Artists

Prem Sahib

Press release

Kin is a portrait of a stray in the form of a roaming shadow. Unsteady and emaciated, Kin noses at the edges of space, pacing, hesitating, searching for a place to settle.

Semi-transposed from an online clip of a dog amid the rubble of a city under siege, Kin is a new installation that combines digital animation, projection mapping and sound to occupy the space of 10 - 16 Grape Street. The existence of the stray, here a disembodied shadow or trace, persists on loop, overlapping with the shadows of those who approach it.

Kin exists within a soundscape constructed of sine waves in different registers, colliding across a range of frequencies. Moving from lower, more guttural tones to the higher pitch of a dog whistle, a cycling audio ‘sweep’ reveals a palette of sound and vibration used to act upon Kin’s visitors.

A new suite of Horizon paintings – works made by injecting paint by hand into the reverse of milled acrylic panels – populate the units of number 10. Resembling residual light held in the pixels of LED screens, each composition depicts an abstract horizon line broken by an intermittent laser-like mark.

To accompany the exhibition, Sahib has written four poems: Kin, Genus, Horizon, and The Skin of a Flag (2026).