Dr. Jareh Das is an independent curator working between the UK and West Africa. Her work explores the intersections of modern and contemporary art, as well as performance. Das holds a PhD in Curating Art and Science: New Methods and Sites of Production from Royal Holloway, University of London, where her research explored live art practices within the context of visual arts. Her curatorial and writing practices privilege embodied knowledge and move fluidly across exhibitions, performance, and critical texts. Between 2020 and 2024, she developed and led curatorial projects with institutions across Europe and West Africa, including Camden Art Centre, Deptford X Festival, and Galerie Atiss Dakar. Her writing spans exhibition catalogues, academic journals, magazines, and artist monographs.

Chenoa Baker (she/her) is a curator, writer, professor, and descendant of self-emancipators. She has contributed to major exhibitions, including Gio Swaby: Fresh Up at the Peabody Essex Museum, Touching Roots: Black Ancestral Legacies in the Americas at the MFA/Boston, Simone Leigh at the ICA/Boston, and Simone Leigh: Sovereignty debuted at the US Pavilion for the Venice Biennale. In recognition of her curatorial work, she received the WBUR Maker Award and was featured on NPR’s All Things Considered in 2024. In 2023, she won the AICA Young Art Critics Prize for her writing. She writes for Hyperallergic, The Observer, The Brooklyn Rail, Material Intelligence, and Studio Potter, among others.