Sharjah Biennial 16

Ziad Dalloul graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Damascus in 1977. He then studied at the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, where he has been living ever since.

Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir for Art and Research is a multifaceted project devoted to educational, cultural and agricultural exchanges and production in Bethlehem and beyond.

Raffie Davtian studied Sculpture at the State Academy of Arts in Yerevan.

Often collaborating with others across borders and communities, Shezad Dawood employs film, painting, neon, sculpture and virtual reality to deconstruct systems of image, language, site and narrative.

Ayman Yossri Daydban’s painting, photography and printmaking explore issues of identity and alienation, often through combinations of cinematic images and text.

Jonathas de Andrade’s work often explores how collective codes of conduct and organisation impinge on and shape other modes of being.

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.

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.

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

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

A feminist art collective of Somali women established in Bristol in 2019, dhaqan collective centres the voices of women and elders in the Somali community, privileging co-creation and collaboration

Since 1983 all of Eugenio Dittborn’s work has been meticulously folded and packed into cardboard airmail envelopes and sent by post to exhibitions around the world.

Vikram Divecha’s work addresses labour, time and value in projects that manifest as public art, sculptural installation, video and drawing.

Barış Doğrusöz is an artist and filmmaker whose projects have taken the form of audiovisual installations, sculpture, graphic works, photography and drawings.