Sahej Rahal | Ancestors | Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation, CSMVS

We are delighted to announce the opening of Sahej Rahal’s solo exhibition, Ancestors (पू र्व ज) curated by Puja Vaish on occasion of the CSMVS Museum’s centenary at the Jehangir Nicholson Gallery.

The exhibition brings together an extensive body of Rahal’s work that resonates with the underpinnings of the Museum in telling stories of civilisations.

Ancestors stages sculptural installations, drawings, paintings, writings, performance and an AI programme as an archaeolgical tomb-site of the future. Visitors enter a make-believe crypt with imagined relics of a posthuman civilisation.

Using archaeology as a metaphor, the Museum becomes a space to interrogate narratives that shape the world, its inhabitants and belief systems through a consideration of the human, ecological and digital imprints that are left behind.

This project was made possible by the support of The Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation (SSAF) Installation Art Grant 2019.