Shilpa Gupta, Untitled II, 2006, photo on archival paper, 109,2 x 73,7 cm. Edition of 6.

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In “Look round” Artericambi gallery is introducing a sample of Shilpa Gupta’s (Mumbay 1976) and Iman Issa’s (Cairo 1979) various and multiform artistic researches. it’s a wider view that offers new impetus and widen the experiences of contemporary art, nowadays moving beyond geographic borders. This interest witnesses and allows for emergent contexts to create new relationships and collaboration which might eventually develop into a new and mutual enrichment of perspectives in time.
Shilpa Gupta , using installations, videos and photos, tries to point out at the limits of advanced capitalism where technology functions as control and boundary instead of being an outlet for free exchange of ideas. The pictures of the exhibition stress the impossibility to look because they undergo a fundamental ambiguity : sometimes it’s us who look away from an often painful and unfair reality, some other times it’s the truth that is hidden to us notwithstanding a rampant information system in actual time.
On the other hand Iman Issa focuses on the reality of great cities and has carried out several site specific installations in public spaces and her videos and photos highlight alternative possibilities to look at and live the city. This is emphasized in the series “making places “ : the snapshots catch unexpected particulars of city life like a game where the reproduction of the effect implies a new way of looking and an unusual way to interact with space.

Shilpa Gupta, selected recent show:
2007: Shilpa Gupta, Artist’s studio, London (solo show) - Lyon Biennal, Lyon - Edge of desire, National gallery of modern art, Mumbai - Fashion Accidentally, Museum of contemporary art, Taipei
2006: Recent works, Bose Pacia gallery, New York (solo show) – Liverpool Biennal, Liverpool – Contemporary Commonwealth, Australian centre for moving image, Melbourne
2005: The artists lives and works in…, House of world culture, Berlin – Festival HTMlls, Biennale internationale de Cyberart, Studio XX, Montreal
2003:Blessed Bandwidth.net, Net Art commission from Tate on-line, London

Iman Issa, selected recent show:
2007: Memorial to the Iraq war, ICA, London – MFA exhibition, Columbia University, New York
2006: Philip, Project art centre, Dublin – Conscious in coma, Goethe institut, Istanbul
2005: PhotoCairo 3, CIC (Contemporay image collective), Cairo
2004: Mediterraneo, MACRO (museo d’arte contemporanea Roma), Roma
2003: Proposal for a crystal building, Gezira art centre, Cairo (solo show)