‘Choreographies of Compliance: Between Allowance and Acceptance’
On view from 20.02.2026 - 07.04.2026
Opening Night: 18:00 – 20:30: With an interactive performance starting at 18:00
Our upcoming show at SAC Art Amsterdam by Razia Barsatie and Rucha Kulkarni
Our first new show of 2026 brings together the works of Razia Barsatie and Rucha Kulkarni. ‘Choreographies of Compliance: Between Allowance and Acceptance’ considers how femininity is shaped through cultural inheritance, migration, and embodied negotiation. The opening night will begin with an interactive performance with the artists from 18:00-18:30, followed by the opportunity to engage with the artists over drinks. This is a free event, please RSVP
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Footnotes toObedience
Opening Night Performance Conceptualised by Rucha Kulkarni
As part of the Opening Night for our show, ‘Choreographies of Compliance: Between Allowance and Acceptance’, we’re thrilled to bring you a very special interactive performance. Inspired by the Indian ritual of marking a home entry withkumkumfootprintsthis performance reframes a gesture of transition into a site of dissent. Participants are invited to create their own pugmark while recording a social or cultural rule they find difficult to follow. This act collapses private struggle into a collective archive of resistance where the gallery floor, draped with a sari, becomes a shared testimony. Participation functions as a performative unlearning of inherited norms and the weight they leave behind. Join us at the threshold for this opening night ritual of negotiation and reflection.
This is a free event. Please RSVP.
About theArtists
Razia Barsatiecreates emotional landscapes informed by her Surinamese heritage to explore sensory experience and cultural memory. Using ecological materials and tapioca resin, the former Rijksakademie resident currently maintains her practice between Suriname and the Netherlands.
Rucha Kulkarniis an artist employing traditional craft and feminist pedagogy to explore identity and migration. Based between Amsterdam and Pune, her collaborative practice creates vital spaces for participation and dialogue.
UpcomingProgrammes
Art Night Thursday:
An evening of art, drinks,
film and conversation.
26.02.2026 | 16:00 – 20:00
For this edition of Art Night Thursday / ANT we will host the classic film 'Wan Pipel' which offers a moving portrait of love and belonging. The screening commences at 18:00 and features English subtitles. Join us for an evening of refreshments and shared dialogue featuring an intimate walkthrough of the show 'Choreographies of Compliance Between Allowance and Acceptance' by artists, Razia Barsatie and Rucha Kulkarni.
Admission is free. Please RSVP.
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Contemporary Art Workshop
with Rucha Kulkarni:
'Held, Not Counted'
08.03.2026 | 10:00 – 13:00
This workshop invites you to reimagine time as a currency of care and labour that sustains our relationships. Participants are asked to bring a piece of fabric associated with an unpaid responsibility they have carried. These fabrics are printed upon to mark presence given and assembled into forms inspired by prayer flags. Suspended in space these flags entrust their stories to the wind and offer acts of care to a universal consciousness. Through this collective process private labour is transformed into a shared field of memory and reflection.
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Art Night Thursday
Performance + Artists' Panel
12.03.2026 | 18:00 – 20:00
For this edition of Art Night Thursday, the gallery opens into the evening with a very special performance byRucha Barsatie, titled 'Ritual of Responsibility'(starting at 18:00). Through an understated sequence of whispered language and acts of cleansing, purification and protection, the work marks a transitional threshold from which the show emerged. The evening continues with an intimate poetry reading bySarojini Lewis, followed by an artists’ panel withRazia Barsatie, Rucha Kulkarni, Sarojini Lewis, moderated byDr. Priya Swamy.
The gallery will be open from 16:00–20:00; performance and panel from 18:00–20:00. This is a free event. Please RSVP.
Sarojini Lewis
Sarojini Lewis is a curator, researcher, and artist specialisingin archival photography and book arts with an MFA from Edinburgh University. Her PhD in Visual Studies from JNU examined the indentured labour archive through a feminine contemporary lens.
Dr. Priya Swamy
Dr. Priya Swamy is the Curator of Globalisation and South Asia at the Wereld Museum and holds a PhD in Area Studies from Leiden University. Her research critically engages with the ways South Asian diasporas rearticulate their religious and political beliefs across historical and social contexts.
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Gallery hours
Open gallery hours · Fridays and Saturdays, 13:00–18:00
