Sharjah Biennial 10: Plot for a Biennial

Guillaume Cassar creates a unique form of artist's book using small pieces of paper gathered from the street.

Marie-Hélène Cauvin’s innovative paintings and prints explore imaginative spaces, both real and symbolic, and her recent work explores themes such as violence and insecurity in contemporary societies.

Jem Cohen works in film, photography and installation. His 40 films include feature-length works such as Benjamin Smoke (2000), Chain (2004) and Empires Of Tin (2008).

Daouda Coulibaly's first short film, A History of Independence (2009) was inspired by an African folk tale.

Ziad Dalloul graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Damascus in 1977. He then studied at the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, where he has been living ever since.

Raffie Davtian studied Sculpture at the State Academy of Arts in Yerevan.

Jonathas de Andrade’s work often explores how collective codes of conduct and organisation impinge on and shape other modes of being.

Through their work as co-directors of DAAR, architects Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti combine conceptual speculations and architectural interventions to subvert, reuse, profane and recycle the existing infrastructure of colonial occupation.

Trisha Donnelly absorbs photography, drawing, audio, video, sculpture and performance into a practice that reflects on both the aesthetics of the act of creation and its results.

Barry Doupé is an artist and filmmaker living in Vancouver and holds a Bachelor of Media Arts.

Haytham el-Wardany's third collection of short stories is currently in print with Merit Publishing House, Cairo.

Başak Ertür has worked as a translator, editor and interpreter. With Müge Gürsoy Sökmen she co-edited the volume Waiting for the Barbarians: A Tribute to Edward Said (Verso, 2008), and her published translations in Turkish include Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble.

Theo Eshetu is a video artist who uses the manipulation of television language as a means for artistic expression.

Ali Essafi is one of Morocco’s most prolific and awarded documentary filmmakers.

Harun Farocki is known for his films and installations that analyse the power of the image.