Subodh Gupta

Subodh Gupta was born in 1964 in Khagaul, the Indian countryside in Bihar state, and is now based in Delhi. Before his education as a visual artist, Gupta, who is passionate about film, was a street theatre actor. The artist’s change of residence from his native village to a major urban center is... Read more

Subodh Gupta was born in 1964 in Khagaul, the Indian countryside in Bihar state, and is now based in Delhi. Before his education as a visual artist, Gupta, who is passionate about film, was a street theatre actor. The artist’s change of residence from his native village to a major urban center is in a way an allegory of today’s India. The growing middle class that migrated from villages to large cities is eagerly clearing the path for change and the dominance of global capitalist culture. Gupta is interested in what inevitably disappears in the process of such change.

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