People

Raeda Sa’adeh’s work is mainly rooted in photography, performance and video, and the artist uses her own body as the core subject of most of her work.

Sabsabi specialises in multimedia and site-specific installations, often involving people on the margins of society.

The early work of artist and writer Walid Sadek investigated the violent legacies of the Lebanese civil war (1975-1990) as partially and inadequately seen and experienced by a young Christian-born Lebanese.

Reem Saeed is a UAE national with a passion for photography.

Multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker Mahmoud Safadi examines notions of urbanism and its intersection with the natural world.

Exploring formalism, gender identity through the autobiographical, Prem Sahib's abstract sculptures, installations and paintings are minimalist, with an affinity for simple geometry.

Mustafa Said is a composer, musicologist and virtuoso oud player.

Kyohei Sakaguchi is an artist and architect, who works with used and discarded materials to create mobile structures.

Composer Ryuichi Sakamoto’s diverse résumé includes pioneering electronic works, as well as globally inspired rock and classical scores, including an opera.

Sakiya is a progressive academy, a field for experimental knowledge production and sharing in Ramallah, Palestine.

Shazia Salam is an interdisciplinary artist. Situated in environments of work and play, her practice borrows from their rituals to examine constructs of being within capitalist systems.

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. Often incorporating everyday items such as clothing and furniture, her works recreate the ineffable emptiness that a loved one’s disappearance creates.

Abdulraheem Salim's paintings and sculptures reflect a fascination with both figurative and abstract forms and depict his longstanding engagement with Emirati culture and the history of the Arabian Gulf.

Together with partner Irwan Ahmett, Tita Salina has created self-initiated art projects that focus on urban issues, especially those that concern public space.

Interested in how technology affects perception, filmmaker and artist Roy Samaha explores the non-linear relationships between images, memory and history.