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Shilpa Gupta: Sun at Night, Hardback Book

Shilpa Gupta: Sun at Night Hardback

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For its 34th Curve commission (2021), the Barbican presents the first major London solo exhibition by Mumbai-based artist Shilpa Gupta, whose celebrated practice explores physical and ideological boundaries and how, as individuals, we come to feel a sense of isolation or belonging. Gupta presents and builds on her acclaimed project For, In Your Tongue, I Cannot Fit (2017-18), an experiential sound installation of 100 microphones suspended above 100 metal spikes, each piercing a page inscribed with a fragmented verse of poetry by a writer who has been imprisoned for their work, writings or beliefs.

Spanning the eighth to the 21st centuries, the soundscape alternates between languages, each microphone uttering verses of poetry, echoed by its 99 counterparts.

Giving a voice to those who have been silenced, Gupta's haunting installation highlights the fragility of personal expression while raising urgent questions of censorship and resistance.

Gupta also presents new drawings and sculptures that reflect on issues of confinement and the right to free expression.

The book includes a loose-insert postcard featuring a poem in Urdu and English by the revolutionary Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz.

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