Biographies

Thelma Cappello

Xinyi Cheng (b. 1989, Wuhan, China) lives and works in Paris. She studied painting at Maryland Institute College of Art (USA) and attended Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (NL). Her solo exhibitions include: Harnessing the Power of Wind, Antenna Space, Shanghai, 2018; The hands of a barber, they give in, Galerie Balice Hertling, Paris, 2017, Swimming Hole, Practice, New York, 2015. Recent group exhibitions include: Noise! Frans Hals, Otherwise, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, 2018; Painting Now and Forever, Part III, Greene Naftali Gallery, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, 2018; Scraggly Beard Grandpa, Capsule, Shanghai, 2017.

Xinyi Cheng, Coiffeur, 2017, huile sur lin, 80 × 140 cm. Courtesy de l’artiste et galerie Balice-Hertling, Paris.

Nathanaëlle Herbelin (b. 1989, Israel) is a painter living and working in Paris. In her research, exclusively made of paintings of her environment, Herbelin builds bridges between the personal and the political. She holds a masters degree from the Paris School of Fine Arts (ENSBA, 2016) and was a guest artist student at Cooper Union (New York, USA, 2015). Her work has been shown at Bonnevalle (Noisy-le-Sec, France, solo exhibition, 2018), In Box (Brussels, Belgium, 2018), the Rennes Museum of Fine Arts(France, 2018), Collection Lambert (Avignon, France, 2017), and Fondation d’entreprise Ricard (Paris, France, 2017). She is currently represented by the Jousse Entreprise Gallery (Paris).

Nathanaëlle Herbelin, Arad, 2018, 130 x 143 cm, huile sur toile. Courtesy de l’artiste.

Liverpool Black Women Filmmakers are a collective of young filmmakers who came together to make films in October 2017. The collective is inspired by the work of anti-racist/womanist/feminist histories of Liverpool such as the Womens’ IndependenT Cinema House (Witch), Black Witch and Liverpool Black Media Group. They are currently working on the development of a second short film. Current members are Hannah, Muntaz and Yasmin.

Rehana Zaman is an artist based in London. She works predominantly with moving image and performance to examine how social dynamics are produced and performed. Her work speaks to the entanglement of personal experience and social life where intimacy is framed against the hostility of state legislation, surveillance and control. She was the recipient of a British Council research grant with Museo de Art Carrillo Gil, Mexico City (2015) and a Gasworks International Fellowship to Beirut (2013). Recent and upcoming solo exhibitions include Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2018, Kerala, India, Liverpool Biennial 2018, Liverpool, UK, Serpentine Projects, London, UK (2018); Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival (2018), CCA, Glasgow, UK (2018); and Material Art Fair IV, Mexico City, Mexico (2017). Her films and installations have been shown at Oberhausen Film Festival, Winterthur festival, Switzerland and ICA and Whitechapel, London. In 2017 Zaman was awarded the Paul Hamlyn Award for Artists.

Liverpool Black Women Filmmakers & Rehana Zaman, How Does an Invisible Boy Disappear?, 2018, vidéo. Courtesy de l’artiste.

Adrian Mabileau Ebrahimi Tajadod (b. 1991, France) lives and works in Paris. He is graduated from the Fine Arts School of Angers (ESBA) and then from the Paris-Cergy School of Fine Arts (ENSAPC, 2017). He spent a lonely childhood in the French county of Vendée, a time period during which that he surrounded himself with his dogs, daydreaming and surfing the Internet at a time it was nascent tool but not yet a massive consumer good.
On the basis of fun facts and items selected from his everyday life, Adrian Mabileau Ebrahimi Tajadod creates skits using domestic materials (painted cardboards, paper-mache, pottery) ; materials easy to use and transform but also having a symbolic importance. His installations aim to be fun and emotional things reflecting exaltations and desires’ artist. He refers to Italian Quattrocento, Ancient Greece, Persia as well as online games like Age of Empires and also clearly contemporary homosexual everyday life.

Adrian Mabileau Ebrahimi Tajadod, Strip-Tears, 2017, sculpture, colonne rotative, carton, papier blanc laminé, céramique, peinture, acrylique, résine, tissu Dior™, 157 x 112 cm.

Georgia Lucas-Going (b.1988 Luton) is currently Artist in residence at the Alexander McQueen studios in London and Wysing Arts centre, Cambridge with the collective ‘FORMERLY CALLED’. She has also been recently selected for Deptford X 2018 programme as well receiving the Berenice Goodwin prize for performance. She will be attending the Rijksakademie as of 2019 and has exhibited internationally as well as at the ICA and Tate Modern, London, UK.

Georgia Lucas-Going, DAD, 2017, performance durationelle, sa dernière chaise. Courtesy de l’artiste.

Dala Nasser (b.1990) is a Beirut based artist centering her practice around questions of material and process, producing works that respond to their physical, and contextual components, evolving autonomously over time. Having received her BFA in Fine Arts with focus in painting from UCL’s Slade School of Arts in London in 2016, she was awarded the Boise Travel Scholarship and the Sursock Museum in Beirut’s 32nd Salon d’Automne Emerging Artist Prize. Her work was featured in Sharjah Biennial 13 ACT II curated by Hicham Khalidi, and at Victoria Miro London’s cross-generational female abstract painters’ exhibition entitled Surface Work.

Dala Nasser, Sans titre (détail), 2018, sumac, menthe, charbon, latex liquide, habillage d’échafaudage, résine, 190 x 130 cm. Courtesy de l’artiste.

Kameelah Janan Rasheed (b. 1985, East Palo Alto, CA and based in Brooklyn, NY) is a learner seeking to make her thinking visible through an ecosystem of iterative projects such as “architecturally-scaled collages,” (Frieze, Winter 2018), poems/poetic gestures/words in the proximity of poems, long-form essays, publications, large-scale public works, digital archives, teaching, curriculum development, lecture performances, stand-up comedy, and other forms yet to be determined. Her past work has been presented at the 2017 Venice Biennale, Contemporary Art Gallery of Vancouver, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum, The Kitchen, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Institute of Contemporary Art - Philadelphia, Printed Matter, Jack Shainman Gallery, Studio Museum in Harlem, Brooklyn Museum, Bronx Museum, Queens Museum, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and elsewhere. Rasheed is on the faculty of the MFA Fine Arts program at the School of Visual Arts and also works full-time as a social studies curriculum developer for New York public schools. She holds a BA in Public Policy and Africana Studies from Pomona College (2006) and an M.A in Secondary Social Studies Education from Stanford University (2008).

Hamid Shams (1990, Tehran, Iran) lives and works in Paris. He is currently completing his degree at the National School for Decorative Arts (ENSAD, Paris, 2019). He holds a Bachelor in Visual Arts from the Paris 8 University in Saint-Denis (2017). Shams makes use of photographic techniques and sculptural installations to create environments where relationships of domination and submission unfold. In Iran, his practice focused on photography and the moving image, while he was studying engineering. Shams was part of Artagon 2018 (Pantin, France). His work has been shown at Cinema Galeries (Brussels, Belgium), Synesthésie (Saint-Denis, France), Médiathèque André Malraux (Strasbourg, France), Silk Road Gallery (Tehran, Iran) and LP Art Space (Chongqing, China).

Hamid Shams, Comfort Zone, 2018, cuir, fausse fourrure, chaine en métal, impression directe sur aluminium brossé, impression jet d’encre sur papier photographique, dimensions variables. Vue d’installation, Artagon (Pantin, France), 2018. Courtesy de l’artiste.

Patrick Staff is an artist based in London, UK and Los Angeles, USA. In film installations, performances, and new-media works, Staff cites the various ways in which the queer body is embodied, interpreted, and regulated. Staff received their BA in Fine Art and Contemporary Critical Studies from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2009. Their work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA (2017); New Museum, New York, USA (2017); Art Space, Sydney (2016); Spike Island, Bristol, UK (2016); and Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK (2015). They received the Paul Hamlyn Award for Visual Artists (2015).

Patrick Staff, extraits de depollute, 2018, vidéo, 16mm. Courtesy de l’artiste.