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Gupta’s Speaking Wall

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Contemporary Art

When a Wall Starts Speaking

Shilpa Gupta’s Speaking Wall uses bricks, headphones, a small screen and a sensor. The viewer moves along a line of bricks while a voice responds to their position. A wall normally tells the body where it cannot go. Here the boundary begins giving instructions. That reversal makes the work unsettling: something built to separate becomes strangely intimate because it knows exactly how close you are.

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