Sarmistha Bose ~ Yes, Perhaps, and Afterthoughts

Sarmistha Bose's Yes, Perhaps, and Afterthoughts was presented to a live audience at Centrale Fies (Dro, Italy) on June 18, 2026 as one of 41 acts curated by Elisa Giuliano for the AEROPONIC ACTS 2026: DAWN SEEDS, convened by Gabriëlle Schleijpen for the Dutch Art Institute.

Here you find an introduction by the presenter, video-documentation filmed by Baha Görkem Yalım and a written report by Saverio Cantoni. The report includes a summary of the spoken, improvised comments by esteemed guest respondents Adam Hajyahia, Antonia Majaca, and Zairong Xiang.

Yes, Perhaps, and Afterthoughts

Sarmistha‘s question: “Can we publish an erased voice?”

Sarmistha‘s intro:

“it never begins in silence.

it begins with a scream.
it is born ugly and unloveable.
it remains fragile and vulnerable, carrying on the burden
of useless laughter and daydreams.

writing from shaky grounds,
it trembles.
it aches and screams, in desperate rage and fear, too, sometimes
still,
clumsy,
stubborn as ever
keeps holding on
to truth.
for love is a little too precious to give up on. and so it fractures,
and falters,
and fragments at the face of rupture until
it scatters in a million pieces.

it ends in silence.

for us,
can we pick up the shards?”