Sharjah Biennial 16

An Indigenous artist and member of the Lac Seul First Nation, Rebecca Belmore’s art focuses on land use, resource allocation, climate change and displacement.

Collecting and repurposing found objects, Nari Ward grapples with social and political issues surrounding race, poverty and consumer culture via metaphor and juxtaposition.

Kahurangiariki Smith’s art addresses the history of colonisation, the reclamation of Indigenous knowledge and the present-day, lived consequences of historical events in New Zealand.

Combining autoethnographic methodologies with archival portraits, Inuuteq Storch’s photographic practice bridges personal and universal visions of Greenland.

Pak Khawateen Painting Club is a collective whose provocateurs investigate colossal hydrological engineering structures on the Indus River with transnational implications, including Indigenous displacement, land salinisation and ecological decline.

Emphasising Arab heritage and identity, Abdulrahim Salem’s practice grapples with elements of magic, mysticism and folk traditions.

Known for her sociopolitical sculptural work, Doris Salcedo’s multidisciplinary practice centres around themes of memory, loss and violence as experienced by the exiled and traumatised.