Garima Gupta (b.1985) is a researcher and artist based in New Delhi, India. She documents micro-stories and events considered tenuous in ecological wars. In bringing these flotsams of ecological wreckage, her work invites us to witness as this refuse transforms into molecules of loss, migration, wants, imaginations, obsessions, frivolity and attachment - beckoning a change with and within, for a radically robust future of our ecosphere.
Gupta’s fieldwork confides in drawing, film making and writing as a petition for fringe narratives and failing archives - speculating, fabulating - that which is not uttered and seldom imagined. Recent sites of her inquiry include the Mahakali river on the India-Nepal border. Her past fieldwork include geographies of Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and Thailand where she has been documenting trade in wildlife.
The 5-year long research project based on her fieldwork in Papua New Guinea and Southeast Asian archipelago was presented at an intermediate stage as a solo presentation in Minutes of the Meeting at Clark House Initiative in 2017. The entire research culminated into a solo show titled Filed Under: a/muse/um at TARQ in 2020. Her group shows include, Our Conspiring Hosts, Delhi, India (2024); NAYA ANJOR, Delhi, India (2022); Event, Memory, Metaphor, TARQ, Mumbai, India (2022); A Beast, A God and a Line, Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh (2018) which also travelled to Para Site, Hong Kong; Museum of Modern Art, Poland; and Kunsthall Trondheim, Norway. She was the Visiting Artist Fellow at the Mittal Institute, Harvard University in 2023. Her works are in the collection at Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi.