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Born 1976 Mumbai, India. Known for: Videos, website design, photographs, performance art.
Shilpa Gupta does it all. She makes videos, websites, art objects, photographs, sound and public performances, and combines them in daring, unexpected ways. They are high-concept meditations on... Read full biography
Shilpa Gupta does it all. She makes videos, websites, art objects, photographs, sound and public performances, and combines them in daring, unexpected ways. They are high-concept meditations on desire, religion, consumer culture, security and the surveillance society, and on the shifting nature of... Read full biography
Shilpa Gupta does it all. She makes videos, websites, art objects, photographs, sound and public performances, and combines them in daring, unexpected ways. They are high-concept meditations on desire, religion, consumer culture, security and the surveillance society, and on the shifting nature of borders, both imagined and natural—as arbitrary as a colonial border, as immovable as the Hindu Kush. Audience participation is a key component of many of her works. As Deepanjana Pal puts it for The... Read full biography
Shilpa Gupta does it all. She makes videos, websites, art objects, photographs, sound and public performances, and combines them in daring, unexpected ways. They are high-concept meditations on desire, religion, consumer culture, security and the surveillance society, and on the shifting nature of borders, both imagined and natural—as arbitrary as a colonial border, as immovable as the Hindu Kush. Audience participation is a key component of many of her works. As Deepanjana Pal puts it for The Sunday Guardian,"The only thing you're assured of in a Shilpa Gupta show is that it will surprise you and there will be at least one interactive element." . In Shadow 3 (2007), for example, spectators' silhouettes are projected onto a wall, their... Read full biography
Shilpa Gupta does it all. She makes videos, websites, art objects, photographs, sound and public performances, and combines them in daring, unexpected ways. They are high-concept meditations on desire, religion, consumer culture, security and the surveillance society, and on the shifting nature of borders, both imagined and natural—as arbitrary as a colonial border, as immovable as the Hindu Kush. Audience participation is a key component of many of her works. As Deepanjana Pal puts it for The Sunday Guardian,"The only thing you're assured of in a Shilpa Gupta show is that it will surprise you and there will be at least one interactive element." . In Shadow 3 (2007), for example, spectators' silhouettes are projected onto a wall, their shadows threatened by the shadows of falling, accumulating debris. In Speaking Wall (2010), viewers are invited to sSource:. Christie's, Mumbai... Read full biography
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Shilpa Gupta does it all. She makes videos, websites, art objects, photographs, sound and public performances, and combines them in daring, unexpected ways. They are high-concept meditations on desire, religion, consumer culture, security and the surveillance society, and on the shifting nature of borders, both imagined and natural—as arbitrary as a colonial border, as immovable as the Hindu Kush. Audience participation is a key component of many of her works.
As Deepanjana Pal puts it for The Sunday Guardian,"The only thing you're assured of in a Shilpa Gupta show is that it will surprise you and there will be at least one interactive element."
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