#6 Sunday Shade (Sunil Gupta's sound art, Sugimoto's time machine, Brixton murals and María Magdalena Campos-Pons at the Brooklyn Museum)
The art I loved this week
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Shilpa Gupta I did not tell you what I saw, but only what I dreamt Amant, New York Until Apr 28 ‘24 (we can always enjoy works from afar!)
Mumbai-based artist Shilpa Gupta is showing new commissions, past works and a series of educational projects, focusing on the “reverse” of discourse, the absence of language, or what cannot be said. Gupta suggests that this reversal “can take place in an authoritative mode of history writing and censorship, or simply even in how our actions are largely controlled by the unconscious”.
I found Gupta’s proposition important in light of current events and this week I took the time to engage with her sound works. In Singing Cloud (2008-2009) the artist calls us to witness the power of the disembodied voice as the presence of all that is occluded. She asks: Is this the last and final call for democracy? It is an ode to voices which move, persist, protest and refuse to sleep.
Listen to a short clip below or on Gupta’s instagram.
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