Isadora Neves Marques
Isadora Neves Marques (Lisbon, Portugal) is a film director, visual artist, and writer working across poetry and nonfiction. Intimacy is a defining element of her films and artworks, where speculative fiction and biography are often combined to disturb expectations on technology, ecology, gender, and sexuality, as well as imagine other possible futures. She was the Portuguese Official Representation – Portugal Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia in 2022, and was awarded a Pinchuk Future Generation Art Special Prize in 2022 and the Present Future Art Prize in 2018. Her work has been exhibited and screened in art institutions such as High Line, e-flux, Renaissance Society and Pérez Art Museum of Miami (USA), Castello di Rivoli and MADRE (Italy), CA2M, Museum Reina Sofia, Botín Foundation and CaixaForum (Spain), Tate Modern, Serpentine Galleries, Gasworks and HOME Manchester (UK), Palais de Tokyo and Frac île-de-France (Paris), Guangdong Times Museum and Inside Out Art Museum (China), Kyoto City University of Arts Gallery (Japan), and Berardo Museum Collection and Lisbon Municipal Galleries (Portugal), as well as in biennials such as Liverpool Biennial, Gwangju Biennial, and Guangzhou Image Triennial, among many others. Her artworks are included in collections such as Wellcome Collection (London), Kadist Foundation (Paris), Castello di Rivoli – Museo de D’Arte Contemporanea (Italy), and the Portuguese State Art Collection (Portugal), among others. Her films premiered at La Semaine de la Critique – Cannes Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam and the Toronto International Film Festival and have been awarded numerous prizes, including the Ammodo Tiger Short Award at IFFR in 2022. Her writings on art and cinema are published regularly in e-flux journal and other publications, and she is the editor of several anthologies on these topics. She is the author of the poetry collections Biography of a Fiction (After8 Books, 2025), A Campa de Marx (Não Edições, 2025) and Sex as Care and Other Viral Poems (Pântano Books, 2020). She is cofounder of the film producer Foi Bonita a Festa and of the poetry press Pântano Books.
Riar Rizaldi
Riar Rizaldi works as an artist and filmmaker. His practice explores the relationships between science, technology, labour and nature, alongside competing worldviews, genre cinema, and the possibilities of theoretical fiction. His works have been shown at various international film festivals (including Berlinale, Locarno, IFFR, FID Marseille, Viennale, BFI London, Cinema du Reel, Vancouver, etc.) as well as Museum of Modern Art (2024), Whitney Biennial (2024), Taipei Biennial (2023), Istanbul Biennial (2022 & 2025), Venice Architecture Biennale (2021), Biennale Jogja (2021), Centre Pompidou Paris (2021), National Gallery of Indonesia (2019), and other venues and institutions. Recent solo exhibitions and focus programmes have been presented at Gasworks, London (2024); the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2024); Z33, Hasselt (2024); the Centre de la Photographie Genève (2023); and Batalha Centro de Cinema, Porto (2023), among others.
Priyanka Sen
Priyanka Sen (b. 1996, Kolkata) is a Bengali writer, editor, and film curator based in Hong Kong. In 2019, she graduated from Oberlin College, where she specialised in South Asian postcolonial films and literatures, and Marxist-Feminist approaches in IR. She is currently a Digital Editor at the arts and culture video channel NOWNESS ASIA.
Derek Tumala
Derek Tumala (lives and works in Manila, Philippines) is an artist working with emerging technologies, moving image and various media in the pursuit of ecological world-making. His art practice revolves around the mediation of science in art and the idea of interconnectedness and conviviality. Tumala graduated at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila in 2006 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts Major in Advertising Arts. Tumala’s artistic projects are part of the 36th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts in 2025 and were presented at the Biennale Jogja 17 in Yogyakarta, World Weather Network, Basel Academy of Art and Design, Sainsbury Centre in Norwich, and Museum of Contemporary Art & Design in Manila, among others. He attended residencies at Delfina Foundation in London, Manila Observatory Artist-in-Residency, Apexart Fellowship in New York City, and 10×10 Korea Research Fellow. Tumala is named as one of the Cultural Center of the Philippines’s Thirteen Artists Award 2025 and ArtReview Magazine’s Future Greats 2024.
Yuyan Wang
Yuyan Wang, born in China and currently based in Paris, is a filmmaker and video artist. Her work engages with recycled materials from the industrial sphere of image production, tracing their mutation and proliferation within digital frameworks and representations. Through editing, Wang deconstructs and recontextualizes the hierarchies and embedded meanings of found, processed, and produced materials—stripping symbols of their habitual paths of perception and transforming them into immersive sensory experiences. Her films have been presented at Tate Modern, Palais de Tokyo, UCCA Beijing, the 12th Berlin Biennale, the 15th Gwangju Biennale, and e-flux Video & Film, as well as at festivals including Berlinale, IFFR, MoMA Doc Fortnight, CPH:DOX, and EMAF, where her work has received multiple awards.
