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SAHEJ RAHAL
Mythmachine
24 September 2022 – 3 September 2023
About the Artist
Sahej Rahal
born. 1988
Education:
2011 Diploma in Fine Arts, Rachana Sansad Academy of Fine Arts and Crafts, Mumbai, IN
Rahal’s participation in group and solo exhibitions includes the recent Gwangju Biennale, the Liverpool Biennial, the Kochi Biennale, the Vancouver Biennale, MACRO Museum Rome, Kadist SF, ACCA Melbourne, 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, and the first Human-Machine Fellowship organized by Junge Akademie ADK. His exhibition Ancestors is currently on view at the JNAF gallery in the CSMVS Museum in Mumbai.
sahejr@gmail.com
http://chatterjeeandlal.com/artists/sahej-rahal/
Mythmachine is part of Baltic’s ongoing exhibition strand that explores play. It includes a new body of work conceived as an immersive virtual playground that responds to chaos, luck and chance.
Mythmachine comes from the future and will transform and expand in response to players. It is a site for the rehearsal of cohabitation between human and non-human systems through speech, song and rhythm.
The space is really big and comfortable to view as a viewer.
The object and film correspondence very well. I really love the colors, very vibrant
I just really enjoyed to take a moment a make this little drawing of Rahal’s mini sculpture
Different artwork of Sahej Rahal:
Feedback Loops | Group Show | ACCA Melbourne
“What should be taken as the cornerstone of Sahej Rahal’s work Antraal 2019, is that we can rationally imagine what it would mean to live as the last humans, machines which have navigated their time of Idea and history since the advent of the first humans or us. They have refused and subverted the totality of their contingent appearance and significance of their historical manifestations as mere misconceptions of what it means to wander in time, as an Idea and not merely a species. Clearly, such a speculation cannot be total, for it is more akin to the reconstruction of the idea of a machinic conception of humanity from the lights that come through the cracks in the concept of humanity as situated here and now. To reconstruct the play or dance of these lights—however insufficient these clues might be—is the very definition of taking the timeless Idea of the Human sternly. And what is a human who does not acknowledge or reinvent itself in different guises? The self-consciousness of the fact that we have always been artifacts of our own historical concepts leads to the understanding that what comes after us and through our practices is also us but not burdened by the particularity of our wheres and whens. It is truly an outside perspective into what we are right here and now.
– Excerpt from A Life That Wanders In Time By Reza Negarestani” http://www.sahejrahal.com/Antraal
Continuous Voyage | Sun Wa Centre | Vancouver Biennale | 2019 👇
Paintings:
Missing Pages | Paintings | Minds Rising Spirits Tuning | 13th Gwangju Biennale | 2021
The junction of natural history, folklore, and metaphysics is the ground on which Rahal realized the Missing Pages series (2018–ongoing). Presented at the Yangnim Mountain, this ongoing collection of paintings is informed by encyclopedic representations of imaginary beasts and characters in the format of a‘jā’ib al-makhlūqāt literature, a genre of classical Islamic illustrated manuscripts. Djinnis, drummers, and celestial birds are just some of the characters in the cosmological fiction that Rahal has assembled to look at citizenship vis-à-vis the appropriation of religious symbols that proliferate along casteist, patriarchal, and nationalist ideologies in contemporary India. – Michelangelo Corsaro
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