Prem Sahib
That Fire Over There, 2023
£22
A publication expanding on a series of three exhibitions made by Prem Sahib, collectively titled Descent and shown at Southard Reid Gallery in 2019–20.
Dimensions
24 x 17 cm
Finishing
240 pages
Signed by the artist.
Prem-Sahib, 'Documents of a recent past', 2025. Courtesy of the artist. Photo Sarah Rainer.
About The Artwork
'That Fire Over There' takes fire as a metaphor for ideas around queer attachment, proximity, and personal and collective transformation. It also excavates the history of a real fire which in 1981 destroyed the Hambrough Tavern – a contested site symbolic of provocation and conflict against far-right groups in Southall, west London, where Prem Sahib grew up. Editors: Homersham, Lizzie; Sammut, Paul Contributors: Balani, Sita; Farronato, Milovan; Maybury, Reba; Sepahvand, Ashkan Publisher: Book Works Designer: Martin McGrath Studio Printer: KOPA
About Prem Sahib
Prem Sahib (b. 1982, London). Sahib works primarily in sculpture, installation, performance, sound, video and photography. Sahib’s practice embodies a poetic and provocative “destabilised minimalism”, referencing the architecture of public and private queer spaces, structures that shape individual and communal identities, senses of belonging, alienation and confinement.
Sahib’s work has been shown widely institutionally, including solo exhibitions Balconies, Kunstverein Hamburg and Side On, ICA London as well in group exhibitions at Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE; Migros Museum, Zürich, Switzerland; Whitechapel Gallery; Hayward Gallery, London; KW Institute of Art, Berlin, Germany; Des Moines Art Centre, Iowa, USA; and the Gwangju Biennale, South Korea.