Sharjah Biennial 16

Pablo León de la Barra is an independent curator, exhibition maker, and art and architecture researcher.

Khavn De La Cruz is a multiawarded filmmaker, composer, and writer.

Architect and urbanist Manuel de Rivero is co-founder of 51-1 Arquitectos, an architecture studio based in Lima, Peru, and Supersudaca, an international collective for urban research.

At the intersection of art and activism, Deacon’s creative practice interrogates the chasm between the lived experience of Aboriginal communities and the representation of Aboriginality by white Australian society.

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.

Aisha Deemas is Director of Executive A airs at the Sharjah Museums Department (SMD) since June 2012.

Thomas Demand makes mural-scale photographs, but instead of finding his subject matter in real life, he uses paper and cardboard to reconstruct scenes from images reproduced in various media sources, and then photographs them.

Curator and writer Gökcan Demirkazık will soon be moving to a new position as Research/Editorial Assistant at SALT in order to work with curator Merve Elveren, who has worked extensively on the history of contemporary culture and arts in Turkey.

Simon Denny’s work explores the cultures and values behind contemporary technologies.

Talal Derki’s short films and feature-length documentaries have received several international awards.

Led by Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy. DESIGN EARTH is a design-research practice that examines the geographies of technological systems in connection with, for example, energy, trash, water and agriculture to open up aesthetic and political concerns for architecture and urbanism.

Rohini Devasher’s current body of work is a collection of ‘strange’ terrains, constructed by observing, recording, fictionalising and reimagining objects and spaces.

Hydar Dewachi is London-based artist, photographer and freelance IT engineer.

Omar Dewachi is Associate Professor of Medical Anthropology at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA. His work examines the social, medical and environmental impact of decades of war and violence in Iraq and the wider region.