Sharjah Biennial 16

Haegue Yang employs ready-made objects such as fans, clothing racks and building materials, to create works that depict a unique play on human experience through temporality and spatialisation.

Jun Yang addresses the architectural, historical and political structures of public and private spaces through the personal narratives of people inhabiting these spaces.

Raed Yassin is a video, sound and visual artist and musician whose strongly conceptual work uses image, music and text to explore myriad themes.

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s oil paintings focus on fictional figures that exist outside of specific times and places.

Painting, drawing, engraving, graffiti, photography, video and installation intermesh to create a discourse which contains as much criticism and disruptive power as it does a sort of velvet violence or if you will, an aesthetic violence. Isabel Carlos

Tatsuya Yoshida began playing professionally in the early 1980s, and in 1985 he formed his hardcore punk/Zeuhl-influenced band, Ruins.

Yoshimi is an original member of the radical Japanese experimental music group Boredoms.

Bae Young-whan’s artistic practice includes sculpture, painting, drawing and photography, as well as public projects that extend beyond the boundaries of the art world.

The sculptures and installations of Mohamed Yousif are distillations of his engagement with and contemplation of the natural environment.

Bassem Yousri is a visual artist and independent filmmaker.

A self-taught artist, Hisham Youssef uses his experience in furniture making and building restoration to create mostly wooden sculptures, ranging in size from two inches to sixty feet.

Well known for his powerful tenor voice, singer and songwriter Youssou N’Dour has introduced audiences around the world to mbalax, a style of popular Senegalese music.

The four artists were drawn together by their common interests: a dedication to exploring space and place as well as their own roles and representations.