Come Out : A special project by SUNIL GUPTA

In this never-before-exhibited series of black-and-white photographs, featured in Gupta’s most recent publication titled Come Out (2023) published by Stanley Barker in London, Gupta presents images from the growing pride movement in London from the mid to late 1980s.

Vadehra Art Gallery is pleased to present a special project by Indian–Canadian, London-based photographer Sunil Gupta titled Come Out – featuring a never-before-exhibited series of black-and-white photographs shot in London from 1985 to 1995.
Sunil Gupta uses photography to engage with post-modernist, post-colonial activations of identity politics and public life, particularly in regard to queer experiences. His oeuvre expresses an impulse to re-center marginalized accounts that tend to exist on the periphery of the socio-cultural fabric of historical and contemporary cities and narratives. Born and raised in Delhi, growing up in Montreal, and then working in New York City, Gupta’s eventual move to London in the 1980s establishes an ever-more expansive cultural field of insight vis-à-vis queer studies, migration, racism, sexuality, and the politics of person, supported by the autobiographical weight of his own experiences, which are passionate concerns the artist has remained committed to over his decades-long career.

Date & Time: 30 January 2024, to 1 March 2024 6 – 8 pm

Venue: The Viewing Room
Vadehra Art Gallery
D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi