Title: A Broken House

Year: 2024

Media: Inkjet on Hannemuhle Rag 188gsm, Edition 1 of 10

Size:  42 x 29.7 cm

About the work:  A Broken House is part of a new series of works that pair dream fragments with abstract images of closeness – captured between the artists body, clothing and surrounding environment using a mobile phone. These sometimes unintended or accidental forms of image making are conceived of as ‘digital slippages’ – ambiguous, liminal spaces that anchor the poem-like texts and harness their capacity as tools of the unconscious.  

Bio: The work of Prem Sahib (b. 1982 in London) references the architecture of public and private spaces and structures that shape individual and communal identities, senses of belonging, alienation and confinement. Mixing the personal and political, abstraction and figuration, Sahib’s formalism is suggestive of the body as well as its absence, drawing attention to traces of touch and frameworks of looking. 

Sahib’s work has been shown widely institutionally including solo exhibitions Balconies, Kunstverein Hamburg (2017) and Side On, ICA London (2015), and is in collections of Tate, The Arts Council, Government Art Collection, The Royal Academy, UK; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA; KADIST, Paris; Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Norway; X Museum, Beijing, China; and MONA, Australia.