'Come Eat With Us?' is a group exhibition at SAC Art Amsterdam that uses the act of sharing a meal as a framework to explore identity, belonging, memory and resilience. Featuring works by Deepak Dhiman, Reem Masri, Saviya Lopes and Yogesh Barve, the show brings together diverse artistic practices that examine gender, queerness, transformation and displacement.
Across cultures, the invitation of a meal becomes an act of hospitality, a gesture of trust, and often an opening into histories, relationships and ways of being. At SAC Art Amsterdam's latest group exhibition, 'Come Eat With Us?', this invitation becomes the conceptual framework through which four artists explore questions of identity, belonging, resilience and collective memory.
Running from June 5 to July 5, 2026, the exhibition marks both SAC Art Amsterdam's tenth show and nearly two years of programming. Created in collaboration with Mumbai-based Art and Charlie, the exhibition brings together artists Deepak Dhiman, Reem Masri, Saviya Lopes and Yogesh Barve, whose practices span painting, sculpture and conceptual explorations of the self. While their visual languages differ dramatically, the exhibition positions their works around a shared table, inviting audiences to engage with each piece as part of a larger conversation.
Eating, after all, is one of humanity's most universal acts. Yet meals have always functioned as spaces where identities are negotiated, relationships are formed and social structures are reinforced or challenged. The exhibition treats food not as a literal subject.
In Saviya Lopes' paintings, women occupy the canvas with a striking sense of presence. Rather than existing as passive subjects, her figures become carriers of layered narratives that speak to resilience, intimacy and agency. Their stories emerge not solely through struggle but through the complexity of everyday existence, creating portraits that feel simultaneously personal and collective.
Deepak Dhiman's work shifts the conversation towards queer identity through an intimate protagonist navigating internal and external pressures. His practice creates moments of leisure, tenderness and playfulness and it resists reducing queerness to conflict alone, foregrounding joy and selfhood as meaningful forms of expression.
Meanwhile, Yogesh Barve's sculptural beings seem suspended between states of becoming. Refusing fixed identities or stable forms, his amorphous figures embody adaptation and transformation.
While Reem Masri and the original artwork remain in the West Bank, the exhibition presents a printed version of her work, a reality shaped by the ongoing crisis in the region. Rooted in the landscape of Palestine, Masri's tree becomes a powerful symbol of continuity, memory and resistance, carrying within it histories that persist despite displacement and rupture.
The exhibition also reflects SAC Art Amsterdam's growing role as a bridge between artistic communities across geographies. Since its inception, the gallery has positioned itself as a space for experimentation, dialogue and cross-cultural exchange, often spotlighting emerging and mid-career artists whose practices engage with urgent social, political and personal questions. Come Eat With Us? continues that commitment, bringing contemporary South Asian voices into conversation with audiences in Europe and beyond. By collaborating with Mumbai-based Art and Charlie, SAC Art extends its vision of art almost as a meeting ground.
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