Barkha Gupta & Urvi Sethna | Untitled

Pulp Society is very excited to show Barkha Gupta, from our Summer Somethings show last year, and Urvi Sethna, in the exhibition Untitled which is on view at B-247, Okhla Phase 1 in New Delhi from 23 November through 18 January, 2025. 

Both the artists respond to urbanization, and the loss of individual identity of a city. We call this show Untitled, to reflect the ubiquitous ‘cityness’ taking over, and flattening of any शहरी elements. 

The work of both the artists in the show looks at the linear development/ destruction of the urban realms  in the two megapolises of India (Delhi, and Mumbai) through diametrically opposite scopes. 

Barkha’s work examines the linear expansion, and simultaneous collapse inherent in the growth of a city. Having been exposed to architecture, nature, and spatiality from an early age; Barkha documents this maturation across mediums, including threading her journey into textiles through this body of work. 

Urvi is responding to the material symbols that dominate Mumbai’s landscape—blue tarpaulins shielding monsoon-drenched structures, and the green construction nets that blanket ever changing façades of mega buildings. Both elements are icons of a city in perpetual flux, reciting parallel stories of development, and desaturation.

Academically, and historically, the title ‘Untitled’ for artworks is used for a variety of reasons, including avoiding being bracketed in certain institutional/ market driven quants; enunciating abstraction; or even an emphasis of the visual medium being wider than the scope of words, and language. We chose to title our show such for almost all the above reasons. 

Untitled reflects the layers of city life—unsung, relentless, and endlessly unfolding.