Shilpa Gupta

100 Hand Drawn Maps of India, single channel video projection, table, 3’:42”, 2007– 08

Shilpta Gupta (b.1976, India), One Hundred Hand Drawn Maps of India draws us into the complexities of the construction and delineation of space articulated in man-made borders. The video sequence features numerous representations of the Indian map, as drawn from memory by 100 Indian adults. The variety of forms produced throw into question how political borders are created, imagined, and learnt. A highly subjective interpretation of the territory of a nation sees states skipped or incorporated with the attitude of each author. The work is made in times where the identity of the nation state has been emphasized and the relationship between an individual and the imagined state is ambivalent.

《100幅手绘印度地图》，单屏录像投影桌，3分42秒, 2007 － 2008

库普塔（出生于1976年，印度）的《100幅手绘印度地图》吸引我们的是人为空间构建与边界划分的 复杂性。作品根据100位印度成年人的记忆绘制了不同的印度地图。地图不同的形状所产生的问题 使我们联想到政治边界是如何产生、想象和领会的。由于对于国家领土的解读是非常主观的，所以 每一个人画的地图都是不同的。这件作品产生于民族国家的身份一直被强调的时代，而个人与想象 的国家之间的关系是矛盾的。

Above: detail of 100 Hand Drawn Maps of India. Left: installation view of 100 Hand Drawn Maps of India at Lee Hwaik Gallery.

上图及左图：《100幅手绘印度地图》在韩国 Lee Hwaik画廊的展览现场。