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General Curator: Ananda Zhao
General Consultant: Zongde Deng
Curator: Livin Liu
Judging Panel
Lily Baylon Escritora(Spain), Lidia Chiarelli(Italy), Lucilla Trapazzo(Italy/Switzerland), Maki Starfield (Japan), Pозалия Александрова( Bulgaria), Rika Inami (Japan), Sabrina De Canio(Italy), Tobias Burghardt(Germany), Fahredin Shehu(Kosovo), Xiao Suhong( China)
Sponsor
International Arts Education & Therapy Development Academic Association(IAETDAA)
When the midsummer sun pours down its radiance, all things are inevitably confronted with a life ritual of "exposure" and "photosynthesis." Beneath the blazing sun, plants and trees receive the light's heat with openness, transforming scorching rays into energy for growth, coaxing new green life from the parched earth. This is the metaphor of "photosynthesis"—not an escape from the sun's intensity, but an inner transformation achieved through vulnerability, awakening resilience and abundance in the depths of light.
This Exposure • Photosynthesis Global Healing Art Competition & Exhibition is honored to bring together 30 artistic voices from 17 countries. Through diverse media—painting, music, video, installation—they collectively respond to this summer theme. In the artists' brushstrokes and melodies, we witness those moments of exposure: inner anguish, fragility, and struggle—yet at the edge of light, we also see sprouting seeds, unfolding leaves, and the courage to grow anew.
This is an artistic dialogue about honesty and transformation. Every participant has chosen, under the summer sun, not to turn away or conceal, but to embrace the light with authentic expression—and through it, to find their own path toward healing. We believe that the essence of art is a form of photosynthesis: transforming life's pain into nourishment for the soul, transcribing silent cries into melodies of light.
We extend our deepest gratitude to all participating artists. Your sincerity and creativity have endowed this summer with an extraordinary warmth and depth. As the exhibition is about to go online, we hope that everyone who enters this virtual space will, in the radiance of art, complete their own journey of growth and transformation.


Within this wordless resonance, “photosynthesis” quietly takes place: hidden experiences become visible, and what has been witnessed is transformed. Through a profound connection beyond language, each living individual moves toward self-healing and a symbiotic relationship with others.
“Journey to Peace” is a gentle and reflective guitar piece created to support emotional grounding and inner calm. The inspiration behind the track is the quiet process of moving from stress or uncertainty toward a more peaceful state of being. Through warm tones and spacious phrasing, the music invites the listener to slow down, breathe, and reconnect with a sense of steadiness.
“Holding This Moment” was inspired by the healing power of presence. In a world that often pulls our attention into the past or future, this piece offers a quiet invitation to rest in the present moment. Its simple, spacious guitar lines create a feeling of stillness, allowing the listener to pause, soften, and simply be.
“The Touch of Compassion” is a tender composition centered on kindness, emotional healing, and the quiet strength of compassion. The piece was created to evoke the feeling of being gently supported, whether by another person, by nature, or by one’s own inner tenderness. Its warm and heartfelt tone reflects the idea that compassion can be a powerful source of comfort and restoration.
Footprints, an installation artwork, integrates personal life trajectories, emotional experiences and self-awakening into its creation. By confronting hardships encountered in growth, it facilitates internal emotional reconciliation and spiritual illumination.
Treating art as a vessel for healing, the creation embraces the torment of scorching exposure, transmuting external harshness into the driving force of inner growth. It anchors the original heart within dynamic balance, fulfilling a spiritual metamorphosis from passively enduring burning torment to actively healing through inner spiritual photosynthesis.
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General Curator: Ananda Zhao
General Consultant: Zongde Deng
Curator:Livin Liu
Judging Panel
An Jiquan ( China), Chen Xiao ( China), Fan Yurui(China), Lily Baylon Escritora(Spain), Lidia Chiarelli(Italy), Liu Yiteng( China), Lucilla Trapazzo(Italy/Switzerland), Maki Starfield (Japan), Pозалия Александрова( Bulgaria), Rika Inami (Japan), Sabrina De Canio(Italy), Tobias Burghardt(Germany), Fahredin Shehu(Kosovo), Xiao Suhong( China), Xu Na (China)
Sponsor
International Arts Education & Therapy Development Academic Association(IAETDAA)
When the faint sound of cracking emerges beneath the last layer of ice—that is the oldest secret of spring, and also the truest gesture of art: to knock where barriers stand, to sprout where silence reigns.
Breaking Barriers • Tender Shoots is not a gentle ode to spring. It is an active, even slightly painful, excavation inward. We invited artists to confront the invisible walls that lie within and around us: the inescapable loneliness of the digital age, the silenced individual voices amidst relentless acceleration, and the increasingly blurred boundaries between humanity and nature, between self and other, between who we are and who we long to become.
Remarkably, 38 artistic voices from 20 countries have responded—through paintbrushes, lenses, bodies, and sounds—with answers that differ yet resonate deeply. Their works do not avoid fractures or disguise vulnerability. On the contrary, they choose to pause and gaze at the broken places, and ultimately, to let a sliver of light enter through the cracks.
This is the true meaning of tender shoots: not a false prosperity that denies winter, but the conviction that beneath the frozen soil, roots are still gathering strength in the dark, and new buds are still pushing through the weight of the earth.
This exhibition is an invitation. We invite every viewer to step into this barrier-breaking ground cultivated by creators from around the world. Here, you may encounter a wall being knocked upon, or glimpse an unfamiliar sprout. May you see, reflected within, the boundary within yourself that is beginning to loosen—and hear, in this spring, the first clear echo of its opening.
Encapsulating Sensations explores the liminal space of existence before emergence, where life unfolds within protective enclosures that both shield and separate. Within these capsules, sensations are not diminished but intensified—light diffuses into soft gradients, sound reverberates as internal rhythm, and movement becomes a fluid dialogue between containment and becoming. This work invites viewers to inhabit a state of heightened perception, echoing the earliest conditions of life where connection is felt before it is understood.
Except for the long, omnipresent wind, everything else is dust. In the vast ocean of time, you and I are but tiny, ordinary specks of dust—rising and falling with the wind, yet never sinking. Even as dust, we each have our own trajectory, harboring the strength to break through the earth and grow. When we yearn to rise, we need not be trapped by our smallness nor discouraged by our ordinariness. We can dance in the wind and bloom amid the dust. Every spin and every stretch is a passionate response to life—to strive before the dust settles, to dance fully before life ends. This is the original intention behind "Even dust dances, breaking through barriers to live."
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· Course Title: Artdonnance® Level 1 - Foundation Pratitioner
· Format: Live + Recorded (Online & Hybrid)
· Total Hours: 120 hours
· Teaching Format: 60% supervised practice + 40% theory and case studies
· Lead Facilitator: Dr. Nesrine Helali Asses
· Accrediting: Institution International Art Education and Therapy Development Academic Association (IAETDAA)
· Language : English / French (with Chinese subtitles)
· Accrediting: Class Size Limited to 30 participants (first come, first served)