Shilpa Gupta
September 22, 2011
Born in Mumbay, 1976. Lives and works in Mumbay.
These lines, for me, sound like a letter from the war front. A lovelorn soldier sits in one of the trenches and writes down these lines. He is fighting a war for someone. Now these lines are pasted in the form of a flag. This yellow flag is nobody’s flag. Come closer and know me, it invites. The closer you get, the better you read the ants like formations on the yellow stripes. This work of Shilpa Gupta is simple and direct. Flags that should have been heralding freedom, now limits it. In its inscribed nationality, ideology, caste, creed, race, a flag becomes a limiting thing; it embodies the ‘border’.
