For over three decades, Sahmat has been a “platform” that is inclusive and open, and has helped to create and maintain the space for cultural resistance. Sahmat has consistently attempted to break away from accepted and conventional formats of art-making and display, and has provided a space for showing and making art that speaks to more personal and local concerns. Sahmat’s projects reflect the camaraderie and community spirit of the Indian art scene, where artists of different generations and philosophical outlook have a close-knit sense of community and purpose.
At a time when right-wing politics in India is striving hard to restrict cultural space and freedom of dissent or artistic expression, while corporate globalisation deals another massive blow to multiplicity of our cultural practices, heritage and histories, it has become even more crucial to defend such a space for resistance.
