Sharjah Biennial 16

Guy Mannes-Abbot is a writer, essayist and critic who lives and works in London.

Sliman Mansour is an artist and founding member of the League of Palestinian Artists (1973) and Al-Wasiti Art Center in Jerusalem, which was established in 1994 to archive and preserve art in Palestine.

Writer, director and producer Mujah Maraini-Melehi has cultivated her passion for the arts across Morocco, Italy and the United States.

Working with video, photography 
and installation, Cinthia Marcelle choreographs interventions that often transform mundane or redundant gestures into poetic displays of exchange.

Marcia Smith is a writer, filmmaker, and a non-profit executive invested in telling and producing nonfiction stories about racial injustices rooted in African American history and contemporary lived experience.

Artist Teresa Margolles examines the social causes and consequences of death.

Alexander Markov has earned degrees from St.Petersburg University of Culture and Arts and the Cinema History Department of the Russian Institute of Art History.

Renzo Martens is an artist and filmmaker who gained international recognition with the films Episode I (2003) and Episode III: Enjoy Poverty (2009), especially the latter which was televised in more than 23 countries.

Samar Martha is Co-founder and Director of ArtSchool Palestine and a freelance curator.

Carlos Martiel is a performance artist whose visceral political critiques address contemporary issues related to censorship, oppression and immigration.

Marwan Kassab Bachi, known as Marwan, was recognised for his post-surrealist paintings that were able to convey deep emotion, particularly through his depiction of the human face.

Masharawi describes his work as an attempt to create a ‘cinema’ out of the Palestinian situation.