I Will Meet You Yet Again: Contemporary Sikh Art

When the Fowler Museum at UCLA hosted a contemporary Sikh art exhibition, it was a significant moment for a community whose artistic traditions have rarely found space in major Western institutions. Sonia Dhami, the exhibition's curator, is the subject of this film: her process, her thinking about Sikh art and its relationship to faith and identity, and what it means to bring that conversation into a museum context rather than a Gurdwara or a community center.

The film treats the work of curation as a form of advocacy and as an artistic act in itself. Sonia's thinking about which artists to include, how to frame their work, and what story the exhibition tells collectively is the film's real subject. It's a portrait of someone navigating the space between community insider and institutional professional, doing the difficult work of making sure that Sikh artists are seen not as a curiosity but as contributors to a living, contemporary art world.