Basma al-Sharif works between the Middle East, Europe and North America. After graduating with an MFA from the University of Illinois in 2007, Basma al-Sharif was a resident at the Fondazione Antonio Ratti (2009) and at the Pavillon Neuflize OBC at the Palais de Tokyo (2014-2015). She won the Jury Prize at the Sharjah Biennial in 2009 and has received several grants (including Fundación Botín in 2010, artistic research in Berlin for 2022-2023). In 2024, she was nominated for the AWARE Prize and presented her first solo exhibition, titled The Place Where I Was Condemned to Live, in the Netherlands at de Appel Amsterdam. Her major exhibitions include the 5th Kochi-Muziris Biennial, Capital Ruttenberg Contemporary Photography Series for the Art Institute of Chicago, “Modern Mondays” at MoMA, CCA Glasgow, the Whitney Biennial, Here and Elsewhere at the New Museum, the Berlin Documentary Forum, the Sharjah Biennial and Manifesta 8. Her films have been screened at international festivals including Locarno, Berlin, Mar del Plata, Milan, London, Toronto, New York, Montreal and Yamagata. Basma al-Sharif will premiere a new short film titled Morgenkreis/Morning Circle as part of the Hannah Ryggen Triennale and will launch her first monograph Semi-Nomadic Debt-Ridden Bedouins published by Lenz in May 2025 as part of a solo show opening at Imane Farès Galerie in Paris.

Françoise Vergès is a political theorist, curator and writer. She writes on the afterlife of slavery and colonization, decolonial feminism, the museum, and climate disaster and regularly works with artists. For the 2025 Bannister Fletcher Fellowship, she is organizing workshops on “Imagining the Post-Museum,” with in London, the Whitechapel Gallery, Mosaic Room and the Sarah Parker Remond Center for the Study of Racism and Racialization at UCL, and in Paris, Cité internationale des arts and ULIP. She is currently working on a film about struggles in Reunion Island and her parents’ personal archives. In 2024, she was, along with sociologist Fabien Truong, a curator and writer of the first edition of La Ville dansée in Paris.