{"id":30301,"title":"1:14.9 1188.5 Miles of Fenced Border – West, North-West","dimensions":"56 x 51 x 158 cm","date_begin":"2011-01-01","material":"Hand wound thread ball and vitrine","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":24,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":4,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Private collection, Courtesy of Wilde Gallery","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"\u003cp\u003e1188.5 miles of fenced border \u0026ndash; West, North-West Data\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nUpdate: Dec 31, 2007\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nHand wound ball of thread and a vitrine.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","date_end":"2012-01-01","reference":"","stream_count_app":28,"permalink":"01-14-9","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/072/531/medium_500/Shilpa_Gupta_Mukha-1149_PatV.jpg?1623070121","cached_actor_names":"SHILPA GUPTA","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":false,"category":{"en":"Sculpture","nl":"Sculptuur","fr":"Sculpture"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/072/531/large/Shilpa_Gupta_Mukha-1149_PatV.jpg?1623070121","poster_credits":"image: (c) Pat Verbruggen, Private collection, Courtesy of Wilde Gallery","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003e1:14.9\u003c/em\u003e (2011\u0026ndash;12), a hand-wound ball of thread is accompanied by a small plaque reading \u0026ldquo;1188.5 MILES OF FENCED BORDER \u0026ndash; WEST, NORTH-WEST / DATA UPDATE: DEC 31, 2007.\u0026rdquo; Using sterile data about the fencing of the border between India and Pakistan extracted from a publicly available report by the Ministry of Home Affairs in India, she poetically represents the geopolitical division as a gleaming orb\u0026mdash;a form that seems, at first, as abstract as the raw statistics from which it is derived. Yet the thread\u0026rsquo;s fragility reflects the tenuous nature of national boundaries, which demand constant restatement and surveillance. The object\u0026rsquo;s ovoid shape also suggests origins or genesis, and calls to mind the South Asian partition, which occurred either side of midnight on August 14, 1947, birthing two distinct nations in immediate succession.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003chr /\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eYap (J.)., \u003cem\u003eShilpa Gupta - 1:14.9 (1188.5 miles of fenced border - West, North-West)\u003c/em\u003e, In: \u003ca href=\"https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/31237\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe Guggenheim Museum\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003e1:14.9\u003c/em\u003e (2011-12) wordt een met de hand opgewonden bol draad vergezeld door een klein bordje met de tekst \u0026quot;1188.5 MILES OF FENCED BORDER - WEST, NORTH-WEST DATA / UPDATE: DEC 31, 2007.\u0026quot; Aan de hand van steriele gegevens over de omheining van de grens tussen India en Pakistan, afkomstig uit een openbaar rapport van het Indiase ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken, stelt ze [Shilpa Gupta] de geopolitieke scheiding po\u0026euml;tisch voor als een glanzende bol \u0026ndash; een vorm die op het eerste gezicht even abstract lijkt als de ruwe statistieken waaraan deze ontleend is. Toch weerspiegelt de broosheid van de draad de ijle aard van nationale grenzen, die voortdurend opnieuw moeten worden vastgesteld en bewaakt. De eivorm van het object suggereert ook ontstaan of genese, en doet denken aan de Zuid-Aziatische deling, die op 14 augustus 1947 om middernacht plaatsvond, en twee verschillende naties voortbracht die elkaar onmiddellijk opvolgden.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\"\u003e\r\n\u003chr align=\"center\" size=\"3\" width=\"100%\" /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eVertaling van Yap (J.)., \u003cem\u003eShilpa Gupta - 1:14.9 (1188.5 miles of fenced border - West, North-West)\u003c/em\u003e, In: \u003ca href=\"https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/31237\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe Guggenheim Museum\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eDans \u003cem\u003e1:14.9\u003c/em\u003e (2011-2012), une pelote de fil enroul\u0026eacute;e \u0026agrave; la main est accompagn\u0026eacute;e d\u0026rsquo;une petite plaque sur laquelle on peut lire \u003cem\u003e1188.5\u0026nbsp;MILES OF FENCED BORDER \u0026ndash; WEST, NORTH-WEST / DATA UPDATE\u0026nbsp;: DEC 31, 2007 \u003c/em\u003e[1185,5\u0026nbsp;miles de fronti\u0026egrave;re cl\u0026ocirc;tur\u0026eacute;e \u0026ndash; ouest-nord-ouest / mise \u0026agrave; jour des informations le 31\u0026nbsp;d\u0026eacute;cembre 2007]. En utilisant des donn\u0026eacute;es st\u0026eacute;riles sur la cl\u0026ocirc;ture de la fronti\u0026egrave;re entre l\u0026rsquo;Inde et le Pakistan, extraites d\u0026rsquo;un rapport du minist\u0026egrave;re indien de l\u0026rsquo;Int\u0026eacute;rieur accessible au public, l\u0026rsquo;artiste repr\u0026eacute;sente de mani\u0026egrave;re po\u0026eacute;tique la division g\u0026eacute;opolitique sous la forme d\u0026rsquo;un orbe brillant \u0026ndash; une forme qui, \u0026agrave; premi\u0026egrave;re vue, para\u0026icirc;t aussi abstraite que les statistiques brutes dont elle est issue. Pourtant, la fragilit\u0026eacute; du fil refl\u0026egrave;te la nature t\u0026eacute;nue des fronti\u0026egrave;res nationales, qui exigent d\u0026rsquo;\u0026ecirc;tre sans cesse r\u0026eacute;affirm\u0026eacute;es et surveill\u0026eacute;es. La forme ovo\u0026iuml;de de l\u0026rsquo;objet sugg\u0026egrave;re \u0026eacute;galement les origines ou la gen\u0026egrave;se, et fait penser \u0026agrave; la partition de l\u0026rsquo;Asie du Sud, qui s\u0026rsquo;est produite de part et d\u0026rsquo;autre, \u0026agrave; minuit, le 14\u0026nbsp;ao\u0026ucirc;t 1947, donnant naissance \u0026agrave; deux nations distinctes comme succession imm\u0026eacute;diate.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\"\u003e\r\n\u003chr align=\"center\" size=\"0\" width=\"100%\" /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eYap (J.)., \u003cem\u003eShilpa Gupta \u0026ndash; 1:14.9 (1188.5 miles of fenced border \u0026ndash; West, North-West)\u003c/em\u003e, dans\u0026nbsp;: \u003ca href=\"https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/31237\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe Guggenheim Museum\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":2460,"name":"SHILPA GUPTA","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}