Amal Kenawy

Egyptian artist Amal Kenawy’s work is populated with enigmatic forms and recurring symbols that she uses to represent memory, inner and outer worlds, and shared experience. Much of her work refers to the oppression of women within Egyptian and Muslim society.

Nada Sehnaoui

a Beirut-based visual artist whose work, paintings, and installations deal with issues of war, personal memory, public amnesia, the writing of history, and the construction of identity.

http://www.nadasehnaoui.com/

Zhang Dali (China)

Chinese Offspring features 15 life-sized figures suspended upside down from the ceiling. Each one represents a migrant construction worker 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Dali

Bai Yiluo (China)

Works often incorporate photography and traditional sculptural techniques, media disparate in their ancient and contemporary connotations. Bai draws upon these to develop installations which reflect the human condition as a cyclical struggle, torturously beautiful and poetically triumphant. Bai’s Civilization is a haunting monument enshrining imperious power as a corrupted vision built on labourers’ toil. Made from terracotta, classical busts pose as emperors and slaves, pierced through and defined by agricultural tools, a life force and bane. Set upon twelve individual plinths, Civilization bridges reference to both Eastern and Western spiritualism, while its violent form suggests revolution, conflict, and rebirth as the isochronal quality of nature.