Prem Sahib (b. 1982, London). Recent exhibitions and performances include Alleus, co-commissioned by the Roberts Institute of Art and Somerset House Studios, at Somerset House and Edinburgh Art Festival (2024); The Life Cycle of a Flea, Phillida Reid, London (2023); and forms of the surrounding futures, the 12th Göteborg Biennial for Contemporary Art, curated by João Laia (2023). Sahib’s work has been shown widely institutionally, including solo exhibitions Balconies, Kunstverein Hamburg (2017) and Side On, ICA London (2015) as well in group shows at Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE; Migros Museum, Zürich, Switzerland; Whitechapel Gallery; Hayward Gallery, London; KW Institute of Art, Berlin, Germany; Des Moines Art Centre, Iowa, USA; and the Gwangju Biennale, South Korea.

Francesco Ventrella is associate professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Sussex, where he is also affiliated with the Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence. He has written on the history of art writing, and its relation to affect, resonance and the voice. His work has been published in Art History, Studi Culturali, British Art Studies and European Journal of Women’s Studies, and with Giovanna Zapperi he has edited the volume Feminism and Art in Postwar Italy: The Legacy of Carla Lonzi (Bloomsbury, 2020).

Prem Sahib, The Backstreet, 2025. Image courtesy of the artist and Phillida Reid, London. Photography by Prem Sahib and Mark Blower.