divine time #4 — sahej rahal

Sahej Rahal (1988, Mumbai IN) is an artist and assistant professor assistant of Design Media Arts at UCLA. Rahal is a storyteller, who draws upon cross-cultural mythologies and folklore, to create fictional worlds that take the shape of sculptures, performances, films, paintings, installations, video games, and AI simulation programs. 

Rahal’s work has been showcased internationally in exhibitions organized by museums and cultural institutions including the Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute in Kenya, the Biennial of Moving Images at Centre d’Art Contemporain in Switzerland, the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea, the Liverpool Biennial in the UK, the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in India, the Vancouver Biennale in Canada, MACRO Museum in Rome, Kadist in San Francisco, ACCA Melbourne, CCA Glasgow, the MUNCH Triennale in Norway in November 2025, and most recently, ‘Beyond the City of Time’ a solo exhibition at Galerie Rudolfinum in Prague, which opened February 2026. 

Rahal is the recipient of the Cove Park/Henry Moore Fellowship (UK), Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellowship (Germany), the Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation Installation Art Grant (India), the first Human-Machine Fellowship organized by Junge Akademie Der Künste (Germany), the Eyebeam Democracy Machine Fellowship 2024 (USA), the EPFL ‘Enter the Hyperscientific’ fellowship 2025 (Switzerland), and most recently, the Principal Residency Program fellowship organized by La Beque (Switzerland) and Tate Infinities research and development grant conferred by the Tate Modern (UK) 2025-26. 

divine time
Series of video-talks on sacred technology and alternative temporalities that explores how the languages of cinema and video games intersect with the spiritual, the mystical and the illuminated, tracing connections between techno-corporeal realism and the metaphysics of digital experience. This series is curated by Zaiba Jabbar, curator, researcher, award-winning filmmaker and founder of HERVISIONS, a curatorial agency, platform and digital art studio focused on women, producing innovative commissions, exhibitions and events with a strong emphasis on the intersection between art, technology and culture.

supported by portuguese republic – culture, youth and sports / general direction of the arts / network of portuguese theaters and cinemas (rtcp). portuguese contemporary art network (rpac).