Shilpa Gupta

Shilpa GuptaThis Horizon Inside of Us (This horizon in us) Animated work in Led 975 x 487 cm © Shilpa Gupta / Galerie Continua – Production City of Nice – Biennale des Arts et de l'Océan de Nice, 2025 « La mer autour de nous » – Photo : Jean-Chistophe Lett

Gupta’s work questions the cultural, individual and collective identity, and how they are shaped by social status, gender, systems of authority and beliefs.

Fascinated by technology, it invests them with a sensitive dimension. Here the sentences appear as a heartbeat in the succession of their illuminations and intermingled effacements.
It often involves several languages, perspectives in its works. It offers an open reading to the subjectivity of the viewer and the context in which they are shown.

"This horizon in us" is here on the Urdu sky (practiced in North India and Pakistan), English and Hindi. About the work, the artist writes: “The work refers to the physical site and the horizon (...) on which it relies as a reminder of the history of the oceans that celebrates the movement of people and the inevitable mutation and dispersion when two beings or cultures come into contact with each other"

Faced with the sea, the cradle of civilizations, exchanges and multiculturalism, it invites us to think of alliedness empathically.

In particular, she participated in the Venice, Berlin, Kochi, Lyon, Gwangju, Havana, Yokohama, Liverpool and exhibited in the world's largest museums.