Dipali Gupta
Desire Lines and Pages from the Book Of Spring – An artist statement
Video / 5:15 mins
ABOUT THE WORK
Changing times requires us to regenerate new ways of presenting artists’ work. This video is an attempt to create an artist statement in moving image format considering the virtual-ity of everything that the pandemic has brought upon human existence. With the cancellation of physical exhibitions and art shows, I felt the need to reconsider the medium of my artist statements. Usually presented as text and image for the purpose of reading, this statement exposes my art practice by way of visuals and voice. I shot this video on my iPhone and recorded the voice in an enclosed toilet space. Apart from the final artwork, the visuals reveal a small art studio in the confines of my home, my creative process and also my conceptual orientation which would have otherwise gone unnoticed in a written statement. This video was showcased at the Academia Nacional de Belas-Artes, Lisbon, Portugal for the virtual exhibition 5MD in June 2020 and Drawing Us at the Bakehouse Art Complex in Miami, Florida.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Dipali Gupta’s art practice explores perceptions of the feminine and the body by engaging the materiality of devices associated with sex, desire and pleasure. Layering concepts with artistic canons and re-appropriating less significant genres, Dipali’s work comments on artistic practices that were historically male-dominated. Her multidisciplinary approach reconstructs the past to defy socio-political myths of reproduction, domestication, spectatorship, self and identity. Dipali Gupta lives and works between Malaysia and Singapore and her work has been showcased in Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, with collaborations and symposiums in Lisbon, Miami, London and New Delhi. She won the prestigious Chan Davies Art Prize in 2018 and was nominated for the Young Master’s Art Prize 2019 in London.