Sharjah Biennial 16

Mustafa Said is a composer, musicologist and virtuoso oud player.

Kyohei Sakaguchi is an artist and architect, who works with used and discarded materials to create mobile structures.

Composer Ryuichi Sakamoto’s diverse résumé includes pioneering electronic works, as well as globally inspired rock and classical scores, including an opera.

Sakiya is a progressive academy, a field for experimental knowledge production and sharing in Ramallah, Palestine.

Shazia Salam is an interdisciplinary artist. Situated in environments of work and play, her practice borrows from their rituals to examine constructs of being within capitalist systems.

Known for her sociopolitical sculptural work, Doris Salcedo’s multidisciplinary practice centres around themes of memory, loss and violence as experienced by the exiled and traumatised. Often incorporating everyday items such as clothing and furniture, her works recreate the ineffable emptiness that a loved one’s disappearance creates.

Abdulraheem Salim's paintings and sculptures reflect a fascination with both figurative and abstract forms and depict his longstanding engagement with Emirati culture and the history of the Arabian Gulf.

Together with partner Irwan Ahmett, Tita Salina has created self-initiated art projects that focus on urban issues, especially those that concern public space.

Interested in how technology affects perception, filmmaker and artist Roy Samaha explores the non-linear relationships between images, memory and history.

In 1995, Sejima and Nishizawa founded SANAA an Architectural Practice.

Karin Sander’s practice draws attention to the complex relationships between artworks, institutions and audiences through the innovative use of installation, sculpture, photography, new technologies and other media.

Working mainly in film, Larissa Sansour also produces installations, photos and sculptures.

Mario Santanilla’s practice moves across mediums, rummaging through different layers of space while questioning the conventions of photography, video, sound and installation.

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