Prem Sahib’s exhibition at Galleria Lorcan O’Neill in 2013 titled, ‘Back Chat’, features a series of paintings and sculptures created in the artist’s characteristic abstract, precise and minimalistic style. Each work, whether it was a rail of die-cut empty clothes hangers to symbolize the naked body, or an aluminium panel painstakingly painted with hundred droplets of resin to look like a steamy bathroom wall, was conceived in direct dialogue with Sahib’s convictions concerning intimacy, sexuality, relationships, desire and community. 

 

For his first institutional solo exhibition in London, Prem Sahib will present new and recent work in the Lower and Upper Galleries at the ICA. A palpable sense of the body and human touch permeates throughout Sahib’s works, which comprise sculpture, paintings, works on paper and performance. Often minimal and sparse in colour, Sahib’s works invariably stand in for the body rather than offer a figurative representation.