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Gaëlle Choisne (b. 1985, France) combines a documentary approach (photography and video) with the use of raw materials, addressing socio-political issues related to the over-exploitation of natural resources and colonial history. Born of a Haitian mother and a Breton father, the artist blends oral traditions, Creole mythology and popular cul- ture in works that refer to both Haiti’s history and her own personal narrative. Choisne has been awarded the Marcel Duchamp Prize 2024. Recent solo exhibitions include Maât and the tears of god, Espace Croisé, Roubaix (2024), and Reiffers Art Initiatives with Lorna Simpson, Acacias Art Center, Paris (2023); Monument aux Vivant·e·s – DÉNI, Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris (2023); Blue Lights in the Basement, NiCOLETTi, London (2022); and Temple of Love – Atopos, MAC VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine (2022). She has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including PickPocket, Fondazione Zimei, Teatro Michetti, Pescara (2023), and Ceremony (Burial of an Undead World), HKW, Berlin (2022). 

Kettly Noël is a multidisciplinary artist born in Haiti whose work combines dance, theater and visual arts. Trained in dance in Port-au-Prince under major figures such as Viviane Gautier, Rachel Jean-Louis and the Patrick Lacroix Company, she continued her journey in Paris, where she also trained in acting with Jack Waltzer of the Actor's Studio. Her career led her to collaborate in film and on stage with authors and directors such as Abderrahmane Sissako and Alain Mabanckou. As an actress, she has appeared in several notable films, including Total Eclipse directed by Agnieszka Holland, Timbuktu by Abderrahmane Sissako and L'Histoire du soldat by Jean Rochefort, thus enriching her artistic journey through diverse and memorable roles.

A key figure in the contemporary African dance scene, she founded the Donko Seko association and the Daoudabougou choreographic center in Bamako in 2002, followed by the Dense Bamako Danse festival, which has become a major event for contemporary creation on the continent. Her work explores notions of identity, memory, political body and marginality, through a style that is at once radical, poetic and deeply embodied. Among her most notable creations are: Tichèlbè, Je ne suis plus une femme noire, Zombification (presented at Documenta), and Danse Mutante in collaboration with Mélanie Demers. Her performances have been presented at the most renowned venues and festivals, including the Venice Biennale, in South Korea, the United States, in France at the Festival d'Avignon, Montpellier Danse, La Villette, as well as throughout Europe, Africa and the Caribbean. Winner of the Danse l'Afrique danse! prize in 2003, she was awarded the title of Chevalière des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture in 2018.

Daniele Morelli was born in Tuscany and began to study piano at the age of 7 and guitar at the age of 11. He listened to and played a lot of blues from a very early age although improvisation was always his preferred way to approach any style of music. One of his first bands was Milvus, a progressive rockband which used to tour in Italy and the Netherlands. He moved to France to study in the Conservatory of Lyon, then to Brussels where jazz was an everyday appointment. He played with his own quartet — the “Morelli Electric Quartet” — and others projects between France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Italy for a while before moving to Mexico City where he is currently based. He continues to play in numerous festivals and jazz clubs with his new projects “Daniele Morelli standard trio”, “Dada Beat Orchestra” and “GrupoTsikuaki”. He has recorded three albums under his own name: "Mision azul", "La valigia dei sogni" and "Ars Musica". In 2024 he released 4 albums: Ya Maa Diali, with Liat Bar on bass and Abraham Lopez Calderon on drums; Agua in duo with Mexican vibraphonist Miguel Alzerreka; Consistenza Umana with crystallophonist Robert Tiso dedicated to the Volterra Asylum and Cinema with French drummer Hadrien Santos da Silva. All albums were published with OFF Record (Brussels).