Wayfinder, Mumbai-based artist Sahej Rahal’s first exhibition in Kenya and East Africa, welcomes viewers into Rahal’s world where myth, narrative, imagination, and technology intertwine to challenge conventional understandings of reality and encourage them to become active participants in Rahal’s ever-expanding cosmology. The exhibition features two major video works, Distributed Mind Test (2023) and Anhad (2023), presented alongside drawings from The Book of Missing Pages (2018-2023) and new sculptural works. The title, Wayfinder, reflects his exploration of storytelling as a means to invite audiences into collaborative myth-making, encouraging them to engage actively with the narratives, question existing realities, and participate in the reimagining of new mythic landscapes. Navigation of Rahal’s fictional worlds prompts a reexamination of our place within established narratives, proposing alternative ways we might imagine and inhabit worlds beyond the ones we have inherited.
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Artist Biography
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Sahej Rahal (b. 1988) is a storyteller who weaves together fact and fiction to create counter-mythologies that interrogate narratives shaping the present. Rahal’s myth world takes the shape of sculptures, performances, films, paintings, installations, video games, and AI programs that he creates by drawing upon sources ranging from local legends to science fiction. He renders scenarios where indeterminate beings emerge from the cracks in our civilisation.
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Rahal’s participation in group and solo exhibitions includes 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 organised by Junge Akademie ADK, and the Eyebeam Democracy Machine Fellowship 2024.