Sharjah Biennial 16

Lagash seeks to add a new dimension to Oriental music, fascinating audiences with complex and seductive melodies, melancholy harmonies, surprising rhythms and great precision.

Nikolaj Larsen uses a variety of materials and media to create work with a deeply humanistic engagement at its core.

As an instrumentalist with his own ensemble, Yusef Lateef has performed extensively in concert halls and at colleges and music festivals throughout the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Russia, Japan and Africa, often conducting master classes and symposia in conjunction with his performances.

Standish Lawder is internationally recognized for his work in avant-garde filmmaking.

Le Trio Joubran was formed by three brothers from Palestine who are descended from four generations of oud makers and players.

Often working with open-ended scenarios of everyday interactions, Lee Mingwei creates participatory installations where strangers can explore issues of trust, intimacy and self-awareness.

From her earliest works, Jac Leirner has worked with found objects, ready-mades and everyday detritus.

Since 2002, Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens have developed a research-based practice that includes the production of art works, contributions to publications and lectures as well as frameworks for exhibitions.

Tonico Lemos Auad uses a wide range of materials to depict the transience of life through works that are often site-specific and impermanent in nature.

The interplay between perception and imagination, belief and desire is the driving force behind Gabriel Lester’s practice.

Isabel Lewis works on the aesthetics of the experiential, creating spaces of sociable encounter between human and nonhuman agents in the format she has named the ‘hosted occasion’.

Artist and curator Peter Lewis focuses on researching the work of non-Western artists and leads interdisciplinary courses in art, design, architecture and moving image.

Ranging from the thoroughly composed to the freely improvised, the music of Lukas Ligeti draws upon downtown New York experimentalism, contemporary classical music, jazz, electronica and traditional world music.

Lim was the recipient of the 1st Media Art Korea Award (2010) and the Hermés Korea Foundation Art Prize (2007).