Text: Marjorie Husain
Photography: Courtesy Marjorie Husain and The Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture.

The unparallel retrospective exhibition of sculptor Shahid Sajjad’s work demonstrated for the many visitors to the show who were perhaps not familiar with much of his work, his breadth as an artist and his unique talent as a sculptor. The exhibition held at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, displayed over one hundred artworks, carved wood, free standing and wall based reliefs, bronze cast pieces of various scales with drawings from the sixties while working in the Chittagong Hill tracts. The work produced over a period of more than five decades, traced the artist’s life and the changes wrought by experience. Here is an artist whose life merges into his sculpture as one entity, he is one alone whose work should be preserved in a national museum for all time to come, but sadly no such place exists.