Shilpa Gupta b. 1976
Untitled (from the Don't See, don't Hear, don't Speak series), 2009 - ongoing
Digital Print on Archival Paper
Each:
16.5 x 22 in
56 x 42 cm
16.5 x 22 in
56 x 42 cm
Edition of 6
Copyright The Artist
In this ongoing series of photographs of performances staged in public spaces, the figures are seen interrupting each other’s senses - to see, listen and speak. Based on the Japanese...
In this ongoing series of photographs of performances staged in public spaces, the figures are seen interrupting each other’s senses - to see, listen and speak. Based on the Japanese proverb made popular by Mahatma Gandhi, the work is rooted in the context of a landscape where borders of orchestrated oppression and loss of agency that are harder to detect. The viewer is invited to zoom in, walk closer and enter into an intimate dialogue with the works, which intentionally stay blurred, reminding us of aberrations that surround us, optical and otherwise.