Kent Chan is an artist, curator and filmmaker based in the Netherlands and Singapore. His practice revolves around our encounters with art, fiction and cinema that form a triumvirate of practices porous in form, content and context. He holds particular interest in the tropical imaginary, the past and future relationships between heat and art, and contestations to the legacies of modernity as the epistemology par excellence. His works have taken the form of moving-image, text, performances, and exhibitions.

He is a former resident of Gasworks, Jan van Eyck Academie, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore and Medialab Matadero. He has held solo and two-person presentations at Gasworks, Kunstinstituut Melly, Bonnefanten Museum, National University Singapore Museum, and de Appel. His works and films have been exhibited in institutions and festivals including Tate Modern, Liverpool Biennial, Videobrasil, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Seoul Mediacity Biennale, Times Museum, EYE Film Museum, Onassis Stegi, and Bienalsur. He is the 2023 winner of the Paulo Cunha e Silva Award and Impart Art Prize, and 2021 winner of Foundwork Artist Prize.

Gisele Lima is a researcher and curator with a degree in Art Theory, Criticism, and History from the University of Brasília. Since 2015, she has been dedicated to researching creative processes, artistic work, cultural production, and curating. Throughout her career, Gisele has had the opportunity to collaborate on projects with companies such as Mira Produção e Arte and Tuîa Arte Produção, working at renowned spaces such as the Banco do Brasil Cultural Center, Caixa Cultural, Funarte, the Postal Museum, and the National Museum of the Republic.

As a curator, Gisele has had significant achievements, including co-curating the exhibition Triangular – Art of this Century (2019/2020) at Casa Niemeyer – UnB, which was voted the best institutional collective exhibition by Select magazine (2019). She was also a guest curator at the 14th International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Curitiba, presenting the exhibition Contraforte (2019), and won the first curatorship competition at Galeria OMA (2018). Gisele took on the role of director at Pilastra in 2019, where she has committed to promoting the artistic, professional, and engaged development of participants, aiming to contribute to the contemporary art scene and offer diverse artistic perspectives through a dissident lens.

Graduated from the Bachelor’s program in Visual Arts at ENPEG “La Esmeralda,” he was part of the Educational Program at SOMA in the 2022 cohort and was a recipient of the Young Creators scholarship from FONCA (2020-2021) in the photography category.

His practice investigates the cultural expressions developed by the communities he collaborates with, exploring the materials and knowledge they possess. He is interested in finding possibilities to expand the boundaries of social and cultural determinism, researching how documentary practices integrate and, above all, leverage contemporary art methodologies. He aims for his work to be a blend of documentation and its narrative qualities, with a subjective and personal reinterpretation of the materialities inherent to the contexts he investigates.

In 2019, he participated in the collaborative project “PARA K KIERES SABER ESO?” alongside his first solo exhibition titled “PICO DE GALLO” as part of the exhibition series at ENPEG “La Esmeralda.” In 2020, he contributed to the group exhibition “Growing pains,” curated by Juan Pablo Rosas at the “Mashimon” gallery, and the collective exhibition “Simular una ventana” at Balcón Espacio, within the framework of Fotoseptiembre 2022. He took part in the tenth edition of Salón ACME, receiving the “Salon Award.” In April 2023, he becomes part of “residencies in transit” at Hangar C.I.A, Lisbon.

The artistic practice of Soñ encompasses various modes of expression (music/sound – under the pseudonym SOÑXSEED), video, performance, installation, sculpture (ceramics), and collective practice, engaging with different past-present-future imaginaries (utopian, erotic, spiritual). It seeks freedom from social norms and harmony between humans and non-humans, the living and the non-living, the visible and the invisible, bridging two worlds. The artist composes with moving images, poetic writings, archival conversations, bodily gestures, fabrics, fruit and plant matter, herbs, as well as culinary moments.

In this perspective, the artist draws from their Cameroonian and Afro-diasporic cultural heritage, along with an Afrofeminist and queer intellectual environment, utilizing tools and materials to explore mechanisms of healing and survival, notions of intimacy, and joy from which they create immersive experiences.

Published in the anthology “Sex Ecologies” (2021, MIT Press) and Afrikadaa Magazine, Soñ continues their theoretical-poetic writing as part of their Ph.D. in Practice in Vienna.

They presented their solo exhibition “A Quiet Storm Blowin'” in Vienna in 2023 at Kunstraum Niederoesterreich. Soñ Gweha’s works, DJ sets, and performances have been featured at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (“The Taste of Water,” 2022-23), Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Galeria Municipais de Portugal (“Sarah Maldoror, Cinema Tricontinental,” 2021-22), Kunsthall Trondheim in Norway (“Sex Ecologies,” 2021), Mumok in Vienna (2022), Arsenic-Lausanne (2022), La Station Culturelle in Martinique (2022), Bétonsalon in Paris (2020), Mostra des Artes Cênicas Negras in Porto Alegre (2020), Musée des Civilisations Noires in Dakar (2018), TU-Théâtre de l’Usine in Geneva (2020), Kaiku Club in Helsinki (2019), Magasin des horizons – CNAC Grenoble (2019), Musée du Quai Branly in Paris (2019), and Centre Pompidou (2017).

Soñ Gweha also contributed to the Afrocyberféminismes series at Gaîté Lyrique in Paris in 2018, co-created by Oulimata Gueye. The artist has been collaborating with the Swiss collective KitchensProsper since 2021 and with the magazine Atayé since 2016.

María Carri is a political scientist, educator, and curator from Buenos Aires. Her interdisciplinary practice focuses on processes and explores new ways to promote critical thinking and collaborative work.

She holds an MA in Curatorial Studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York,
and a BA in Political Science from the University of Buenos Aires. She has also pursued postgraduate
studies in Argentine and Latin American art history from the Universidad de San Martín and social and
political anthropology from the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2018, she participated in the Artists and Curators Program at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella.

María has directed popular education schools inspired by the theory of Brazilian pedagogist Paulo Freire
and worked in the Education Department at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires. She has also
held positions at Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam (Curatorial Fellow) and Bard College Berlin (Guest
Curator). María has received grants from the National Ministry of Culture in Argentina and academic
scholarships both in the US and Argentina.

She co-curated Ñande Róga, an exhibition based on the research on the Feliciano Centurión archive at
the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) in New York City at the Hessel Museum of Art.
She recently curated Silät, which featured textiles produced by Thañí, an organization of Indigenous
women weavers of the Wichí people from the communities of Santa Victoria Este (Salta, Argentina).

Dariane Martiól is a visual artist, currently a doctoral candidate and holds a master’s degree in Visual Arts, with a bachelor’s degree in Painting and a teaching degree in Philosophy. In 2021, she was awarded at the 17th Contemporary Art Salon of Guarulhos. In 2022, she participated in the 32nd Exhibition Program at CCSP (Centro Cultural São Paulo), and in 2023, she was an artist-in-residence in the second edition of the Forum for Photo Performance.

Her research is driven by questioning social norms and engaging in aesthetic and technological experimentation. Adopting a transdisciplinary approach, she reflects on human nature and the complexities of desire. Investigating eroticism in its political dimension, she emphasizes the importance of decolonizing the unconscious and making life actively engaging in the world to enjoy a fulfilling existence.

She collaborates with her mother, Adair Martiól (1952), and their productions include photographs, crochets, poems, and paintings, exploring the concepts of family, motherhood, and aging.

Gabz 404 is a visual artist, self-taught photographer, researcher, activist, writer, and astrologer who investigates how gender dissidences challenge and destabilize the status quo.

His projects aim to reflect on corporealities and their relationship with contemporary society. Elements such as (dis)identity, memory, community as healing, ecology, climate emergency, new technologies, artificial intelligence, and the cosmos are present in his body of work. He is the creator of the “ser trans” project and co-director of the feature film “Intransitivo: a documentary about trans narratives.”

He has held exhibitions such as ‘ser trans: (dis)identities and impermanence’ at Espaço Força e Luz (Porto Alegre) and ‘Desmoronamento’ at Retrato Espaço Cultural (Rio de Janeiro). He has participated in group exhibitions, shows, festivals, and discussions in Brazil, Germany, Portugal, and the United States, including notable venues such as Museu Memorial do RS, Bochum Biennale, Casa de Cultura Mário Quintana, Cinema São Jorge Lisbon, Galeria Plexi, Festival Imaginária, SESC Quitandinha, and Instituto Goethe.

Gabz 404 has published three zines for the “ser trans” project (Austral Editions), nominated for the Açorianos Award for artist book publication, and self-published the zine “queda livre e um segredo” – all selected at the ZUM Festival.