Sharjah Biennial 10: Plot for a Biennial

The collective excavates stories and legacies, which are at risk of being forgotten and trodden under the guise of progress-cum-westernisation.

Jorge uses an obsessive pictorial language, repeating the same gesture in the same space many times until the visual register is analogous to the trauma that prompted it.

David Thorne is an artist and a cook. He lives and works in Los Angeles.

Milica Tomić is one of the founding members of the Monument Group active since 2002.

Alexandar Ugay is a photographer and video artist.

Andrei Ujică is a screenwriter and director.

Apichatpong Weerasethakul's lyrical and mysterious non-linear works deal with memory and subtly address social issues.

Architect and Director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmith, University of London.

Thomas Werner is a filmmaker from Berlin.

English sisters Jane and Louise Wilson are best known for film and video installations where architectural settings are used to investigate issues of power, control and collective memory.

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

Akram Zaatari produces work on a range of interconnected themes, subjects and practices related to excavation, political resistance, and the production and circulation of images in times of war.

Ante Zaninović was a screenwriter and filmmaker, he is the author of numerous short animated films.

Painter and icon restorer, Elias Zayat's art is influenced by religious and popular iconography.

Želimir Žilnik is an award-winning filmmaker. His first feature film Early Works was awarded the Golden Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival (1969).