Gallery Exhibition at the Smart Museum
"Since 1989, the influential Delhi-based Sahmat has offered a platform for artists, writers, poets,musicians, actors, and activists to create and present works of art that promote artistic freedom and celebrate secular, egalitarian values.
The collective formed in the weeks after playwright, actor, and activist Safdar Hashmi was fatally attacked by political thugs while performing a street play. In the more than twenty years since, Sahmat has drawn on India's secular heritage and an expansive group of collaborators to produce a series of projects that engage in important political and social debates through a mix of high art and street culture.
India: Public Places Private Spaces
2008 Exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art
Photo by Atul Bhalla
I was Not Waving But Drowning II, 2005