Denise Ferreira da Silva & Valentina Desideri
Denise is a philosopher, writer, and filmmaker. Her academic and artistic works address the ethical and political challenges of the global present. She is the author of Toward a Global Idea of Race (2007), A Dívida Impagável (2019), Unpayable Debt (2022) and co-editor (with Paula Chakravartty) of Race, Empire, and the Crisis of the Subprime (2013). Her artistic work includes the films Serpent Rain (2016) and 4Waters-Deep Implicancy (2018), in collaboration with Arjuna Neuman.
Valentina explores artmaking as a form of study and study as a form of making art. She trained in contemporary dance, fine arts and is currently a PhD candidate at the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. She provides fake therapy and political therapy, and she co-organizes Performing Arts Forum (PAF) in France. Denise and Valentina are members of the online platform ehcho.org. The Sensing Salon has been shown at Kunstverein Hamburg, Kadist (Paris), The Showroom (London), Arika (Glasgow), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Hangar (Lisbon), and Artspeaks (Vancouver) among others.