Sharjah Biennial 16

Farid Rakun currently serves as a researcher and education coordinator for the artists’ initiative ruangrupa.

Ayman Ramadan’s practice emerges from and responds to street culture and the practices of everyday life in the small village of Sharqiya where he grew up, and the chaotic megalopolis of Cairo where he moved to as a teenager.

Enrique Ramírez's work reflects his appreciation of stories within stories, fictions straddling countries and epochs as well as the mirages between dream and reality.

Sara Ramo appropriates everyday elements and scenes, displacing them from their original context and rearranging them in videos, photographs, collages, sculptures and installations.

Filipa Ramos is a writer, editor and curator whose research focuses on the relations between film and visual art.

A modernist who apprenticed with Moustafa Farroukh and Omar Onsi, studied with Fernand Léger, copiously analysed Le Corbusier’s ‘Cité radieuse’ and worked at l’atelier d’art abstrait in the 1940s, Saloua Raouda Choucair developed a unique abstract practice that included sculpture, painting, industrial design and public art.

Formed in 1992 by Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Raqs Media Collective practises across installation, sculpture, video, performance, text, lexica and curation.

May Rashed creates works using painting, photography, performance, video and podcasts.

RAW Material Company is a center for art, knowledge and society.

Saiful Razman’s works are experiential attempts to explore impermanence by transforming disposable objects and materialising their simplicity.

Created from industrial materials such as concrete, metal, rubber, tar, textile, and glass, Marwan Rechmaoui’s work reflects his methodical study of cartography, demographics and urbanisation.

NAWA Recordings is an independent record label that focuses on releasing new, alternative and experimental music from the Arab world.

Mahmoud Refat is a sound artist and musician who began his career playing in local funk, acid jazz and post rock bands at different venues in Cairo.