100 Hand Drawn Maps of My Country, 2008
Video, (7x) 57.2 x 72.6 cm.
image: © Pat Verbruggen, TH Collection, Courtesy Vadehra Art Gallery
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
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> SHILPA GUPTA.
Shilpa Gupta creates artworks that examine the place of subjectivity and human perception in relation to themes of desire, conflict, security, technology and
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> Exhibition: SHILPA GUPTA – Today Will End. , 21 May 2021 - 12 September 2021.