Ishara Art Foundation presents Lines of Flight by Shilpa Gupta. It marks Shilpa’s first solo exhibition in West Asia. Featuring a diverse selection of artworks from 2006 to the present that include a new sound installation, site-specific interventions, sculptures, drawings, prints and videos, the exhibition foregrounds Shilpa’s long standing critical engagement with narratives of mobility, control and acts of resilience. Over the last two and a half decades, Shilpa’s interdisciplinary art practice has challenged how individual and collective identities are perceived, governed and orchestrated by the state and societal forces. Her work question show people, places, everyday objects and languages get recast through nationality, gender and economic relations. By focusing on moments of unrest, Shilpa’s work encourages viewers to participate in imagining a new poetics of resistance.
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