person:shilpa gupta

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.

#frontières #frontière_contestée #inde #pakistan #art #installation_artistique

The imperfect art of cartography - The Hindu

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Ten artists interpret emotions, geographies and their concerns through maps of a cerebral kind

A multi-artist exhibit at Sakshi Gallery aims to make cartographers of artists and navigators of their audience, a collaboration that curator Meera Menezes hopes will evolve into new ideas and explorations from artists and viewers. Revolving around the premise of cartography as a knowledge system and an often-used device in an artists’ repertoire, Here be Dragons and other coded landscapes features work by Anju Dodiya, Mithu Sen, Arpita Singh, Nilima and Gulammohammed Sheikh, Shilpa Gupta, Marie Velardi, Varunika Saraf, Zarina Hashmi and Raj Jariwala.

#cartographie #art #sémiologie #imperfection