Alex Baczynski-Jenkins. Artist and choreographer, Alex Baczynski-Jenkins engages with queer affect, embodiment and relationality. Through gesture, collectivity, touch and sensuality, his practice unfolds structures and politics of desire. His works trace the relations between sensation and sociality, embodied expression and alienation, textures of everyday experience, utopian and latent queer histories.
Baczynski-Jenkins is co-founder of Kem, a Warsaw based queer feminist collective focused on choreography, performance and sound at the interface with social practice. Courtesy of the artist. Kem collective neon sign, developed in dialogue with Joseph Funnell. Wendimagegn Belete. Wendimagegn Belete b. He works across a variety of media, including video, painting, archival photography, text and found materials. Wendimagegn works are focus on how history, memory and identity are formed and constituted, with specific infancies on his own background as an Ethiopian.
His approach is also concerned with appropriation and reinterpretation of historical archives. He's also fascinated by the idea of the epigenetic inheritance, this idea of a memory that transfers over generations. He has taken part in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Your Gaze Makes Me, Digital print, objects. Commissioned by PinchukArtCentre. Minia Biabiany. She uses the layering and the fragmentation of narrations, framed in the Caribbean context, to build ephemeral poetics of forms in installations, videos and drawings.
She observes the interrelation between colonialism, the action of weaving and the notion of territory in oral and written languages. She initiated the artistic and pedagogical collective project Semillero Caribe in and continues with the ongoing project Doukou, to explore pedagogical decolonial practices with the body and from concepts of Caribbean authors. The length of my gaze at night, Drawing in soil, sculptures in wood, structure in burnt wood, thread, video. Co-commissioned by PinchukArtCentre.
Aziz Hazara. Aziz Hazara b. He works across mediums including photography, video, sound, programming languages, text and multimedia installations, exploring questions of identity, memory, archive, conflict, surveillance and migration in the context of power relations, geopolitics and the panopticon.
