About Panels

Amal Khalaf

Amal Khalaf is a curator and artist who serves as Director of Programmes at Cubitt (2019–present) and is also co-curating Sharjah Biennial 16 (February–June 2025), UAE and Ghost 2568 (October - November 2025) Bangkok, Thailand. Amal Khalaf served as the Civic Curator at the Serpentine Galleries (2009–2023) and is now Curator at Large and Advisor for Public Practice, where she shaped the Civic programme and commissioned over 50 long term, collaborative projects, films and moving image works. There and in other contexts she has developed residencies, exhibitions and collaborative research projects at the intersection of arts and social justice. Projects include the Edgware Road Project and Centre for Possible Studies (2009-2013), , Radio Ballads (2019–2022) and Sensing the Planet (2021). She curated the Bahrain Pavilion for the 58th Venice Biennale (2019) and co-directed the Global Art Forum at Art Dubai (2016). She is a trustee of Mophradat, Athens, and not/nowhere, London, and a founding member of the GCC art collective. 

Nour Jaouda

Nour Jaouda is a Libyan artist who fuses life and aesthetic practice through her continual movements between places real and remembered. Fig trees belonging to the artist’s grandmother in Benghazi, Libya, lend their poetic impetus for the three textiles displayed in the Biennale Arte. Strongly attached to place, trees hold and embody memories. Jaouda recreates their botanical elements by deconstructing cloth, dyeing it in earthen tones, and then resewing it into sculptural tapestries. She draws from the personification of olive trees by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish in conceptualisation and title. Threaded through these and previous works are notions of rootlessness and resilience, destruction and regeneration, and timelessness. Jaouda relishes in the slow, physical, and felt processes of fabricating hand-dyed textiles. The textiles’ inherent connectivity begets their association with the eternal and divine; to the artist, textiles have no beginning or end. The vegetal dyes possess their own force and unpredictability, activating the work. Jaouda’s sumptuously layered fabrics reverberate with colours that are deep and ethereal, shadowy and luminescent, and as infinitely textured as memory itself. 

She obtained a BFA from the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University (2018), and MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London (2021). Recent exhibitions include the Islamic Arts Biennale 2025, Hepworth Wakefield (2024), Hauser & Wirth Somerset (2024), MOCO Montpellier Contemporain (2024), and the 60th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia (2024) 

Helen Cammock

Helen Cammock lives and works in North Wales and London. Her practice spans film, photography, print, text, song and performance; examining mainstream historical and contemporary narratives about Blackness, womanhood, oppression and resistance, wealth and power, poverty and vulnerability. Her works often cut across time and geography, layering multiple voices as she investigates the cyclical nature of histories in her visual and aural assemblages.   In 2017, Cammock won the Max Mara Art Prize for Women and in 2019 was the joint recipient of The Turner Prize. She has exhibited and performed worldwide with recent solo shows including Bass Notes and SiteLines, Amant, Brooklyn, USA (2023), Helen Cammock: I Will Keep My Soul, Art + Practice, Los Angeles, and UNO Gallery, New Orleans USA (2023), They Call it Idlewild, Oakville Galleries, Ontario, Canada (2023), behind the eye is the promise of rain, Kestner Gesellshaft, Hannover, Germany (2022), Concrete Feathers and Porcelain Tacks, The Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK (2021), Beneath the Surface of Skin, STUK Art Centre, Leuven, Belgium (2021), Che Si Può Fare (What Can be Done), Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2019), Che Si Può Fare, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy (2019) and The Long Note, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (2019); VOID, Derry, Northern Ireland (2018). Recent group shows include Soft Impressions, Dundee Contemporary Art (2024), Conversations, The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK (2024), Breathing, Hamburger Kunstalle, Hamburg, Germany (2022) and Radio Ballads, Serpentine Galleries, London, UK (2022). Upcoming group shows include Time For Women! 20 years of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy (2025), Inequalities, Triennale Milano, Milan, Italy (2025) and Connecting Thin Black Lines 1985 - 2025, The ICA, London, UK (2025).   She is represented by Kate MacGarry, London.