Sahej Rahal

Mumbai, India

Sahej Rahal, (Born 1988, Mumbai, IN) is primarily a storyteller. He weaves together fact and fiction to create mythological worlds that unfold within the present. These myth worlds take the shape of sculptures, performances, films, paintings, installations, videogames, and AI simulation programs in which indeterminate beings begin to emerge from the cracks between the real and the imagined.

Rahal’s participation in group and solo exhibitions include the Biennial of Moving Images (2024), Manifesta (2022), the 2021 Gwangju Biennale, the Liverpool Biennial, the Kochi Biennale, the Vancouver Biennale, the MACRO Museum Rome, Kadist SF, ACCA Melbourne, and CCA Glasgow.

He has received the Cove Park/Henry Moore Fellowship, the Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellowship, and the Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation Installation Art Grant, and won the Forbes India Art Award for best debut show for his solo exhibition Forerunner at Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai. Most recently he has been awarded the Eyebeam Democracy Machine Fellowship.

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