Sharjah Biennial 16

In his photography and videos, Munem Wasif investigates conceptions of ‘documents’ and ‘archives’ and their corresponding influence on politically and geographically complex issues.

Apichatpong Weerasethakul's lyrical and mysterious non-linear works deal with memory and subtly address social issues.

Karine Wehbé's work constitutes intimate and public chronicles, drawing on childhood and adolescent experiences, cinematographic and musical influences, architecture and urbanism, various histories and the mechanisms of memory and nostalgia.

Liu Wei gives shape to the world around us, offering an acute visual commentary on underlying ideologies.

Weiner regularly participates in public and private projects and exhibitions in ‘both the new and old world’

Architect and Director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmith, University of London.

Thomas Werner is a filmmaker from Berlin.

What, How & for Whom (WHW) is a curatorial collective formed in Zagreb in 1999, and is currently based in Berlin, Vienna and Zagreb.

Writer, film critic and broadcaster, William Mullally is currently Digital Editor, Esquire Middle East (2021–present).

English sisters Jane and Louise Wilson are best known for film and video installations where architectural settings are used to investigate issues of power, control and collective memory.

Women's Action Forum (WAF), a leading women’s organisation, was set up in 1981 to challenge the rigid Islamisation project of General Zia ul-Haq of Pakistan and his military government.

Woven Memory / Memoria Entretejida is a series of site-specific installations built around large-scale woven copper-wire portraits by Chilean-Canadian artist Soledad Fátima Muñoz.

Wu Na began her training on the guqin, a traditional Chinese stringed instrument, at the age of nine, studying with guqin masters Zhao Jiazhen and Li Xiangting.