One of the central themes in Shilpa Gupta\u2019s works is the use of fear as a tool to restrict mobility. In other words, the extent to which Power determines social, cultural, and psychological boundaries in public life. The artist reveals the widespread social aporias that include gender and class barriers, religious differences, and repressive state systems. The artist is especially interested in the way information is transmitted and internalized in everyday life. Hence, the importance of seeing, retrieving, and remembering for the artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For, In your tongue, I cannot fit <\/em>is part of a series of eponymous works, of which one was exhibited at the 2019 Venice Biennale. The works are devoted to one hundred poets, across many periods in time and places who, because of their thinking, were persecuted. The work is a wooden bookshelf with lamps that illuminate some books made from the same metal used to manufacture rifles for the Indian army. The work is inspired by Imadaddin Nasimi, an Azerbaijani poet, who wrote between the midfourteenth and the early fifteenth century, and was sentenced to death by the religious authorities for his ideas deemed to be blasphemous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":449,"template":"","categorie_opere":[],"curatela":[33],"class_list":["post-1058","opere","type-opere","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","curatela-clarice-pecori-gilardi"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n