Love Me If You Dare

At the London Design Festival 2025, SWANFALL GALLERY presents Love Me If You Dare, a cross-industry celebration that explores the intersections of fine art, design, and contemporary culture. The showcase brings together vanguard designers, contemporary artists, and emerging talents, highlighting how creativity today thrives through dialogue across disciplines rather than in isolation. The exhibition reflects the Festival’s spirit: design not as a fixed category, but as a practice that shapes how we experience the world - whether through objects, images, or spaces. Each work on view extends beyond its immediate form to become a gesture of relation: packaging that stages an encounter, painting that invites reflection, installation that reorganises perception. Together, they reveal how design and art alike can transform daily rituals into moments of imagination and discovery. The cross-industry showcase derives its strength from its breadth. Its significance emerges from the diversity of practices, bringing together vanguard designers, contemporary artists, and emerging talent. What defines its character is the interplay of perspectives: design in dialogue with art, established names alongside new voices, material innovation beside conceptual exploration. Within this range, the showcase finds its depth, offering audiences not a singular narrative but a chorus of approaches that reflect the complexity of creativity today. Love Me If You Dare does not propose resolution but relation. The title gestures to the risk inherent in all acts of creativity: to create is to expose oneself, to invite others into uncertainty and response. For the designers and artists here, that risk takes many forms - vulnerability through form, testing craft, questioning consumption, or imagining new social futures. For audiences, to accept is also to dare: to be unsettled, provoked, and transformed. In this spirit, the showcase affirms the London Design Festival as more than a display of objects; it is a site of encounter, where disciplines meet, perspectives shift, and new possibilities emerge. By bringing together award-winning design, contemporary art, and rising talent, SWANFALL’s Love Me If You Dare positions creativity as a daring act of relation - celebrating innovation while revealing the fragile, risky, and transformative nature of connection. Featured Artists: Irina Patrusheva, Li Shuangqiang, Luo Xiaohan, Tremoring Steel (Xinyue Gao), Wu Siqi and Zhou Haolai, Yang Yun, Wang Yuan, Jude Cui Curators: MIAO, Ye Mengqi