Sharjah Biennial 16

Ruth Maclennan examines changing relationships between places and their inhabitants in the context of geopolitical and climate upheaval.

Antonio Vega Macotela works in a multidisciplinary, site-specific and research-based art practice.

Robert MacPherson used the rich and colourful culture of his rural childhood to address the environmental, colloquial and distinctive aspects of Australian landscape and language.

Through painting and animation, Tala Madani’s work raises pertinent questions and offers a critique of gender and politics that reflects on who and what is represented in art.

MADEYOULOOK is a Johannesburg-based interdisciplinary artist collaborative established by Molemo Moiloa and Nare Mokgotho.

Lani Maestro has used a range of media including installation, sound, video, books and text to create work that explores the often complex dualities of human experience and the physical power of the natural world.

Basim Magdy’s practice began with painting and has gradually evolved through experimentation with various mediums.

Teboho Mahlatsi has written, produced and directed many projects, including the documentary Ghetto Diaries for the South African educational channel SABC Education TV.

Encompassing video, film and photography, visual artist Basir Mahmood's practice contemplates embedded social and historical terrains of the ordinary alongside his personal milieu.

The work of Firoz Mahmud is an investigation into social, political and belief systems and their interaction with human reality, both historically and in the present.

Working primarily with video but also with installation, photography and performance, Taus Makhacheva questions the unstable boundary between similarity and difference, acceptance and rejection, and draws attention to efforts to merge, mimic, assimilate or leak into what is other.

Waheeda Malullah is a multidisciplinary artist whose two-decade practice examines the socialised norms of Bahrani society and wider Arabian Gulf context through a playful, performative lens.

Sliman Mansour is an artist and founding member of the League of Palestinian Artists (1973) and Al-Wasiti Art Center in Jerusalem, which was established in 1994 to archive and preserve art in Palestine.

Working with video, photography 
and installation, Cinthia Marcelle choreographs interventions that often transform mundane or redundant gestures into poetic displays of exchange.