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Sahej Rahal, Contingent Farwell, 2016. Documentation of performance. Photography by Christie Yuri Noh
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Sahej Rahal, Dry Salvages, 2017. Documentation of performance. Photography by Reece Straw. Primary, Nottingham
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Sahej Rahal, Undergod, 2016. Mixed media sculpture. Liverpool Biennial
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Sahej Rahal, Walker VI, 2013. Polyester fur, found branches
Exhibition
Sahej Rahal: Barricadia
16 Sep 2017 – 29 Oct 2017
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 350 Sauchiehall Street
- Glasgow
- G2 3JD
- United Kingdom
Since July, Sahej Rahal has been developing a new body of work on residency at Cove Park to be presented in CCA’s gallery spaces as his first solo project in Scotland.
About
Rahal works with a range of media including performance, video, installation and sculpture to explore the imagined destruction of the world as we know it. His work draws upon sources ranging from local folk legends, political events and science fiction – which are brought into dialogue with one another in the space – creating an elaborate and absurd mythology of imagined futures. Using discarded objects found in present day Scotland, Rahal creates artefacts which act as portals to a multitude of different times and spaces.
The exhibition emerges from a grimoire and a collection of artefacts excavated from an imagined land – Barricadia – charting its borders and histories. The objects and narratives that construct this place repurpose and stitch together fictional encounters upon historical fact and contemporary events from India. The exhibition is part of a wider episodic dialogue about his practice, where sculptures and performances have been expanded and remade across a series of exhibitions, firstly at Primary, Nottingham in 2017 then travelling to MAC, Birmingham in 2018.
Cove Park and CCA have developed several international projects together in recent years. In 2008, Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas was based at Cove Park for three months and the work produced resulted in a solo exhibition at CCA and the publication Autoconstrucción. In 2012, and in partnership with Chisenhale Gallery, London, Cove Park hosted Berlin-based artist Mariana Castillo Deball and work developed during her residency was exhibited at CCA and Chisenhale Gallery.
Supported by Henry Moore Foundation Fellowship Fund and British Council Scotland.
Events:
Artist and curator exhibition tour, Sat 16 Sep, 1pm, Free on the door
Barricadia curated film programme including Narcissicon (2012) by Kiran Subbaiah, and Forerunner (2013) by Sahej Rahal, Tue 19 Sep, 6pm, Free but ticketed
Film screening, Stalker (dir. Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979) Wed 4 Oct, 6pm, Free but ticketed
Reading and discussion event, Tue 24 Oct, 6pm, Free but ticketed
