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Hiroshi Sugimoto is a Japanese photographer and architect. He divides his time between Tokyo and New York City. Sugimoto has exhibited extensively in major museums and galleries throughout the world, and his work is held in numerous public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; National Gallery, London; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.; and Tate, London, among others.

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Philip Larratt-Smith is a Canadian curator and writer. He has curated exhibitions around the world, from Museo Jumex and the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, to the Qatar Museums Authority in Doha. From 2002 to 2010, Larratt-Smith worked as Louise Bourgeois’ literary archivist, resulting in the discovery of Bourgeois’ psychoanalytic writings, which became the core of his landmark exhibition and two-volume publication The Return of the Repressed (2012).

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Iran do Espírito Santo is a Brazilian artist based in São Paulo. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide, and is included in the collections of institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He has also participated in the Venice Biennale, Bienal de São Paulo, and Istanbul Biennal. His work has been included in the recent exhibitions The Portrait as an Image of the World at the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, and Present Tense at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

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