Whether through performance, installation, or her expansive light and text sculptures, Shilpa Gupta foregrounds the relationships between audiences across gender, generation, class, religion, or race, revealing the many ways we receive and absorb information without truly understanding or critiquing it. Gupta’s often focuses on the constructed divides created by political regimes, borders, and censorship, leading her practice frequently into public space — problematizing power structures and hierarchies through poetic and quiet interventions.