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Probir GUPTA, <Requiem>, video installation, 244x306x130cm, 2016
Probir GUPTA, <We are in the same boat brother>, video installation, Dimension variable, 2012
Probir GUPTA
Requiem
<Requiem>(2016) manifests inhuman abuse of treating children, girls and women as sex slaves and forcing them to work like machines. Probir Gupta pays homage to sex slaves today through this work. Inscribed on the iron plates at the back of the work are names of flowers in memory of abducted women. This visually abnormal work provides metaphorical translation of human atrocities. <We are in the Same Boat Brother>(2012) reflects the Diaspora of Jews in India. It displays Hindus, Muslims and Christians coexisting peacefully and living a happy life in a dystopia among Islamic extremists. The guardians who manage Jewish synagogues are third generation Muslims. In the film, scenes that have structures of skeletons, objects, feedbacks from Israelis integrated in them can be witnessed. Having <The Old Man and the Sea> written by Ernest Hemingway as its reference book, the work was inspired by a real life situation of the Jews and Muslims coexisting peacefully and unthreatened on the busily crowded road of Kolkata.
