Minia lives in Saint-Claude, Guadeloupe. Working across film & installation, her practice explores the entanglements of body, territory, and memory in the Caribbean, addressing the afterlive of colonialism through a powerful poetics of relation. She is also a healer.
Vir Andres Hera (he/they) is an experimental filmmaker and visual artist working with expanded cinema across multichannel installation, sound, performance, and writing.
Their work draws from personal and collective archives to assemble fragmented audiovisual constellations that engage diasporic consciousness, exile, gender identity, and memory.
Through superimposition, multilingualism, and temporal disjunction, their films challenge hegemonic histories while foregrounding queer, Chicana, and Black epistemologies.
Hera is a graduate of Le Fresnoy and Mo.Co. Montpellier, and studied at UQAM in Montréal. Their work has been presented internationally at institutions including Centre Pompidou, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Gaîté Lyrique, Luma Foundation Westbau, Mimosa House London, the Lyon Biennale, STUK Leuven, and the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney.
They currently teach cinema at Villa Arson and serve on the editorial committee of Qalqalah قلقلة.
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Chinampa
Chinampa is a France-based non-profit association, publishing house, and production platform. It operates as a mobile framework and has accompanied projects by Ife Day, Dora García, Vir Andres Hera, and Léonce Konan Noah.
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Hiethem Abdalla
H. is a Mexican-Sudanese performer and writer based in Mexico City.
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Line Ajan
Line is an independent curator based between Marseille and Paris, member of Qalqalah Qق, working on vernacular images, exhibition histories, and transnational artistic circulations.
Shakti Aniorte-Mendez
Shakti is a researcher, writer and creative producer working across film, criticism and curatorial projects.
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Eva Barois de Caevel
Eva is an independent curator based in France, working on feminism, postcolonial studies and critical writing.
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Mahesh Batsou
Mahesh is a French-Indian composer and sound designer creating experimental scores in dialogue with visual art and performance.
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Virginie Bobin
Virginie is an independent curator, member of Qalqalah Qق, working across feminist methodologies, artistic research, translation, and collective forms of knowledge production.
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Carmen Boullosa
Carmen Boullosa is a major Mexican writer and poet whose work radically reimagines history through feminist and experimental narratives.
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Alexandre Cabanne
Alexandre is a French-Tunisian cinematographer based in Brussels, working across experimental, independent and mainstream cinema.
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Omar Castillo Alfaro
Omar is a Mexican artist based in France, he creates immersive installations that reactivate the mythologies surrounding ancestral techniques as an exploration of Mesoamerican futurism.
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Lo Coletti
Lo is a Mexican dancer, choreographer and multidisciplinary performer focused on Trans rights, body research, video, poetry and gender.
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Maryse Condé
Maryse Condé is a foundational figure of Caribbean and world literature, whose novels and essays profoundly transformed feminist, postcolonial and diasporic thought.
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Steven Correia
Steven works across sculpture, installation, and computational media. His practice examines systemic violence and how technological systems reshape empathy, identity, and the body. He is a key studio collaborator of Vir Andres Hera.
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Amina Damerdji
Amina is a novelist published by Gallimard, working across literature and contemporary art, where language becomes a site of translation, displacement, and colonial afterlives.
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Xaneri Damian
Xaneri is a Mixtec/Ñuu Savi textile artist and Muxe activist from Oaxaca working with textiles and queer cultural practices. She was the Muxe Queen of Mexico City in 2024.
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Ife Day
Artist writer and performer who works from an ecology of recurring motifs such as dream, wandering and childhood, in order to reinvent the commons and counter all unidirectional trajectories.
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Ziphozenkosi Dayile
Zipho is a South African artist and curator focusing on communality, encounter and collective cultural practices.
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Regina De Con Cossio
Regina moves between philosophy, literature, art, and politics. She founded Fomento Sybaris in Mexico and works from the South as a perspective, opening space for intercontinental dialogue.
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Juana was a poet and philosopher in colonial Mexico. She wrote with unusual intellectual freedom, expressing what we would today call queer desire. She publicly defended women’s right to study and think, enduring the tension between faith and insubordination.
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Leho de Sosa
Leho is an Uruguayan artist and designer based in Paris. His work explores what he calls “arte marica sudaka,” a queer and decolonial South American vision blending identity, memory, and cultural resistance.
Aneth Depoutot
Aneth is a French artist and filmmaker who explores the legacies of romanticism and mediums of capture and their relationship to queer utopias, through words, fictionalization and collaboration.
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Anja Dietmann
Anja is a Hamburg-based artist, editor, and publisher. She is the founding editor-in-chief of Pfeil Magazine, published by Montez Press since 2012, and works across performance, music, sculpture, and publishing.
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Eloisa Diez
Eloisa is an audiovisual producer, documentary maker and sound recordist working on community and gender-focused projects.
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Sheila Donovan
Sheila is a Paris-based artist working across experimental music, painting, and choreography. Shaped by New York’s downtown scene, collaborations with Jérôme Bel, and teaching at the École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, she also collaborates at times with her daughter, Aïcha Atala.
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Montasser Drissi
Montasser is a Paris-based graphic and type designer, member of Qalqalah Qق, whose research focuses on the power relations between dominant and minoritized languages.
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Nadine Dröste
Nadine is a curator working across exhibitions, publishing, and institutional practice. She founded VIS in Hamburg, led Kunstverein Bielefeld from 2019 to 2023 and now works in the cultural programme of the Goethe-Institut Brussels.
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Daniel Engels
Daniel is a lawyer and activist from Mexico City. He is one of the founders of the anti-racist platform and collective Prietologias.
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Johan Fourcroy
Johan is an artist and photographer. Through his DIY processes, he questions belief systems, trying to scratch the shape of reality.
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Gabriela Fuentes Miranda
Gabriela is a Colombian artist, performer and musician whose practice explores cycles of violence, memory and the body.
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Renaud Gadoury
Renaud is a curator and writer working within exhibitions and residencies, including programming at Fonderie Darling in Montreal.
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Daniel Galicia
Daniel is a Mexican performer and artist exploring identity, migration and intimacy through drawing, painting and performance.
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Serge Ghazale
Serge is a Lebanese-born composer, musician, and performer who also works under the name So Dope Soda.
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Tom Gineyts
Tom is a director of photography exploring light and framing.
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Victorine Grataloup
Victorine is a curator, co-founder of Qalqalah Qق, and Director of Triangle-Astérides, whose collaborative practice explores language, political imaginaries, and minority representations.
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Fabienne Guilbert Burgoa
Fabienne is an artist working between contemporary art and textile design, developing long-term projects through collaboration with textile communities.
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Ixaya
Ixaya is a Franco-Mexican rapper blending Spanish and French into his self-named “frañol” style, rooted in cross-cultural expression and the experience of barrio life.
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Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński
Belinda is an artist and scholar based in Vienna. She draws on Black feminist theory to confront the unresolved present of colonial violence. Her practice moves through absences, and ghostly matter, refusing the separation between document and speculation.
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Leonce Konan Noah
Leonce is an Ivorian choreographer and visual artist based in France, working with heterolingual practices and embodied everyday gestures.
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Kama la Mackerel
Kama is a writer, artist, performer, ritualist and translator whose work explores insularity, oceanic memory, trans poetics, créolité, and decolonial ecologies. Originally from Mauritius, they live and love in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal.
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Cassandre Langlois
Cassandre is a curator and researcher working on artistic exchanges between the Caribbean and Europe. Her projects bring together artists, writers and researchers through collaborative and research-based formats.
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Coline Lasbats
Coline is an artist, photographer and writer. She lives and works between Clermont-Ferrand and the Gers region, she is also a sexy smart lesbian.
Gilbert Laumord
Gilbert Laumord is an artist whose work weaves gwoka, a Guadeloupean dance and percussion form, Black radical thought and poetic language.
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Clovis Maillet
Clovis Maillet is a medievalist, writer, and filmmaker who reads the Middle Ages through queer and trans lenses, turning saints, mystics, and forgotten bodies into living questions about gender and desire.
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Ulises Matamoros
Ulises is an Indigenous Ngiba Mexican artist, educator, and independent curator working with intuition, community-based research, and collective archives.
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Salma Mochtari
Salma is a Marseille-based researcher and curator, member of Qalqalah Qق, whose work engages archival absence, Black studies, and decolonial and queer critical theory.
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Katia Porro
Katia Porro is a Cuban-Floridian curator and writer based in France. She is Director of In extenso and La Belle Revue. Her research engages the political life of the built environment and the power of regression and vulnerability as critical positions.
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Aurélien Potier
Aurélien is an artist working across sound, text and form, creating sensitive environments shaped by vulnerability and disorientation.
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Juf Projects
Juf is a curatorial and research project focused on contemporary art and poetry. Directed by Bea Ortega Botas and Leto Ybarra, it is based between New York and Madrid.
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Gato Que Pinta
Gato is an artist from Tehuacán, Mexico. Their work combines illustration, muralism, performance, and digital media to highlight sexual diversity, queer affections, and dissident struggles.
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Ane Rodríguez Armendáriz
Ane is a curator working between visual art, moving image, and institutional practice. She has shaped major platforms for artistic production and research in Spain such as Matadero and Tabakalera. Her practice focuses on designing the conditions that sustain artistic processes, particularly through residency programmes.
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Cheb Runner
Cheb Runner is a Moroccan-born producer, composer and DJ blending traditional sounds with electronic music across genres.
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Yanik Savoie
Yanik Savoie is a queer Acadian artist and interpreter. He uses video editing in his practice to create movement vocabulary and dance films. He is fascinated by joy, calligraphy, spirals, gender, and textures.
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Gwenaëlle Tatoué
Gwenaëlle is a Reunionese-Guadeloupean-Congolese poet, writer, and slam performer working with spoken word, voice, and collective performance practices.
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Chasen Thajni
Chasen Thajni is a collective founded in 2019 by artist Ulises Matamoros Ascención with members of the Ngiba Indigenous community in Puebla, Mexico. Created as a communal space, the project has evolved into a distributed network across the Ngiba nation, fostering cultural transmission, autonomy, and collective self-representation.
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Annabela Tournon-Zubieta
Annabela is a French-Mexican art critic and lecturer at the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Her writing traces modern and contemporary art through feminist and decolonial histories, with a strong focus on Latin America.
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Yvelizra (Lysa Irene) Velasquez
Yve is a Lesbian Mexican-American artist working with analog photography and intimate dyke performance practices, usually involving fear and filth.
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Mona Young-eun Kim
Mona is a South Korean curator and artist working with interdisciplinary and speculative practices around technology, space, and future imaginaries.
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Maya Zaton
Maya is an artist living in the Paris suburbs. Her work grows from the communities she moves through, from her Polish roots to her coworkers, weaving inquiries into a subtle poetic language.
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Belinda Zhawi
Belinda is a Zimbabwean literary and sound artist exploring Afrodiasporic narratives, colonial legacies and sound-text performance.
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