Crossing the line - Livemint
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Indian artist Shilpa Gupta’s exhibition during the 2015 Venice Biennale wasn’t spectacular just because of its location at the Palazzo Benzon, which hangs over the Grand Canal. Through the duration of the six-month art event, Gupta had stationed an artist to trace maps on more than 3,394m—representing the under-construction wire-fence border between India and Bangladesh—of cloth handwoven by the people of Phulia in West Bengal. Her performative installation, 998.9 (2015), intended to draw the attention of global audiences to this little-known area of border friction.
Gupta has always believed in art as a place for dialogue. The 41-year-old artist has devoted her art practice to the issues of borders and surveillance, her interest going beyond cartography to cover the other kinds of lines we draw around ourselves as people and as a society: security, privacy, racism, to name a few.
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