Sharjah Biennial 16

Carolina Caycedo's multidisciplinary artistic practice draws from Indigenous epistemologies in her research examining the future of shared resources.

Mithu Sen unpacks and interrogates systems of social exchange, modes of self-representation and notions of the taboo through close readings and manipulations of language and the body.

Presenting history as a collection of overlapping fragments, Nusra Latif Qureshi constructs new narratives from complex stereotypes.

Marwah AlMugait uses visual, technological and performative elements to explore humanity’s connection to the natural world, issues of migration and displacement as well as the mechanics and ambiguities of
human interaction.

Sammy Baloji’s photographic and sculptural assemblages braid together the pre- and post-colonial histories of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by examining the industrial and cultural heritage of the Katanga region.

Roméo Mivekannin’s reinterpretations of classical European art challenge western canonical representations of Blackness. The artist presents a series of canvases bridging unusual painting techniques and archival photographic images.

Carrie Mae Weems’ approach to image-making ranges from staged and serialised narrative photography to the appropriation and adaptation of archival and ethnographic imagery.

At the intersection of textile design, crafts research and activism, Nelly Sethna (1932–1992) applied her skills as a weaver to create new visual languages, departing from the nationalist aesthetics expected of artists in post-independence India.