Join artist Sahej Rahal and writer Jamie Sutcliffe for a conversation that will challenge easy notions of worldbuilding, immersion and game-like art. Looking to animation, digital sculpture and generated environments they search for post-human myths that might help explain how we share our world with fictional entities and emerging intelligences.
Drawing on Rahal's work across drawing, writing and digital game worlds and Sutcliffe's curatorial research into animation and video game culture, the conversation asks how forms of play can shape and animate our encounters with contemporary art. Together they turn to the rich worlds of comic books and tabletop roleplaying games to question our fundamental presumptions about escapism, simulation and personal transformation.
Sahej Rahal was a recipient of a research and development grant for the 2026 Infinities Commission.
The Infinities Commission is supported by Glass Castle Foundation
Sahej Rahal
Sahej Rahal is an artist and assistant professor of Design Media Arts at, UCLA. Rahal creates counter-mythologies at the borderlines of myth and memory. His art practice has been featured in international exhibitions, including Sonsbeek 2026, MUNCH Triennial 2025, the 2024 Biennial of Moving Images at Centre d'Art Contemporain in Geneva, and most recently his solo exhibition ‘Beyond the City of Time’ at the Galerie Rudolfinum in Prague.
Jamie Sutcliffe
Jamie Sutcliffe is a writer, curator, and co-director of Strange Attractor Press. His essays, reviews, and interviews have been published internationally by Art Monthly, Art Review, e-flux, Frieze, The White Review, Rhizome, The Quietus, and Bricks from the Kiln amongst others. He is Associate Lecturer in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art, University of the Arts, London.
The Infinities Commission showcases the limitless potential for contemporary art. It provides a platform for artists who disrupt the boundaries between creative disciplines, inviting them to create an experimental new work for the Tanks, Tate Modern’s unique spaces dedicated to performance, installation and film. Each year an expert panel selects one international artist to receive the commission and three artists to receive research and development funding.
In 2026, the commissioned artist was nora chipaumire
The other two selected R&D artists were:
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme
CATPC, Cercle d'Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise
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