With a double appointment at the Maxxi in Rome and L’Aquila, Shilpa Gupta (Mumbai, 1976) returns to Italy after the 2019 Venice Biennale where she presented two of the most interesting works on display: “Untitled 2009” and the installation “For, in your tongue, I cannot fit”, a work of very strong impact and content from which the publication presented at the Maxxi in Rome on 31st March was born.
The book was created with the intention of sharing the research that Shilpa Gupta and the writer and journalist Salil Tripathi have conducted for several years on the theme of freedom of speech, collecting texts of poets who – in different eras and countries, all over the world – have been persecuted, imprisoned, murdered for their words (the proceeds from the sale of the book will go to the “PEN – Writers in Prison” association).
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