In Bolivian-born American artist Agatha Wara’s practice, phantasms of identity are excavated as the self is constructed and dissolved, subject to fictionalization and narrativization, (re)presented on- and off-stage. Wara’s work combines textual endeavors, video, sculpture, performance, and occasional parties. Within these realms, real-life desires meet disappointments and become vehicles that the artist uses to colonize feelings of belonging and alienation. With a distinct emotional component, the work displays a type of angst, perhaps of the American teenage girl variety—emotionally stunted, and “unintelligent”—serving as a lens through which Wara processes her own native roots. South American llamas appear as avatars, fashion and glamour meets rural trash, while tradition and myth is mashed up with contemporary commerce. Agatha received her MFA at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Oslo and MA at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY and Wiels Residency Program, Brussels. Exhibitions include Borgenheim Rosenhoff, Oslo; AFFILIATE (Wiels), Brussels; Mécènes du Sud, Montpellier; Galerie Yeche Lange, New York; National Museum of Art, Oslo; Etablissment d’en face, Brussels; Centralbanken Oslo; Kunsthall Oslo; K-U-K, Trondheim.

Jim C. Nedd is an artist and musician. His work often involves collaborations, most recently with artists Yuri Ancarani and Invernomuto. He has exhibited at Museion, Bozen; MACRO, Rome; MAMBO, Bogotá; Cinemateca Digital, Bogotá; Athens Biennale #7, Athens; Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Triennale, Milan and Auto Italia, London. His work has also been presented in galleries such as Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels/Zurich; Gregor Staiger, Milan/Zurich; Sandy Brown, Berlin and Mishkin Gallery, New York. In music, he co-founded the experimental electronic duo Primitive Art with Matteo Pit. Together, they released the EP Crab Suite (Arcola, 2018) and the LP Problems (Hundebiss Records, 2012). Since 2020, they have been developing the artistic project Shelter, with Chapter 1 debuting at Triennale Milano. His work has been featured in Aperture, Flash Art, Vogue Italia, Kaleidoscope, GQ, Esquire, and Revue. Nedd has also collaborated with fashion brands such as Armani, Bottega Veneta, Gucci and Prada. From 2015 to 2020, he was part of the editorial team of Toilet Paper magazine, founded by Pierpaolo Ferrari and Maurizio Cattelan. Since 2023, Nedd has co-founded Black History Month Milano, and since 2019, he has been a contributor to UNICEF, producing photo reportages in Milan, Sicily, Beirut, and along the Syrian border.