For, In Your Tongue, I Cannot Fit
2017-2018
Installation, Variable dimensions.
Materials: Sound installation, 100 speakers, microphones, printed tekst, metal stands
Collection: Kiran Nadar Museum of Art.
100 microphones are suspended from the ceiling and reverse-wired to function as speakers. From each of it, recitals of a different poet’s verse emanate in a synchronised chorus. Below each microphone the corresponding verse is spiked on a stand. All of the writers who are represented, some living decades or decades ago, were imprisoned for their poetry or politics. The title is inspired by the work of 14th-century Azerbaijani poet Imadaddin Nasimi.
Shilpa Gupta - For, in your tongue, I cannot fit. 2017-2018, In: 58th Venice Biennale 2019, 2019
With the kind support of: Edinburgh Art Festival, Yarat Contemporary Art Space along with PEN International
