{"id":31943,"title":"Untitled (You Are Eating a Part of Yourself)","dimensions":"00:03:54","date_begin":"1996-01-01","material":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":21,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":3,"stream_count":0,"collection":"M HKA / Collection Flemish Community","cached_tag_list":"installation, M HKA, collection","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"BK009650","stream_count_app":28,"permalink":"untitled-eating-a-part-of-yourself","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/084/446/medium_500/Gupta_nails_02.png?1654694430","cached_actor_names":"SHILPA GUPTA","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":"","short_description_tr":"","mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Video","nl":"Video","fr":"Video"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/084/445/large/Gupta_nails_01.png?1654694394","poster_credits":"(c)Shilpa Gupta, 1996","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn her work \u003ci\u003eUntitled (You Are Eating a Part of Yourself)\u003c/i\u003e, we see the artist ominously biting her fingernails. She is sitting on a window ledge, staring aimlessly through the glass, and a sense of anxiety can be seen clearly in her compulsive bad habit. We hear a voice off-camera repeating over and over “you are eating a part of yourself”. It is a modest work, presented on a very small video monitor, yet it is also amongst her formative. Inevitably she is peering out into, and seeking to understand, the society she lives in, and it is causing her to eat away at her fingers. Gupta previously stated about the work: “I tried to make a comment on the prevailing confusion and the way we consume ourselves subconsciously”. \u003ci\u003eUntitled (You Are Eating a Part of Yourself)\u003c/i\u003e considers such effects on the subconscious that ultimately manifest in disquiet and auto-cannibalism. They were to become central and recurring concerns in her work over the following decades.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eUntitled (You Are Eating a Part of Yourself)\u003c/i\u003e zien we de kunstenares onheilspellend op haar vingernagels bijten. Ze zit op een vensterbank en staart doelloos door het venster,\u0026nbsp;uit haar dwangmatige ‘slechte’ gewoonte blijkt duidelijk haar angst. We horen een stem buiten beeld die keer op keer herhaalt: you are eating a part of yourself\u0026nbsp;[je bent een deel van jezelf aan het eten]. \u003ci\u003eUntitled (You Are Eating a Part of Yourself) \u003c/i\u003eis een bescheiden werk dat wordt gepresenteerd op een heel kleine videomonitor. Tevens is het ook een van Gupta’s belangrijke vroege werken. Ze kan niet anders dan naar buiten turen en de samenleving waarin ze leeft proberen te begrijpen – wat ervoor zorgt dat ze aan vingers begint te knabbelen. Eerder zei Gupta over het werk: ‘Ik heb geprobeerd een commentaar te leveren op de heersende verwarring en de manier waarop we onszelf onbewust consumeren’. \u003ci\u003eUntitled (You Are Eating a Part of Yourself) \u003c/i\u003ethematiseert het soort effecten op het onderbewustzijn die zich uiteindelijk uiten in onrust en auto-kannibalisme. De komende decennia zou Shilpa Gupta zich in haar werk steeds opnieuw met dit soort vraagstukken bezighouden.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eDans son oeuvre \u003ci\u003eUntitled (You Are Eating a Part of Yourself)\u003c/i\u003e, nous voyons l’artiste se ronger nerveusement les ongles. Elle est assise sur le rebord d’une fenêtre, fixant le vide à travers la vitre. Un sentiment d’anxiété transparaît clairement dans sa manie compulsive. Nous entendons une voix hors champ qui répète en boucle « tu es en train de manger une partie de toi-même ». Il s’agit d’une oeuvre modeste, présentée sur petit moniteur vidéo ; pourtant elle fait partie des oeuvres formatrices de Gupta. L’artiste observe et cherche inlassablement à comprendre la société dans laquelle elle vit, et cela pousse à se ronger les ongles. Gupta a précédemment déclaré à propos de cette oeuvre : « J’ai essayé de formuler un commentaire sur la confusion ambiante et la façon dont nous nous consommons inconsciemment. » \u003ci\u003eUntitled (You Are Eating a Part of Yourself)\u003c/i\u003e examine de tels effets sur le subconscient qui se manifestent en définitive par un sentiment d’inquiétude et par l’auto-cannibalisme. Deux thèmes qui deviendront des préoccupations centrales et récurrentes dans son travail au cours des décennies suivantes.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e"},{"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"}}]}