Parul Gupta

Parul Gupta is interested in architectural spaces as a generator of perceptual experiences, through the way our bodies perform/ move in there and also in an exploration of the geometry in those spaces. Her artworks are in response to these interests primarily through the language of drawing, both site specific and other works on paper, sculptures, installations and photography.

Site Specific work branches out through “Drawing in Space” and “Site Conditioned Installations”, where the site and its structural elements become active participants in the work. The viewer too leads the participatory role to decipher the experiential nature of the work.

Drawing in Space is an ongoing site specific drawing project based on the spatial narrative of the site, focusing on the question of perception through lines and forms in the built environment. It poses itself as drawing as a spatial exploration revolving around the question of “what happens when a line leaves paper and enters space”. The work creates the experience of illusion of lines, forms and geometry. It moves from the dynamics of “looking at” to “moving in”. Every time a new site with its unique spatial narratives and conditions, guides the work both conceptually and body dynamics, resulting in drawing in space as spatial exploration – site specific, temporary, ephemeral installation based on the language of line.

The process of drawing in space revolves around line as the subject, but after entering and working on site, psychology of the space makes in situ a phenomenological act. Working on site raises the question of how a particular place / space informs the way we see. This leads to site conditioned installations which engages with examining the relationship between architectural spaces and structural elements in those spaces, further locating perceptual questions on what happens when a subtle shift is made in the very space which we have been experiencing in a certain way. Does that subtle shift make us question our knowledge and how?

Her other works on paper, sculptures, installations and photography takes on a similar enquiry about the perception of the inhabited world, integrating geometrical forms, light and movement.

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