100 Hand Drawn Maps of My Country
2008
Video, (7x) 57.2 x 72.6 cm.
Materials: Carbon tracings on paper
Collection: TH Collection, Courtesy Vadehra Art Gallery, With the generous support of Shrutti Garg, Renee Baert, Cuenca Biennale, Alain Colardelle, Centre d'Art Contemporain La Synagogue de Delme, Art Sonje Center and Gwangju Biennale.
These hand drawn maps are part of an ongoing series begun in 2008 in which Gupta asks ordinary people to sketch outlines of their home countries by memory. Gupta created each map by superimposing 100 separate drawings of each country. The project investigates modern notions of the nation-state, national identity, and borders by looking at countries in which boundaries are contested and the history of the land far precedes such ideas.
Shilpa Gupta - 100 Hand drawn maps of my country, India, In: Kadist, 2014
