Shilpa Gupta. Interview : Rashid Rana and Shilpa Gupta on ‘My East in Your West’, their joint collateral event at Venice Biennale 2015 My East Is Your West, a collateral event of the Venice Biennale to be held in Palazzo Benzon, is a coming together of two contemporary artists – Shilpa Gupta and Rashid Rana – from India and Pakistan respectively. Carbon tracings on paper, 76 x 56 cm (30 x 22 in). Shilpa Gupta: the artist bringing silenced poets back to life. Abroad, you see a diverse group of viewers, of all ages, visit public art institutions, but here in South Asia you really see how it is a small audience. In the mid- and late ’90s, my peers looked at my practice of experimental media, video and installation with discomfort. The Indian Express is now on Telegram. Shilpa Gupta: ‘I am always playing with the idea of the location in the work’ The Mumbai-based artist Shilpa Gupta talks about her practice, notions of identity and nation states, and how she prefers her work to be called ‘everyday art’ rather than terming it political. Shilpa Gupta doesn’t like to speak about her art. Shilpa Gupta. There was something about, not just the language, but the act, the method of talking, the dialect of speaking – there was just an overlap somewhere. 1:08. “Art making,” she tells me over email, “is so driven by the unconscious and, even though I use text, I find it hard to explain it all.” And it̵ The process of making a flap board is like going on a long inward walk, gathering clouds – to be found in the form of scribbles in book margins, typed in a notepad file, or resolved and unresolved experiences one seeks answers for – slowly weaving them together and blowing them to let them float away. Photograph: Shrutti Garg, courtesy of the artist. I spoke with the … There is still space for other languages, and art is one of them. But does everything have to have a utility? It is expanding now, but we have such a long way to go, and we all need to work for it. I have a scar on my back that I have made work about before. SG: I’m interested in the fact that the viewer can step, very momentarily, into this complicated space and then move on from there. It is, of course, more interesting when you are able to listen to many voices and forms. Fifteen years ago, it was made against the background of religious polarisation. Maybe it’s just another scar, I kept saying. Shilpa Gupta, Someone Else – A library of 100 books written anonymously or under pseudonyms, 2011. Gupta creates artwork using interactive video, websites, objects, photographs, sound and public performances to probe and examine subversively such themes as desire, religion, notions of security on the street and on the imagined border. Shilpa’s clarification comes in the form of a long note that reads, “I am not following #Bigboss14 and have not given any interview regarding any … Exclusive Interview of Shilpa Shinde by Neeki Singh | TV | SpotboyE. Five skincare trends set to take 2021 by storm, Interview: Signal COO on why 'privacy is not a passing trend', Virat Kohli's midnight call that led to 'Mission Melbourne', Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra review: The best gets better, Alphabet shuts Project Loon to beam internet from high-altitude balloons, As dragon fruit becomes 'Kamalam', netizens revise these popular phrases, Biden reverses another Trump legacy, unblocks Chrissy Teigen on @POTUS Twitter handle, 'Why was Gabbar punished?' Shilpa Gupta. For More Such News & Gossips Subscribe now! But for this show, Carl Ganem [a young collector] curated the exhibition by picking from the gallery’s collection. So you enter the space with these boxes and each box had a tag on it: “This object has been blessed by so-and-so such that it will bring peace and happiness where it stands crocheted by …” and their location. There is so much we experience as human beings, and not all of it can be expressed through verbal language. There were artists across age groups, and artists across geography – you had a Carl Andre next to a Jenny Holzer or a Douglas Gordon, and about 10 or 15 artists from the gallery – and they were all speaking to each other, and speaking in the same language. The artist bringing silenced poets back to life Andrew Dickson, The Guardian, 25 Jul 2018. But I wonder how this works in reverse – say, with your work around the border maps of the nation state. These map lines have become so hard – and they have not always been that way: since they were first drawn, they have been porous and things have spilled outwards or inwards. Bigg Boss 11 winner Shilpa Shinde and her nasty fights with Vikas Gupta are still remembered by all. Maybe we are trying to look for authenticity but we already know that it is a memory that is punctured. The 35-minute piece looks at the idea of contagion, infiltration and seepage, which is especially impossible to contain, in the age of hypermedia. 100 hand-drawn maps of my country, 2008–ongoing. | Shilpa Shinde … Shilpa Gupta explores concepts like nationhood, identity, religion and the human condition. Now, in an exclusive interview with Pinkvilla, Shilpa opened up about her name being brought up on the current season by Vikas. Recent Works of Shilpa Gupta, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris Ami Barak, Take On Art Magazine, Review, International Reviews, Vol 1, Issue 01, Pg 142, New Delhi, January-March 2010. Another example would be an outdoor light installation which is currently being shown on Lake Zurich. What is this? Looking back, these objects seem to have unconsciously become repositories of thoughts and inquiries of that period. Text is a kind of sign which we beam to each other, and, therefore, it enters my toolbox as a form. SPOTBOYE. Even after the show got over, they kept on giving statements about one another. Sie untersucht Wahrnehmungsprozesse und die Übermittlung von Informationen. Listening and reading helps decode the complexities of human feelings. “I am watching Bigg Boss 14. SG: In 2010, I was in a show at Yvon Lambert Gallery in Paris, Wish List of a Young Collector, and at the same time there were a lot of these big “India” shows going around. Is art continuous with life for you? 28/06/2020. In a deeply personal interview, she admits to a feeling of surprise when anyone says they are moved by her works In an exclusive interview with Lehren shilpa shinde finally opens up about her relationship with vikas gupta. Of course, here, the question of the public is so complicated. In 2013, when it was shown on the streets in my neighbourhood, some onlookers even drew associations with the 2012 Delhi gang-rape case, very much on people’s mind then. SG: I think there is always another life to the work, and it can exist outside the white cube as much as it does inside it. They both fought the whole season and even irritated everyone with their fights. With the project Aar Paar (2002), a public art project between India and Pakistan, we just exchanged images and put them out on the streets. How do you feel this dialogue has evolved since, given the recent trend towards showing and making “political work”, which often results in a superficial engagement with any real politics. In an interview with Pinkvilla, she said, "I am not watching Bigg Boss 14. Shilpa Gupta: BlindStars StarsBlind / BodhiBerlin / Interview with Shilpa Gupta and Shaheen Merali. SG: These works first began with the 100 Hand-drawn Maps series (2007-), which is still ongoing, where I invite participants to draw maps from memory. And it’s about inhabiting a space that is actually a shared space, and sort of collapsing the space between you and me – so that we are able to think together. And maybe the “I” opens up that possibility. And it is primarily a question of identity, and with India, this has developed only in the past 60 or 70 years … Ideas of the nation state only emerged in the 19th century, so this is a new identity. By Enrico on 20. The flap board engages with the idea of distance – socially, economically or geographically – which has been perpetuated, and, on the other hand, the distance we’ve been advised to keep with our hands and face, which is impossible to maintain. Shilpa Gupta: In the 90s, the nature of the work I was doing was different from that of my peers, and, while there was a curiosity about it, there was also a tension – the work is like this. It has lodged itself in the infinite waiting period, the pauses, the anxieties – otherwise invisible – between the finite space of numbers and destinations. Click here to join our channel (@indianexpress) and stay updated with the latest headlines. SAT: This is certainly a work that resisted the white cube, I think. Then there are those who would like the art object to have a direct consequence – and one often hears the same story, why art, why not direct action? The fact is that it is very hard to group people together and, often enough, grouping work together just because of location doesn’t work. Within the framework of the official collateral programme of events at this year’s Venice Biennale, Rashid Rana and Shilpa Gupta are bringing … Do artworks keep evolving, acquiring new meanings, even after leaving the artist’s studio? By Yin Ho. Today, several places are grappling with a right-wing majoritarianism, resulting in strong feedback for the sound installation For, in your tongue, I cannot fit: 100 jailed poets (2017-18) based on 100 poets who’ve been incarcerated. Internationally acclaimed artists Rashid Rana and Shilpa Gupta talk about their collaboration at the 56th Venice Biennale. Are we trying to look for the real thing? SAT: It is interesting that you mention the aspirational nature of the nation state boundary, as there does seem to be an “I” implicit in the work – and in a lot of your other work, too. Many people asked whether the shape of the scar represented a map of Kashmir, but it was not intended to be the map of Kashmir. Interview. Gupta very often insists visitors also take work away from the gallery space itself: small crocheted boxes, or even, large soap bricks on which are embossed the word: THREAT (Threat, 2008-9). In an interview with Pinkvilla, Shilpa clarified that she is not watching Bigg Boss 14 and doesn't want to talk about Vikas Gupta. She established the Jindal Arts Centre in 1992 at the National Centre for Performing Art in Mumbai, and is the President of Art India magazine, a leading contemporary art magazine. Gupta, talking about her ideas that steer her journey towards the realisation of artworks, in an interview with STIR, says, “Between the beginning, which could be a drawing, a scribble in a book margin, a note or even a conversation, the in-between process is constantly changing and rarely even the final format is fully known. SAT: Maybe it is a question of narrative, and works from the same location have a better potential for a narrative to tie them together? AR In an interview you said you didn’t want to be called a political artist but an artist of the everyday. The title Studio International is the property of the Studio International Foundation and, together with the content, are bound by copyright. In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Shilpa Gupta, MD, discussed the results of the BLASST-1 trial evaluating neoadjuvant nivolumab plus gemcitabine and cisplatin in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer undergoing a cystectomy. Earthy Transitions: India Art Fair 2014 On a white sheet of paper, the national borders defining India are made visible through the multiple outlines rendered in colour blue. The word political makes me feel uncomfortable – it seems to distance what one does from the everyday, which is where my work stems from. I suppose, the open-ended and interactive form of the works allows for such wide-ranging readings. Your 2008–09 work, Threat, is on show at Copenhagen Contemporary. Subscribe Here https://lnkd.in/eFnXZzM for more updates.. #Interview #SaturdayStardom #sujayguptalive #searchglassfilms #Knovalt #Celebrity #CelebrityInterview #latenightshow #ChatShow #LiveShow #zoominterview Shilpa Gupta: ‘The current moment shows we are closer than we imagined’ The Mumbai-based artist on displaying her work in a German railway station and what space means in a time of social distancing. What is it with the art object, and can it align itself to ideas that are larger and more distant than those on which it has a direct influence? I was offered an amount for travel, but, instead, I used the money for making the work, and had 1,500 boxes crocheted by different women. She highlighted the next steps and key points community oncologists need to know about these data now. Reza Abdoh. Now, Shilpa Shinde has reacted to Vikas Gupta dragging her name in Bigg Boss 14. Therefore, the idea of distance – physical, geographical, or imaginary – often appears in my works. It looks at the idea of the nation state as being, well, what we would like to imagine the nation state to be. Later, both of them tried to mend ways, but that did not work. Untitled, MS Gate which swings side to side and breaks the walls, 2009. Instead, there are 300. But then India has been no different from our neighbour China, and we, too, have seen the rise of a political pop. Now this gate, or the object, it could be the map of a place, but it could be even be a hole in the brain of a housewife in my neighbourhood, or those who aspire to move outwards and away from a boundary, or that enable a way of seeing. An interview with the installation artist Slipa Gupta. I think when we are looking at an art object, we look for meaning, experience or some kind of resolve. I prefer “everyday” art. SG: I mean if you could just divert this entire conversation, and look at the craft object, there it really changes. It begs the question of whether authenticity is even relevant when it is performed for a global gaze, particularly with what happens to identity politics or conversations around labour and migration. Shilpa Gupta is essentially a new media artist. Does it look like it is art? It is interesting to look at the period between 1997 and 2006 and see how art practices shifted when the world’s gaze came in. What I’m interested in are those ways of seeing, and the ways in which they inform how we imagine ourselves. Gupta is aware of this, and is keen to question which voices are heard louder than others, and who determines the validity of certain political arguments. Perhaps you could speak about what you meant by “dispersal” when you were talking earlier about visitors taking away the crocheted boxes. Her work is resolutely political, and perhaps has always been since she first began 20 years ago. Courtesy the artist; photograph: Anil Rane. Shilpa Gupta doesn’t like to speak about her art. But also working on the idea: is this craft, this crocheting, also art? So I am always playing with the idea of the location in the work. Interviews; Künstler & Kunstlexikon; Wir über uns; Newsletter; Kontakt. How do you ‘engage with the idea of distance’ in WEARECLOSERTHANYOUEVERIMAGINED, on view at the main railway station in Chemnitz, Germany? Shilpa Gupta: BlindStars StarsBlind / BodhiBerlin / Interview with Shilpa Gupta and Shaheen Merali. All rights reserved. The actress, however, chose to pay no heed to Gupta. UP Police gives Covid-19 twist to Sholay scene, Jio now offering 1GB data for Rs 11: Here’s what Airtel, Vi and BSNL are offering, Madam Chief Minister movie review: Richa Chadha’s film is strictly passable, Islamic State claims responsibility for deadly twin blasts in Baghdad, IISc researchers develop software platform for tracking missing persons, objects, WandaVision is a game changer for MCU. By Enrico on 20. I was showing a work in the Lyon Biennale in 2009, Untitled, which is a gate that moves from left to right and breaks into a wall with its movement. SG Yes, and I like to avoid categories. Blame, 2002–04. Gupta says: “There are works of mine that sit in the white cube, or which float in the white cube, or those that slip out of the white cube entirely.” And it is a useful descriptor of her practice – there is always room for the political to falter. ... Shilpa Gupta is largely regarded as an iconoclast of installation art. Of course, she gives the occasional interview, but not without struggle. the Studio International Foundation, PO Box 1545, Studio. Since its inception, the India Art Fair has become a Mecca for Indian artists, curators, collectors, dealers and consultants, who come from all over the country and from elsewhere. I’d made the work after spending time in Srinagar. What happens when we need to be legitimised by international institutions? We can’t help touch ourselves. Then, a year later, I showed it in my own city (Mumbai). Do you think it’s blessed when you bring it into your home? This current moment reminds us that our bodies are vulnerable to the invisible virus, and that we are closer than we ever imagined. SAT: I’m glad that you brought that up. Locations can, indeed, have different reactions and so does time. Maybe what you’re asking is what happens when a privileging takes place. Currently, as it sits on a street in Copenhagen, inhabiting a shipping container, it opens up conversations around anxiety owing to migration into Europe on the one hand, and a double take, on the other, with the current situation where we’ve become suspicious of almost everyone. Studio International is published by: “Don’t Let Them Enter Your Skin, To Know Where You Go, What You Do…” looks at how we are increasingly surrendering our lives to data systems and the risks this entails. And I was just amazed at how my work sat so seamlessly in the space. Artist Shilpa Gupta, 39, and Pakistani artist Rashid Rana showcased at the Venice Biennale last year. 7:25 . There was an outline shape embedded into the structure of the gate that was thicker than the rest of it, so each time the gate hit the wall, it made a scar, and over the time, the scar deepened. Sangita Jindal is an avid collector with a long history of supporting cultural heritage and the arts. Of course, she gives the occasional interview, but not without struggle. Her work has been showcased everywhere from New Delhi to New York, from Tokyo to Tel Aviv, from art galleries in Austria to taxis in Toronto. Within the framework of the official collateral programme of events at this year’s Venice Biennale, Rashid Rana and Shilpa Gupta are bringing Pakistan and India together on the international art stage, opening up a dialogue on the notion of borders and nationhood. Shilpa Shinde and Vikas Gupta’s massive fight is not known to all. 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