Projects

Yto Barrada’s work on her hometown, Tangier, explores the political imbalances, existential desires and peripheral stories that shape the everyday life of the inhabitants of Morocco’s northernmost city.

Walid Siti’s work explores one’s relationship to heritage, home, borders, mobility and migration, inscribing a rich terrain that today is further marked by militarised checkpoints, national borders and waves of migration.

Vikram Divecha’s work develops around ‘found processes’—those existing forces at work within state, social, economic and industrial spheres that go largely overlooked.

As an artist, writer and video essayist, Ursula Biemann’s research and work examine the interrelated ecologies of oil, forest, ice and water through the lens of climate change.

Known for his research-driven projects that combine video, photography, drawing and sound, Uriel Orlow’s practice examines the transgressions of knowledge systems and the new forms of knowing they produce.

Tonico Lemos Auad’s work demonstrates here his interest in medicinal plants and herbs, and reflects the inspiration he draws from the natural environment, his surroundings and delicate architectural structures.

Founded by Anjali Sagar and Kodwo Eshun, The Otolith Group creates films, installations, audioworks and performances informed by methods drawn from the cognitive estrangement generated by science fiction.

Tamara Al Samerraei’s paintings are based on photographs from both her personal archive and the public domain.

For SB13, Taloi Havini explores a form of shell-based currency known as beroana, which was used on Buka Island in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville.

Takashi Ishida is perhaps best known for his ‘drawing animation’, a technique in which he creates lines by hand and then shoots them one frame at a time.

Through economical gestures, Stéphanie Saadé examines magnitudes of force and measures of distance and time often unaccounted for by conventional standpoints.

The work of Shadi Habib Allah navigates across networks of people, technologies, objects, images and the economy.

Sarnath Banerjee is a storyteller who creates freehand sketches and drawings that incorporate text as well as film.

In 1990, Samir Khaddaje moved from Beirut to Paris, where he was given a studio and accommodation in the basement of the Cognac-Jay Hospital.

As a filmmaker and artist, Roy Samaha explores the non-linear relationships between images, memory and history through embodied experience.