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Experimenter presents If the Seas Catch Fire, Sakshi Gupta’s debut solo at Experimenter Colaba and her first solo in Mumbai. Gupta’s practice centres the disconnect one experiences with oneself and the turmoil this creates, bringing to the fore the constant drone of an acute background suffering.
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One notices a pattern of waves of certainty and passion crashing onto the shore of assuredness and receding back into nothingness.
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Sakshi Gupta (b. 1979) received her Master's in Fine Arts (Sculpture) from College of Art, New Delhi in 2004. Gupta's select solo exhibitions include 'I Marvel at Your Forgetfulness', Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna (2017); 'At the Still Point of the Turning World,' GALLERYSKE, New Delhi (2015); Recent Works, Tilton Gallery, New York (2013); Selected group shows include 'Visions from India', Columbus (2017); 'In the Depths of Our Crater Lake, All is Silent', Beirut (2015); 'Passage to India,' Staatliches Museum Schwerin, Schwerin (2015); 'Shadow Lines,' Biennale Jogja XI, Jogja, (2011); 'Homespun,' Devi Art Foundation, Delhi (2011) and 'Paris-Delhi-Bombay,' Centre Pompidou, Paris (2011). Gupta’s immersive installation for British Council’s new HQ in London was commissioned after her virtual residency (2020). She was the recipient of the Visiting Artist Fellowship, Harvard University (2019), the Illy Sustain Award (2011), the Civitella Ranieri Fellowship (2011/2012) and the Inlaks International Scholarship (2007). Gupta lives and works in Mumbai, India.
Sakshi Gupta | If The Seas Catch Fire
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