontier, Hypebae, WGSN, Dezeen, Vogue and the New York Times. Marisa has lectured at institutions including the RCA Research Biennale Symposium, Parsons School of Design, Harvard GSD, Rhode Island School of Design and ELISAVA Barcelona School of Design and
Engineering.
Additionally, Marisa runs two collaborative studios. müsing-sellés, a globally-recognised design and teaching studio engaged in the transformation of object and spatial design through architecture; and mamumifi, a multidisciplinary collective that explores building stories around identity through objects from mixed-asian female perspectives.
Nina Gonzalez-Park (b. 1993, Tokyo) is a London-based multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, installation, textiles, and participatory practice. Raised between Japan, Mexico, and the United States, her work bridges art and science, drawing on a background in neuroscience to explore material transformation, embodiment, sensory experience, and human connection.
Through sculpture, food-based interactions, textile works, and collaborative projects, Gonzalez-Park investigates the relationships between instinct, culture, and systems of knowledge. Her interdisciplinary approach combines scientific inquiry with artistic experimentation, creating spaces for collective reflection and exchange.
Prior to her artistic practice, Gonzalez-Park worked in neuroscience and clinical research and later served as Creative Lead at the Big Data Institute, University of Oxford. She completed an MA in Art & Science at the University of the Arts London.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, Tokyo University of the Arts, Gasworks, V&A East, and as part of Vlatka Horvat: By The Means At Hand at the Croatian Pavilion of the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Gonzalez-Park has been recognised through a number of awards and residencies, including the Hestercombe Gardens Artist Residency, the Shared Summer Campus Residency in Tokyo, the Royal Society of Sculptors’ Interplay Kinetic Design Award, and finalist positions for both the Ingram Prize and NOW Introducing.
Laura Rikman (b. 1992, Madrid) is a Spanish artist and Artistic Engraver at the Real Casa de la Moneda (FNMT-RCM), specialising in postage stamps, miniatures, and small-format printmaking. She holds a BA in Fine Arts from Universidad Complutense Madrid, a BA in Painting from Camberwell College of Arts (UAL), and an MA in Printmaking and Currency Design from the Escuela de Grabado, FNMT-RCM. Her work is held in collections
internationally and has been exhibited across Europe and Japan, including FIDEM congresses in Tokyo and Florence.
Maria Stella Lydaki is a London-based multidisciplinary artist of Greek origin, born in 1996, who graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam with a BA in Jewellery Linking Bodies. She weaves stories into metal, thread, and performance, with her narrative jewellery drawing on ancient myth and the oracular tradition. She also practises analogue photography, creating dreamscape images entirely without filters. She has recently been awarded a fully funded Briths Council grant to support her work with glass making venetian techniques and material exploratiosn with water.
Georgia Somerville (b. 1993, New Zealand) is a London-based queer multidisciplinary artist working across painting, sculpture, and installation. Drawing on psychoanalysis,
trans-feminism, and queer theory, her maximalist practice explores technology, spirituality, identity, and activism through projection and 3D-printed forms, creating speculative spaces of resistance that challenge patriarchal structures. She has exhibited at Chambers Gallery (Christchurch), Suite Gallery (Wellington),
Deptford X, Proposition Studio Gallery, and Hoxton 253 (London). Somerville holds an MFA from Goldsmiths (2024) and a BFA from Ilam School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury.
Nem (Neomah) Stanford is a UK-based interdisciplinary fibre and installation artist whose practice explores vulnerability, domesticity, and softness as tools t…Nem (Neomah) Stanford is a UK-based interdisciplinary fibre and installation artist whose practice explores vulnerability, domesticity, and softness as tools to subvert patriarchal structures. Rooted in narrative and poetic inquiry, her large-scale hanging textile installations transform gallery spaces into intimate environments. She has exhibited at London’s Asylum Chapel and Bristol’s Centrespace, and leads community symbol-making workshops teaching participants to craft protective textile talismans. Stanford holds a degree in Creative Writing and English Literature from Plymouth Marjon University and is currently completing her Master’s degree.
Kayleigh Hatch is a recent joint honours graduate from Goldsmiths, University of London. Their multidisciplinary practice,
spanning drawing, painting, ritual, and pilgrimage, explores land, folklore, and esoteric healing. Previously involved with Spilt Milk London, T’Art Press, and Tush group exhibitions.
Bon Music Vision is a London-based avant- garde duo, composers and producers Yerosh Windrich (Swiss, Indonesian, Greek) and Elfed Alexander Morris (Welsh, Ghanaian, Native Canadian), whose immersive work spans spatial audio, visual futurism, and transmedia storytelling, exploring identity, memory, and belonging. Their multidisciplinary collaborations have been presented by the RSA, Arts Council England, Warp Records, Hyperdub, Netflix, and Alexander McQueen.
