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Shilpa Gupta

Untitled (Spoken Poem in a Bottle), 2018

Untitled (Spoken Poem in a Bottle)

SHILPA GUPTA
Mumbai, India, 1976
Director of Fundación Botín Art Workshop in 2024

Untitled (Spoken Poem in a Bottle), 2018–ongoing
Bottles, display cases, lightbulbs
Acquired in 2024

A domestic display case presents a series of bottles whose labels bear verses by poets who have been censored or imprisoned. Inside each bottle is the breath of those same verses, whispered by the artist.

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Shilpa Gupta

Mumbai, 1976

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