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  • Silence
  • Visibility: So much time hasn’t passed that the cracks become visible
  • Fluff: She was meant to be an experiment. She no longer is. She is the beginning.
  • What will we make of it
  • Suspension
  • An incomplete letter of dissent 06
  • An incomplete letter of dissent 05 (time is the number of squares that I can draw in a minute)
  • An incomplete letter of dissent 04 (time is the number of squares I can draw in a minute)
  • An incomplete letter of dissent 03 (time is the number of squares I can draw in a minute)
  • An incomplete letter of dissent 02 (time is the number of squares I can draw in a minute)

Solo exhibitions
2021, This will last and one must not forget, Galerie Felix Frachon, Brussels
2018, Everything is precious, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2017, You will die soon, Felix Frachon Gallery, Brussels
2009, Someday, Gallery Beyond, Mumbai
2007, Metamorphoses retold, Gallery Beyond, Mumbai
group shows and participations
2021, State of mind: between dysphoria and hope, Curated by Sayali Mundye, Sakshi Gallery,
Mumbai
2021, Asia Now, Paris with Galerie Felix Frachon, Brussels
2021, In The Light Of, Curated by Gitanjali Dang, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2021, In The Light Of, Curated by Gitanjali Dang, Gallery Ark, Baroda
2020, Chapter 4, Galerie Felix Frachon, Brussels
2020, Breathing Through Shifting Scapes, Curated by Jesal Thaker, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2020, Focus les petites editions, Galerie Felix Frachon, Brussels
2019, Art Brussels, with Galerie Felix Frachon, Brussels
2019, India Art Fair, New Delhi, with Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2019, Anthesis, Curated by Girish Shahane, Veda Gallery, Chenai
2018, Chapter 1, curated by Galerie Felix Frachon, Brussels at Mohanjeet, Paris
2018, Art Brussels, with Galerie Felix Frachon, Brussels,
2018, Reimagine India – Here, There, Everywhere, Birmingham MAC, Birmingham
2017, Brussels Gallery Weekend, with Galerie Felix Frachon, Brussels
2015, forgotten, Art Oxygen with Times celebrate Bandra festival, Mumbai
2015, The Porcupine In The Room, Curated by Gitanjali Dang, Delphina Foundation, London
2015, Response to Stimuli, part I, Sakshi Salon, Mumbai
2015, Eat, Pray, Thug, Aicon Gallery, New York
2015, Open 2, residency at HH Art Spaces, Goa
2014, Echo with Anna Mendieta, Khanabadosh and What About Art, Mumbai
2011, Nostalgia, Pride and Fear, Cameleon Art Projects with gallery BMB, Mumbai
2011, India Art Fair, New Delhi, with Gallery Beyond, Mumbai
2009, Art Expo India 2009, showcase of modern & contemporary art, Mumbai, with Gallery
Beyond, Mumbai

2009, Uttarayan art camp, Uttarayan Art Centre, Jashpur, Baroda
2009, Meridian art camp with Gallery Beyond, Mumbai
2009, Kalaghoda Art Festival, Mumbai
2008, Looking Back, Gallery Beyond, Mumbai
2008, Asian Contemporary Art Fair, New York, with Gallery Beyond, Mumbai
2008, Potpourri, Gallery Beyond, Mumbai
2007, Outward & Visible Signs of an Inward & Invincible Grace, Alliance Française, Delhi, with
Gallery Beyond, Mumbai
2007, Art Singapore 2007, the contemporary Asian art fair, Singapore, with Simyo Gallery, Seoul
2005, Sandarbh art camp, site specific installation, Partapur, Rajasthan
2005, Graduating show of the London Institute, group show, London College of Printing, London

Ratna lives and works in Bombay

Ratna Gupta’s creative practice may be seen as physical demonstration/ playing out of the complex and sometimes painful negotiations and resolutions of personal, psycho-emotional contradictions. However, her work does not restrict itself to self-referential indulgence. While the ‘self’ has a strong presence in her work, she rejects direct figurative representation for a more actively conceptual/ sculptural way of rendering the living figure inscribed by all its contradictions and fragilities. She is also interested in undermining the earth-body binary. From here the artist speculates on the ways in which this rift has been further fuelled by our culture of consumption.

The process of extrapolating an element that is still living is a way to freeze it in time. Ratna’s work reminds viewers that we are surrounded even more by infospheres with a sharp degradation of our biological / natural ecosystems. When asked to simply describe her work, she wrote down – memories, repetition, time, temporary, change, imprinting, preserving, to contain, succession.

After finishing her BA (2000) from St. Xavier’s College, Bombay, Ratna studied graphic design (2001) at the Weighan and Leigh College, Bombay. She further went on to do a three-year BA honours (2005) in book arts and crafts at the London College of Printing.

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    September 7, 2022 - September 1, 2022

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