Gauri Gill is a Delhi-based photographer. She studied at the Delhi College of Art, the Parsons' School of Design, New York at and Stanford University in California. Gill’s practice is complex because it contains several lines of pursuit. These include her more than a decade-long study of marginalised communities in rural Rajasthan (Notes from the Desert). She has investigated issues around displacement, cities and memory (The Americans, Rememory, What Remains). Working in both black and white and colour, Gill’s work addresses the twinned Indian identity markers of class and community as determinants of mobility and social behaviour. In her work, there is empathy, surprise, subversive humor, and a human concern over issues of survival. Her work is in the collections of prominent North American and Indian institutions and in 2011 she was awarded the Grange Prize, Canada’s foremost award for photography.

WORK

Ismat, Barmer
by Gauri Gill
From the series 'Notes from the Desert'
1999-2010

Jannat, Barmer
by Gauri Gill
From the series 'Notes from the Desert'
1999-2010

Urma and Nimli, Lunkaransar
by Gauri Gill
From the series 'Notes from the Desert'
1999-2010

ESSAYS

A Multitudinous Cast

by Natasha Ginwala

The mask is a continuation of selfhood, a mirror of dream states but also a means of rendering a face to characterize those disjunctive life scenes that become alluring and haunting refrains, as inevitable remainders. It is that grey terrain where lucid interplay between reality and fiction ensues.

Gauri Gill's The Americans

by Christopher Pinney

Gauri Gill’s “The Americans” on display in the Michigan Avenue Galleries is a remarkable body of work. To fully grasp what it is that Gill attempts in this project we need to understand something about an earlier project - the Jewish, Swiss-American photographer Robert Frank’s work of the same name

Gauri Gill

A Multitudinous Cast

Gauri Gill's The Americans

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