aban raza

Aban Raza held her first solo exhibition, Luggage, People and a little space, at Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke in Bombay in 2020. In 2022, she had her second exhibition titled There is something tremendous about the blue sky, which attempted to raise fundamental questions about the life of ‘the large minorities’ and other ‘working majorities’ and the right to protest and exist. Her curatorial experience for SAHMAT includes: Celebrate. Illuminate. Rejuvenate. Defend the Constitution at 70 [2020], India is not lost [2021], Hum Sab Sahmat [2022] and Moments in Collapse [2024]. She was awarded the 2024 Asia Arts Future Award by Asia Society, India.

She lives and works in Delhi.

anshu singh

Anshu Singh is an artist based in Varanasi, India. She completed a bachelor's degree and her Masters in textile design. Based in Varanasi which is known for the weavers and textile industry, she is proficient in techniques of weaving, stitch, dyes. Her interest in textiles started early in childhood as her mother was running a boutique in Varanasi. Recently she has been experimenting in different reused clothes, wire, jute and other materials and creating works which are used in daily life, thus making the traditional practice in contemporary contexts. Her materials and techniques are themselves a strong political statement in the present socio-political-cultural atmosphere.

birender yadav

Birender Kumar Yadav (b. 1992) is a visual artist based in New Delhi, India. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from Banaras Hindu University and completed his Master’s in Fine Arts with a specialization in Painting from the College of Art, New Delhi, in 2015. Yadav’s practice critically engages with questions of labor, caste, material memory, and social invisibility, often working with found objects, industrial materials, and site-responsive installations. He has exhibited internationally, including at the Lahore Biennale 03, Curated by John Tain (2024) ,12th Berlin Biennale curated by Kader Attia (2022), the 13th Bamako Encounters – African Biennale of Photography, Bamako (2022),Curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikungand ,Ways of Unseeing at Lunds Konsthall, Sweden. He also participated in the Indian Ceramic Triennale (2024). Yadav has been awarded several residencies and fellowships, including the Pro Helvetia Studio Residency (Zurich, 2019), The Darling Foundry Residency (Montreal, 2019) in partnership with What About Art? and SAVAC, supported by the Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation and TATA Steel, and the Artreach Community Art Grant Fellowship (2018–19).

He currently lives and works in New Delhi.

colectivo los ingradivos

Colectivo Los Ingrávidos is a Mexican film collective founded in Tehuacán in 2012 with the aim of dismantling the commercial and corporate audiovisual grammar and its embedded ideology. The collective is inspired by the historical avant-gardes and their commitment to using both form and content against alienating realities. Their methods combine digital and analog mediums and interventions in archival materials, mythology, agitprop, social protests, and documentary poetry. Their radical experimentations with documentary and cinematographic devices produce images, both visual and auditory, that are political possibilities in their own right. Recent retrospectives include the Viennale International Film Festival, Vienna (2025); Seoul Mediacity Biennale (2025); Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2024); the Block Museum, Northwestern University, Chicago (2023); Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2023); the Museum of Modern Art, New York, as part of the Modern Mondays series (2023); the Museum of the Moving Image, New York (2023); Conversation at the Edge – Gene Siskel Film Center, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2023); Brakhage Center, University of Colorado, Boulder (2023); the Toronto International Film Festival (2023); Tate Modern Film Series, London (2022); International Film Festival Rotterdam (2012 / Retrospective 2024); ڨابس سينما فن Gabès Cinema Fen, Tunisia (2023); Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento, Buenos Aires (2020); and the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2019). In 2025, the collective published Colectivo Los Ingrávidos: An Anthology (2012–2024), edited by Steven Cairns, Guilherme Blanc, and Almudena Escobar López (London: Institute of Contemporary Arts; Porto: Batalha Centro de Cinema; Toronto: Toronto Metropolitan University, 2025).

doplegenger

doplgenger is an artist duo from Belgrade, comprising Isidora Ilić and Boško Prostran. The practice of doplgenger revolves around the relation between art and politics by exploring the regimes of moving images and the modes of their reception. They rely on the tradition of experimental and avant-garde film and through some of the actions of these traditions intervene on the existing media products or work in expanded cinema forms. Although their main media is moving images, their work is realised through the text, installations, performances, lectures and discussions. Works of doplgenger are in public collections in Serbia and have been shown internationally at biennials, art institutions and film festivals. doplgenger is the recipient of film awards, Politika Award „Vladislav Ribnikar”, international fellowships and artists residences. Ilić and Prostran are the founders of the Transimage platform for politics of moving images in Belgrade, where they have curated a series of screenings and events, realised workshops and cultural projects since 2013. www.doplgenger.org

tanny (or gurpreet) kaler

Tanny Kaler is a farmer and filmmaker from rural Punjab. He began filming during the Delhi farmers’ movement, out of a need to witness and preserve his community’s resilience. That work shaped his commitment to an “ethics of seeing”—attentive to the quiet dignity of labor and the land rather than extracting stories.

Now studying film in Auroville, he treats this phase as an experiment in learning to truly look. His work with Trolley Times and collaborations with Marg Magazine, Village Square, Ensaaf.org, and Sikhlens reflect long-term projects—20x20 and Land & Longing—exploring identity and memory. He strives to be a medium for the stories his people need to tell.

kush badhwar

Kush Badhwar works across filmmaking, artistic and urban research to explore the ecologies of sound and image amid rapid changes in water and land use.

mustafa bin büyükcoşkun

Mustafa Emin Büyükcoşkun is an artist and filmmaker, lives and works in Karlsruhe and Istanbul. His practice focuses on the agency and the potentiality of truth making of the medias, particularly of sound. Apart from his work in film, his current practice mediating still and moving images, deconstructing metanarratives and decolonizing canonical history writing practices. After studying history and sociology at Boğaziçi University, he graduated from Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in Media Arts, with a diploma about the soundscapes in Kurdish cinema. His debut film 'Athlete' with Semih Gülen premiered at Istanbul Film Festival. He is currently, looking for methodologies of how to open video archives from the 90s, asking the question repeatedly ‘How do moving images move us?’

diwas raja khatri, nepal picture company

Diwas Raja Khatri is currently the Head of Research & Archives at Nepal Picture Library where his work has focused on engendering a research-based approach to art, archival, and curatorial practice. His curatorial projects include Dalit: A Quest for Dignity, The Public Life of Women, and The Skin of Chitwan. He is also a documentary film editor and a guest professor at Kathmandu University School of Arts.

rajyashree goody

Rajyashri Goody was born in 1990 in Pune, India. She is currently based in Goa. Goody completed her BA in Sociology at Fergusson College in Pune in 2011, and an MA in Visual Anthropology at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester, UK in 2013. In 2023, she completed a two year residency at the Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam.

Her research interests include food and water politics, religion, literacy and literature, mobility and place-making in the context of caste-based violence and Dalit resistance in India. She works with found objects, paper pulp, clay, text, photographs, printmaking, and performance.

Goody’s work has been presented at the Bukhara Biennial (2025); Sao Paulo Bienal (2025); Sharjah Biennial (2025); Busan Biennale (2024); National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington DC (2024); Asia Now, Paris (2023); Jogja Fotografis Festival, Yogyakarta (2023); Recontres de Bamako (2023); Galleryske, New Delhi (2022); Breda Photo (2022); Savvy Contemporary, Berlin (2022); Goethe Institut, Pune and Mumbai (2025, 2021); and Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa (2025, 2019).