Shilpa Gupta b. 1976
I will die, 2012
Print on mirror, embroidered curtain on metal rod
52 1/2 x 37 1/4 x 2 inches
133.3 x 94.6 x 5.1 cm
133.3 x 94.6 x 5.1 cm
In Shilpa Gupta’s interactive installation, viewers are greeted with two red drawn curtains embroidered with the words, “I” and “will'. As they lift the curtains to complete the sentence, “I...
In Shilpa Gupta’s interactive installation, viewers are greeted with two red drawn curtains embroidered with the words, “I” and “will". As they lift the curtains to complete the sentence, “I will die”, printed upon a mirror, reminds them of the inevitability of death. Depicted in Medieval Art in the seventeenth century through symbols of skulls, hour glasses, clocks, or extinguished candles, the phrase “Momento Mori” (in Latin reading “remember that you die”), considers the mortality and fragility of human life, a theme Gupta explores in ‘I will die’ (2012).
Exhibitions
2019 | ‘Who Writes? A Monologic Verb’, OMR gallery, Mexico City. Curated by Jo Ying Peng2014 | ‘Aesthetic Blind: Cabinet Closet Wunderkammer’, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, Curated by Geeta Kapur
2012 | ‘Notes’, Solo Show,’, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv