27 AUGUST 2022 | SATURDAY | 5 PM - 6:30 PM

Venue: British Council, Anna Salai, Chennai.

A discussion around the evolution of his interests in the representation of politics to the politics of representation. How this has been shaped by various migrations; from Delhi to Montreal as a teenager in 1969, From Montreal to New York in 1976, and from there to London in 1978. For the period 2005-2012, I moved my practice to Delhi, and then back to London. His practice has been expanding from an initial interest in modernist photography through an embrace of post-colonial, post-modernist identity politics movements in the 1980s that brought homosexuality and race to the fore. Inevitably this led to a shift away from the commercial art world towards community and activism using both formal and non-formal education, writing, editing and curatorial tools to coalesce his lived experiences with political and aesthetic consequences of art making.

Sunil Gupta is a British/Canadian citizen, (b. New Delhi 1953) MA (RCA) PhD (Westminster) who lives in London and has been involved with independent photography as a critical practice for many years focusing on race, migration, and queer issues. He is a Professorial Fellow at UCA, Farnhtam. His forthcoming book is “We Were Here: Sexuality, Photography, and Cultural Difference, Selected Writings by Sunil Gupta”, Aperture New York 2022 and his current exhibitions include; “Sunil Gupta: Songs of Deliverance, Part I and Part II” at the Hammersmith Hospital, London. His work is in many private and public collections including; the Tokyo Museum of Photography, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Royal Ontario Museum, Tate and the Museum of Modern Art. His work is represented by Hales Gallery (New York, London), Materià Gallery (Rome), Stephen Bulger Gallery (Toronto) and Vadehra Art Gallery (New Delhi).