Sunil Gupta, Untitled #02 Saleem Kidwai and me, Qutub Minar, Delhi, 1982
Hales are delighted to announce Sunil Gupta's new publication We Were Here: Sexuality, Photography, and Cultural Difference: Selected essays by Sunil Gupta is now available to order.
Newspaper articles, speeches, and essays show Gupta's crucial role at the center of grassroots queer and postcolonial organizing throughout an artistic career lived between Canada, the UK, and India. In his pieces about homosexuality in Indian cities, the AIDS crisis, the Black Arts Movement, or key figures including Joy Gregory and Robert Mapplethorpe, Gupta foregrounds the power of cultural activism in the politically fraught contexts of London and Delhi, and illuminates the essential connections between queer migration and self-discovery. Continually questioning given forms of identity, Gupta offers artists and curators multiple strategies of resistance, carving out space for new ways of imagining what it might.
Newspaper articles, speeches, and essays show Gupta's crucial role at the center of grassroots queer and postcolonial organizing throughout an artistic career lived between Canada, the UK, and India. In his pieces about homosexuality in Indian cities, the AIDS crisis, the Black Arts Movement, or key figures including Joy Gregory and Robert Mapplethorpe, Gupta foregrounds the power of cultural activism in the politically fraught contexts of London and Delhi, and illuminates the essential connections between queer migration and self-discovery. Continually questioning given forms of identity, Gupta offers artists and curators multiple strategies of resistance, carving out space for new ways of imagining what it might.
We Were Here: Sexuality, Photography, and Cultural Difference is published by Apeture.
Sunil Gupta
We Were Here: Sexuality, Photography, and Cultural Difference: Selected essays by Sunil Gupta
22 September 2022.
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September 22, 2022
