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.
© 2022 Parul Gupta.
Born in New Delhi, India
Lives and works in Delhi NCR, India
MA Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University, England, 2011
B.Com, Delhi University, India, 2000
Still, on the verge, Nature Morte Gallery, Delhi, India
Space ; Underscore, Red Studio, Mumbai, India
Let’s Proceed in Parts, Institute Cervantes, New Delhi, India
Phenomenology of Perception, Exhibit320 Gallery, Delhi, India
Space Phrases, Lakeeren Gallery, Mumbai, India
Drawing the Line, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India
Lines (By) Lines, Dhoomimal Gallery, Delhi, India
Curated by Manmeet K Walia
Ufuq: Tribute to Zarina, Kamalnayan Bajaj Gallery, Mumbai, India
Curated by Dr. Arshiya Lokhandwala
Vaica, Online Video Festival, www.vaica.org
Curated by Bharti Kapadia, Anuj Daga and Chandita Mukherjee
Hub India, Artissima Fair, Turin, Italy
Presented by Nature Morte Gallery
Viewing Room, Frieze LA, Online
Presented by Nature Morte Gallery
Delhi Contemporary Art Week, Bikaner House, Delhi, India
Presented by Nature Morte Gallery
Spatial Dialogues, Shrine Empire Gallery, Delhi, India
Collaborative Project with Ar. Madhav Raman
All Is Not Lost – 20:20:20, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India
Curated by Saloni Doshi
In Touch, Digital Collaboration, www.artintouch.in
Presented by Shrine Empire Gallery
Making Space, Space118 + Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India
Curated by Saloni Doshi
Delhi Contemporary Art Week, Visual Arts Gallery, Delhi, India
Presented by Shrine Empire Gallery
Shadow Lines, Shrine Empire Gallery, Delhi, India
Curated by Meera Menezes
Distilled Blueprints, Spacestudio, Baroda, India
Curated by Veerangana Solanki
Delhi Contemporary Art Week, Visual Arts Gallery, Delhi, India
Presented by Exhibit320 Gallery
India art Fair, Delhi, India
Presented by Exhibit320 Gallery
When is Space?, Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur, India
Curated by Prasad Shetty & Rupali Gupte
Delhi Contemporary Art Week, Delhi, India
Presented by Exhibit320 Gallery
Project with Hemant SK, India Art Fair 2017, Delhi, India
Presented by Exhibit320 Gallery
Abstract chronicles, Gallery OED, Kochi, India
Curated by Girish Shahane
Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE
Presented by Lakeeren Gallery
India art Fair, Delhi, India
Presented by Exhibit320 Gallery
India Art Fair, Delhi, India
Presented by Lakeeren Gallery
Grounded, Garden of Five Senses, Delhi, India
Curated by Kanika Anand
Deep (Skin) Skin Deep, Art Chennai, Chennai, India
Curated by Mayank Mansingh Kaul
Peers Share, Khoj International Artist Association, Delhi, India
August Exhibition, Project Jan-Path, New Delhi, India
Curated by Reha Sodhi
Lateral, Kona Alternative Space, Delhi, India
Curated by Heidi Fitchner
Sarai Reader 09, Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, India
Curated by Raqs Media Collective
Viewer Gallery, London, England
MA Degree Show, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, England
Residencies / Projects
Artist Residency, Lulea, Sweden
Gallery Syster, Funded by IASPIS
Artist Residency, Goa, India
Invited by Khoj International Artist Association
Project Artist Process, 1after320 space, New Delhi, India
Invited by Exhibit320 gallery and Meenakshi Thirukode
Studio Residency, Space 118, Mumbai, India
Awards / Commissions
Shergil Sundaram Installation Art Award, Delhi, India
Shortlisted
Drawing Installation, Devi Art Foundation, Delhi, India
Commission
Site Specific, Number8, Noida, India
Commission
Presentations / Talks
Forest of Imagination, School of Environment & Architecture (SEA), Mumbai, India
Online Conference
Light & Architecture, Jindal School of Art & Architecture
Online talk with Manav Bhargava moderated by Sarover Zaidi
Inhabitations, When is Space?, Jawahar Kala Kendra , Jaipur, India
Conference
Gallery Syster, Lulea, Sweden
Presentation
Braunschweig University, Germany, Invited by Ivana Franke & Tomas Saraceno
Presentation
Publications
Unseen Art, Stir World, www.stirworld.com
With Dilpreet Bhullar
Dancers on a Shaking Bridge, FUKT Magazine for Contemporary Drawing, System Issue #18
In Conversation with Shveta Sarda
The Poetics of Absence and Presence in Parul Gupta’s Art: A Case for Revisiting Theories and Histories of Abstraction, Field Review: South Asia, Asia Contemporary Art Week http://www.acaw.info/?page_id=28482
By Somak Ghoshal
In Focus: Abstraction, Edited by Geeta Kapur and Jyotindra Jain, Marg Publication Volume 68
Written by Meenakshi Thirukode
Drawing Proposal – Drawing with Community, Common Grounds – Insert 2014
Project Proposal with Gagandeep Singh
Press
Pare, Blur and Vibrate, Art India Publication: Volume 25 Issue 1
Review by Meera Menezes
In Parul Gupta’s Square, The Hindu
Review by Georgina Maddox
Artists, architects and artisans come together for a show on ideas and scale, Architecture and Design
Review by Shaikh Ayaz
Artist Parul Gupta’s exhibit at the reD studio uses lines to break boundaries in art, Vogue India
By Mihika Aggarwal
Delhi-based Parul Gupta’s second solo show in the city is inspired by architectural spaces, Mumbai Mirror
By Reema Gehi
Saloni Doshi shares the top 10 artists, Elle Decor
By Anamika Butalia
Shrine Empire’s new group show experiments with light, line and liminality, Architecture And Design
By Georgina Maddox
40 artists under the age of 40, Vogue
By Shahnaz Siganporia
Art and architecture at Jawahar Kala Kendra, Live Mint
By Avantika Bhuyan
Making Space, Platform Publication Volume 4 Issue 5
By Soumya Mukerji
Time And Time Again, Art Illustration Publication volume 4 Issue 3
Curated by Tushar Joag
Kuriren
By Eva Åström
The Absent Figure and The Intimate Present, Art India Publication I Volume 21 Issue 2
By Shruti Ramlingaiah
5 Indian Artists Under 35, Global Private Museum Network
By Gayatri Sinha
Top 10 young artists, Mid-Day
By Benita Fernando
The new Indian Express,The Inheritors
By Georgina Maddox
6 Edgy Young Female Artists, She The People
By Tara Khandelwal
23 Young Artists, Livemint
By Elizabeth Kuruvilla, Preeti Zachariah, Dhamini Ratnam
Art chronicles: Young age artists and their renaissance works, The new Indian Express
By Georgina Maddox
Phenomenology of Perception, Art Forum Review November Issue
By Meera Menezes
Phenomenology of Perception, Art Asia Pacific Web Review
By Somak Ghoshal
Art and much more…, DNA
By Ashiesh Shah
Parul Gupta masters space and time, Sunday Guardian
By Kanika Anand