Courtesy Shilpa Gupta

Shilpa Gupta, "Untitled (Head book)," 2009. Mild steel with heating mechanism and pedestal, 45 x 13 x 17 1/2 in.

Courtesy Shilpa Gupta

Shilpa Gupta, "Untitled (There is No Border Here)," 2006. Wall drawing with self adhesive tape, 118 x 118 in.

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Shilpa Gupta, who was part of the inaugural edition of the New Museum’s triennial "The Generational: Younger Than Jesus" last year, will finally have her first solo museum show, through May 2 at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati. Gupta, who lives and works in Mumbai, pushes those looking at her art to cast aside slack postures and casual glances and instead participate in it by creating meaning. In her new site-specific interactive piece Speaking Wall, for instance, viewers become players by guiding their projected silhouettes across a landscape according to instructions, transmitted through earphones, about which brick to step on along their path. She exploits the confrontational and tense space between spectator and work to create for the former a unique and personal experience of the art.

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"Shilpa Gupta" originally appeared in the March issue of Modern Painters. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Modern Painters' March 2010 Table of Contents.