Sunil Gupta’s From Here to Eternity (1999), which features in his survey at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge opening this month, is suffused with bittersweet poetry. He depicts himself in six photographic diptychs, made in the wake of his HIV positive diagnosis four years earlier. He is often naked or half-naked, in moments of reflection and isolation, sometimes while getting treatment for the virus. These intimate self-portraits are paired with tightly cropped, unpeopled urban locations with closed or half-closed shutters, locked doors and bolted metal gates. These are spaces of nocturnal pleasure—queer clubs and saunas—captured dormant in the daylight.
17 September 2026
