Yuyan Wang (b. 1989 China) is an artist and filmmaker based between Paris and Corsica. Wang completed her studies at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2016 and later at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains in 2022. Her work has been included in major group exhibitions including Dream Time, UCCA Beijing (2024), the 15th Gwangju Biennale (2024) and the 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art: Still Present! (2022), alongside presentations at Tate Modern, Palais de Tokyo, UCCA Beijing, e-flux Film & Video, and in film festivals including the Berlinale International Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, MoMa Doc Fortnight, CPH:DOX, and the European Media Art Festival, receiving numerous awards.

Raphaël Hénard is a French composer. He graduated from the National School of Cinéma La Fémis, Paris (2012) and Fine Art School la Villa Arson, Nice, (2018), with research focused on rare mental pathologies that induce a reduction of musical experience (anterograde amnesia, alexithymia, melophobia, amusia). His work incorporates psycho-acoustic strategies, pure synthesis, film-derived mixing practice and the reduction of familiar songs to their fundamental core. His work has been performed at Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, Villette Sonique (Paris), Villa Arson (Nice), LieuUnique (Nantes), Kaaitheater (Bruxelles), Cell Project Space (London) and Super Deluxe (Tokyo).

Mohammed Sami was born in Baghdad in 1984, and lives and works in London. Having completed studies at the Institute of Fine Arts, Baghdad, he worked at the Ministry of Culture before emigrating to Sweden in 2007. Sami graduated from Belfast School of Art in 2015, and earned an MFA at Goldsmiths College, London, in 2018. Forthcoming and recent solo exhibitions include: KM21, The Hague (2025); Blenheim Palace, Woodstock; Fondazione Sandretto re Rebaudengo (both 2024), Camden Art Centre, London; De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea (both 2023); and Modern Art, London (2022). He has participated in group exhibitions at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2022); Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art (2022); the Whitechapel Gallery, London (2022); the Hayward Gallery, London (2021). His paintings are held by the Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo; Arts Council Collection, London; the Government Art Collection, London; SF MoMA, San Francisco; ICA Miami; MAMCO; Geneva; MoMA, New York; The Carnegie Institute of Art, Pittsburgh; the Imperial War Museum, London; LACMA, Los Angeles; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Tate, London; and York Art Gallery.

Bas Jan Ader (b. 1942 Winschoten, The Netherlands) received his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles (1965) and his Masters of Fine Arts at the Claremont Graduate School and University Center, Claremont CA (1967). The artist was lost at sea in 1975 during the middle part of what was to be his grand trilogy of works In search of the miraculous. A major retrospective of Ader’s work, titled I’m Searching… will open at Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany, in April 2025, to mark the 50^th Anniversary of his disappearance. Bas Jan Ader’s work has been exhibited widely in recent years including various exhibitions in the J. Paul Getty Trust’s Pacific Standard Time series of exhibitions in 2011 such as Under The Big Black Sun at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, retrospectives at the CGAC – Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago Compostela, Spain, 2010 and the Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna (MAMbo), Italy, 2013, as well as Universes in Universe at the 30th Sao Paolo Biennial 2012 and in museums such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Palais de Toyko, Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago and The Brooklyn Museum of Art.

Atsushi Kaga (born 1978) is a Japanese artist who lives and works between Ireland and Japan. Kaga studied Fine Art at the National College of Art & Design, Dublin, graduating in 2005, and made a critically acclaimed first solo museum exhibition at the Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, in 2008. Recent solo exhibitions include: The world will not end tomorrow, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco (2024); Ukiyo-e, Encounters, mother’s tankstation, Art Basel Hong Kong (2024); Things Will Carry Us Through, Tanya Leighton, Berlin (2023) and your memorabilia floats in the air, mother’s tankstation, London (2022), with other notable solo exhibitions at Maho Kubota Gallery, Tokyo, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, Galeria Leme, São Paolo, and Galerie Nicolas Krupp, Basel. He participated in the Location One International Residency Programme, New York (2012); the International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York (2011).

Stephen McKenna was born in London in 1939, and was living and working in County Carlow at the time of his death in 2017. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art. Moving between Belgium, Germany and Italy, over the course of his esteemed career, he ultimately settled in Ireland where he became an elected member of Aosdána and was the former President of the Royal Hibernian Academy. McKenna has had numerous solo exhibitions including two at The Douglas Hyde in 2012 and 2003; the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; Hans and Sophie Tauber Art Foundation, Bonn; Stadtishche Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf. The artist was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1986.

1. Image courtesy of Yuyan Wang.

2. Mohammed Sami, Royal Mail, 2024. Acrylic on linen, 55.5 x 65 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Modern Art London.