Shilpa Gupta: What Still Holds

Look for

• Truth (2022–25)

  Look for the concrete letters T-R-U-T-H, separated and out of order with the T lying flat; walk between them and the word only reads from some positions.

• StillTheyKnowNotWhatIDream (2021)

  Two mechanical split-flap boards like old station departure boards, flipping through phrases such as "When we speak no one listens" in a 34-minute cycle.

• Someone Else: A Library of 100 Books

  100 metal book covers for real books published anonymously or under pseudonyms, each engraved with the author's reason: political safety, hiding their gender, protecting a reputation.

• Untitled (Nothing Will Go on Record)

  Tables engraved with scenes of police arrests at protests, the detained person cut out; trace one onto paper with the crayons provided and take the print.

• Listening Air (2019/23)

  A dark room where suspended microphones, working as speakers, drift slowly through the air with songs of resistance, starting from Hum Dekhenge, sung at India's 2019 student protests.

Good for

• Evening Visits
• Going Solo

Skip if

You want paintings: this is sculpture, sound and text installations about censorship and borders.