This book presents the work of one of India s

most exciting and internationally visible young

artists who engages with the consequences

of her country s rising global prominence

through her art. Poised at the intersection of art and technology, the sacred

and the secular, Shilpa Gupta's work occupies multiple

contexts: post-feminist art, technology-enabled art, and

transcultural art. The Mumbai-born artist uses interactive

video, found objects, photography, sound, and public

performance to probe the themes of desire, belief, terror,

personal safety, and international security the bar of soap

imprinted with the word THREAT , which can be used, thereby

neutralizing the threat; the projection works Untitled

(Shadows), which require the audience to cast shadows of

themselves onto a screen; the white packages labeled There is

no explosive in this with the no less prominent than the rest.

This monograph features essays that discuss Gupta s work

from the perspective of new media, religious politics, the

critique of the nation-state, and global violence. Thoughtprovoking

and perceptive, Gupta s art emerges in response to

the entanglements of the global contemporary, making it

universally accessible.