Mumbai-based artists Shilpa Gupta and Biraaj Dodiya employ practices rooted in conceptualism and abstraction respectively to acknowledge absent narratives in the mainstream cultural imagination, while actively engaging with the integrity and deconstruction of structures and material. Their explorations are centered around understanding the varied forces that establish the world-at-large and unfold within them. By looking at individualism as a language of existence – or what is – and possibility – or what could be – they discover expressions of alternative realities. Living in a post-truth era, where narratives of identity are charged by a spectrum or flux as opposed to rigid definitions, perceptions of individual and collective events are enhanced by their repressed aspects, including their fears, faults and fractures.
