Overview

Cove Park and CCA invited Sahej Rahal to spend ten weeks in Scotland this summer. In July ’17, Rahal started 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.

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 facts and contemporary events from India. The exhibition was 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 traveling to MAC, Birmingham in 2018.

“Barricadia”, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow. https://www.cca-glasgow.com/programme/sahej-rahal-barricadia