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Sahjan Kooner

Sahjan has recently been exploring their ancestral village in North India and its future(s) using a lens of science fiction and fantasy, they  develop transporting works conceived by an enquiry that blends personal experience with technology and ecology. They work with a collaborative and contaminated  approach to infect and alter the histories and future speculations off the site. They conjure a visitation of the village which delves into the lineage of the lives, mutations, migrations, technologies, sociologies off the inhabitants of the village.

Sahjan Kooner is an amalgamation of inherited worlds and speculative futures, they work in a freelance capacity to support their practice and owe a great deal to their family, they are a student of the dream state. Using video and installation, they create expansive worlds that explore the traces of love, hope and imagination that make our lives possible, along with examining a debris of questions around the technological, social and racialised structures that augment life.

zodiac: Sagittarius
rising: Capricorn
moon: Libra

alignment: Chaotic Good

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