Subodh Gupta, Untitled

2012

One of India’s preeminent contemporary artists, Gupta uses readymade objects that reference the country’s rich cultural heritage and its rapidly changing economic climate. Utilitarian items, such as spigots, tea kettles, and cooking pots, are elements of daily Indian life associated with communal activities. The tasks with which they are associated—gathering water from the town well in rural farm areas, cooking, or drinking tea—are commonplace rituals that remain regardless of economic or social change.