LONDON.- Shubha Taparia has created a collection of photographs entitled Spirit in the Inanimate exploring new details and multiple elements from her latest large-scale installation Silhouette of an Unknown Landscape. These are being presented at Prahlad Bubbar Gallery.

The photos highlight details from the vast installation such as scaffolding and other construction materials, transforming them into just light and shadows. Industrial materials that are usually overlooked and traditionally used to conceal, support or contain, have been transformed into subjects, revealing unexpected beauty in the seemingly mundane. The photographs have become new abstract works in their own right.

Taparia says “Through these photographs, I attempt to recreate the magic of an ephemeral encounter, where nature interacted with the manmade revealing the beauty of a process. Here the solid structures made out of construction materials take the form of light and shadows. The weightlessness and the quiet subvert our perceptions of a building site, thus continuing my theme of exploring the everyday.”

The work from which the photographs grew is Taparia’s vast site-specific installation of light, shadow and sound, Silhouette of an Unknown Landscape, which is also available to view by appointment only at the artist’s studio in NW2.

Shubha Taparia, born in Ahmendabad, India, has been living and working in London since 2001. After studying Visual arts and Music in India, Taparia completed her postgraduation In Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, London, in 2007.

Working with her own compilations of ‘the everyday’ and the urban environment, representations of history, power and globalization are brought to the forefront in all their irony and precariousness through her practice, which spans photography, performance, sound, video, mixed media, painting and installation. With references to older texts and art forms, she seeks a sense of universality, crossing cultures and localities, exploring the meaning of loss and impermanence and the consequences of human action in relation to the value of histories and the willingness to discard shared heritage in the name of an uncertain future.

Her most recent exhibitions include: Memories and Might, a collateral show to Kochi – Muziris Biennale 2018 at Kashi Art Gallery in Kochi, India; Silhouette of an Unknown Landscape (open studio and site-specific installation) at the artist’s studio, London (2018); “Performance” (Performance) at Slate Projects (Averard Hotel), London (2018); Prossalendi’s Britannia – Contemporary Perspective at the Ionian Academy, Corfu (2018); Point of Apoapsis curated by Shubha Taparia at Prahlad Bubbar Gallery, London (2017); Landscape and Silence, a collateral project of Kochi – Murziris Beinnale 2016; Averard Hotel with Slate Projects, London (2016); selected for Film Screenings at Washington Artworks, Maryland, USA (2016); solo show See In Your Mind’s Eye at Kashi Art Gallery in Kochi, India (2015). She was a finalist for The Creekside Open 2013 selected by Paul Noble and hosted by APT Galleries, London UK (2013), as well as a finalist for the Mostyn Open at Mostyn Galleries, Llandudno, UK (2011).