Sehej Kaur
ssehej@proton.me
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Sehej Kaur is an emerging artist working on Darug Country. Travelling between sterile, domestic and interwebbed worlds, Sehej seeks out points of tension and overlap, interested in embracing the forever flux of her body amongst extractive structures in the so-called West. Sehej utilises the digital landscape and its natural multiplicity as non-linear methods of re-archival and reclaim.
Beyond material practice, Sehej is radio maker for show Race Matters at FBI Radio and Co-director for Western Sydney ARI ‘Pari Gallery’ and the hybrid art/health space The Waiting Room Project.
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The Warmth That Lingers, for Race Matters @ FBi Radio
This piece weaves together Sehej and Leya’s stories, exploring their journeying through so-called Sydney, the dissonances and parallels, and moments of reprieve and comfort. This piece is a testament of community, friendship and soundwaves that allow us to dream of an alternate, liberated world.
https://www.fbi.radio/programs/race-matters/episodes/race-matters-22nd-march-2026
Counter-Cartographies, for Race Matters @ FBi Radio
Sonics to expand spatial imagination. Across the summer, we hear from DJs in the fbi family exploring the theme of Counter Cartographies - a sonic exploration collapsing colonial confines, inspired by the work of liberation geographer Saki Savavi
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTHq1wPiCKK/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Can we linger, 2025
Spring, 2025
Moon and Land, 2025
Commision for Wen Pei Low
Graphics for Wen Pei Low set at Limitless Play
Nobodily Autonomy, 2024
Sehej converges thresholds of time, space and pain as way to foreground the flux of her internalised landscape. As the extremities of bodily feelings emerge through inflation and shrivel of each organ, . The screen as body, lays bandaged to the chair that once accompanied a post-transplant recovery, falling vulnerable to public view.
Familial Dream 2022
How to Peel A Pomegranate
The hands of the artists mother fill the frame of How to Peel a Pomegranate, working to extract pomegranate seeds. An accompanying voice over tells the viewer the best technique for extracting the seeds and that one pomegranate seed can cure one thousand illnesses.
This familial scene of knowledge being passed from one generation to the next highlights the artists interest in inherited knowledge surrounding health and medicine. Sehej Kaur’s practice speaks to the tensions between cultural traditions of care and western medical practices. Her work is particularly focused on how this plays out when living within a diasporic community.
Emulating a shrine, the work How to Peel a Pomegranate sits close to the floor, surrounded by garlands. As the viewer you must lower yourself to the delineated space in order to view it. This act from the viewer further enhances the questioning of western expectations. That there are many ways to view and to approach the gaining of wisdom.
Using media as a form of archival exploration Sehej Kaur presents the viewer with a work that not only speaks of the way care and knowledge is passed on but actively gives that care and knowledge to the audience as they view it.
Words by Curator Tamara Elkins
Kisan Di Kirat Kirat Da Suad
'Kisan di Kirat, Kirat da suad' (the farmours labour, the taste of labour) forms as a diasporic response to India’s farmers protests that began at the start of the pandemic and re-ignited in 2024. In the recorded performance piece, Sehej revisits the familiar grounds of Parramatta Park, a place of passageway between childhood and adult worlds, where she first witnessed the grounds as a gathering place for brown families.
Barefoot and cross-legged, the artist reflects the stance of the thousands of farmers who formed blockades on the streets before Delhi and participates in a stripped back and tedious process of chai preparation. As the familiarised gesture loses its domesticity, Sehej transforms acts of ritual and routine into one rooted in solidarity with her lineage of labour.
On the opening night, Sehej engages in the in act of Seva (selfless service) a core value of Sikhism practiced routinely at temple and in community. The serving of chai becomes the final stage and communal offerings of the tastes of labour.