Anri Sala

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Anri Sala (b. 1974) creates hauntingly simple videos that explore the roles language and vision play in fractured contemporary society.

Anri Sala is represented by Galerie Chantal Crousel (Paris), Hauser & Wirth (Zurich/London) and Marian Goodman Gallery (New York).

Mark Godfrey teaches at The Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. He has written catalogue essays on Fiona Tan, Tacita Dean and Matthew Buckingham, and he contributes regularly to Artforum, Frieze and October. In 2002 he curated an exhibition at Camden Arts Centre on the work of Douglas Huebler.

Hans Ulrich Obrist is Co-Director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery, London. He has been co-curator of such international biennials as Manifesta 1 (Rotterdam, 1996), the 50th Venice Biennale (2003) and the 2nd Guangzhou Biennale (2005). Currently Inviato Speciale of Domus magazine, Obrist has also edited more than sixty books, including Hans Ulrich Obrist Interviews, Volume 1 (2003) and do it (2005).

Liam Gillick is an artist based in London and New York, whose work has received widespread acclaim, including a 2002 nomination for the Turner Prize.

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