Sahej Rahal
(b. 1988, India) lives and works in Mumbai, India. Sahej Rahal’s works are characterised by surreal propositions and alternate worlds, which seem to be situated in an unfamiliar future, while firmly rooted in lessons from the past. Rahal describes his recent body of work as a ‘growing mythology’, one that is in influenced by his deep interests in science fiction and contemporary new materialist philosophy, along with a critical engagement with the role of technology in our day-to-day lives, as well as a dark sense of humour.
Rahal’s group and solo exhibitions include the Biennial of Moving Images at Centre d'Art Contemporain in Geneva, the Gwangju Biennale, the Liverpool Biennial, the Kochi Biennale, the Vancouver Biennale, MACRO Museum Rome, Kadist SF, ACCA Melbourne, and CCA Glasgow. He is the recipient of the Cove Park/Henry Moore Fellowship, Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellowship, the Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation Installation Art Grant, the Digital Earth Fellowship, the first Human-Machine Fellowship organized by Junge Akademie ADK, and the Eyebeam Democracy Machine Fellowship 2024.
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Selected Works
Sahej Rahal
Mythmachine, 2022, Immersive multimedia installation with AI program, video, site-specific sculpture, comic books, sound, Dimensions variable
Sahej Rahal
Missing Pages (series), 2024, Powdered pigments, ink and mixed media on paper
Sahej Rahal
Untitled with drawings from Missing Pages (series), 2022, Fired terracotta, ink on paper, glass and wood vitrine
Sahej Rahal
Druj, 2024, Single channel AI program, interactive installation, duration and dimensions variable
Sahej Rahal
Arcana I, 2024, copper plate, oil, 40 x 25 cm
Sahej Rahal
Installation view, distributed Mind Test, 2024, Single-channel video, 2m 30s and single-screen video game, duration variable
Sahej Rahal
Walker (series), 2023, wood, fibreglass, acrylic, 80 x 45 x 20 cm
Sahej Rahal
Antraal and Other limbs 2020, Installation with artificial intelligence program presented on television monitors and as video projection, enamel paint on polyurethane and found materials (three parts), dimensions variable
Sahej Rahal
Distributed Mind Test, 2024, Single-channel video, 2m 30s and single-screen video game, duration variable
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