100 Hand drawn maps of my country, India

2014 - Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)

22 x 30 in. / 8.66 x 11.81 cm

Shilpa Gupta

location: Mumbai, India
year born: 1976
gender: female
nationality: Indian
home town: Mumbai, India

These hand drawn maps are part of an ongoing series begun in 2008 in which Gupta asks ordinary people to sketch outlines of their home countries by memory. Gupta created each map by superimposing 100 separate drawings of each country. The project investigates modern notions of the nation-state, national identity, and borders by looking at countries in which boundaries are contested and the history of the land far precedes such ideas.


Mumbai-based Shilpa Gupta’s practice crosses disciplines and media to include interactive videos, websites, objects, photographs, sound, and public performances. Probing and examining themes such as desire, religion, tradition, gender, global capitalism, social injustice, security, borders, and power, Gupta actively engages herself with the political and cultural world around her.


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