YARAT CONTEMPORARY ART CENTRE, BAKU
Shilpa Gupta
7/6–10/7
In Shilpa Gupta’s conceptually driven practice, she addresses the social forces that police our private thoughts, and enforce structures of power. For her solo exhibition of new drawings, sculptures and assemblages at Baku’s Yarat Contemporary Art Centre, she reflects on the role of the poet as a voice of political and social dissent. The multi-channel sound installation For, In Your Tongue I Cannot Fit – 100 Jailed Poets (2017–18), for example, is comprised of 100 microphones, each playing a different spoken-verse track drawn from the writings of imprisoned poets. Additionally, a new sculpture, depicting three identical individuals concealing each other’s eyes, ears and mouth, will revisit the Japanese maxim “See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil,” considering the mechanisms of…
