Sharjah Biennial 16

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

The artist believes that within the tension between traditional heritage and digital media, there is vast potential for the transmission of Indigenous voices and experiences.

Konrad Smoleński has worked as a visual artist, focusing on sound.

Time, the history of art, and human subjectivity in all of its forms are themes that Brazilian artist Valeska Soares explores in her work.

Praneet Soi investigates the social effects of media on various localities, such as Kumartuli in North Kolkata and Srinagar in Kashmir, through painting, writing, slideshows, drawings, video and experimental educational workshops

For the past ten years, David Spriggs has been creating artwork based on the concepts of power, immaterial form, perception and the relationships between the thresholds of space.

SPURSE is a creative design consultancy group that focuses on social, ecological and ethical transformation.

Ranging from painting to sculpture, Andrew Stahl’s work explores the symbolic, the formal and the expressive whilst engaging notions of the transcultural.

Sille Storihle’s practice is research-based and primarily takes form in publications, happenings and films.

Adeela Suleman is a visual artist, working primarily in sculpture.

SUPERFLEX works within and outside traditional art contexts, collaborating with architects, designers, engineers, businesses and marketers.

Obaid Suroor works in a range of mediums, including traditional Emirati fabrics and found objects, to create paintings in dialogue with the natural environment and the architecture of the Emirates.

Jenna Sutela works with words, sounds and living materials to create experimental installations and performances that bring together biology, technology and cosmology.