Sharjah Biennial 10: Plot for a Biennial

Ann Sappenfield is a designer and illustrator based in New York City.

Hrair Sarkissian’s photographs reflect on personal memories, using subjectivity as a way to navigate stories that official histories are unable to tell. Using traditional documentary techniques in large-scale works, he engages the viewer in a profound consideration of what lies behind the surface of the images, thereby re-evaluating larger historical or social narratives.

Matt Saunders merges photography, painting and rotoscope animation to create uniquely processed and multilayered works that evoke cinematic iconography and celluloid history.

Master calligrapher, Samir Sayegh takes Arabic letters beyond the formal aesthetic of Arabic calligraphy.

The practice of writer and artistic researcher Ashkan Sepahvand traces associations from within the histories of the body and the sensory as well as imagination, celebration, transformation and futurity.

Musician and composer Sam Shalabi is a central node in Montreal’s free improvisation scene and is well-known as the founding member of the Shalabi Effect, Nutsak and Hawaga.

Kamran Shirdel is an influential figure of Iran’s new cinema and documentary school of filmmaking.

The collective excavates stories and legacies, which are at risk of being forgotten and trodden under the guise of progress-cum-westernisation.

Rania Stephan is an artist and filmmaker whose short films, videos and documentaries offer a personal perspective on political events.

Jorge uses an obsessive pictorial language, repeating the same gesture in the same space many times until the visual register is analogous to the trauma that prompted it.

David Thorne is an artist and a cook. He lives and works in Los Angeles.

Milica Tomić is one of the founding members of the Monument Group active since 2002.

Alexandar Ugay is a photographer and video artist.

Andrei Ujică is a screenwriter and director.

Apichatpong Weerasethakul's lyrical and mysterious non-linear works deal with memory and subtly address social issues.