Prem Sahib / Shenece Oretha

The work of Prem Sahib embodies a poetic and provocative “destabilised minimalism”. It references the architecture of public and private spaces, 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, including solo institutional exhibitions at Balconies, Kunstverein Hamburg in 2017 and Side On, ICA in 2015, as well in group shows at Sharjah Art Foundation, Migros Museum, Whitechapel Gallery, Hayward Gallery, KW Institute of Art, Des Moines Art Centre and the Gwangju Biennale. Their work is in the collections of Tate, Arts Council England, the Government Art Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Norway, MONA in Australia and Walker Art Center.

Shenece Oretha (b. Montserrat) is a London based multidisciplinary artist sounding out the mobilising potential of sound and listening in art. Through multi-vocal and multichannel sound installations, sculpture, print, workshops and text Shenece Oretha amplifies and celebrates listening and sound as an embodied and collective practice. Her works are attentive to not just the music, but the musicality of Black oral and aural traditions, ceremonies and literature together with the emotional, physical and communal resonance they generate.