Gunjan Gupta’s engagement with cultural paradoxes is communicated via an
ongoing art and design practice that often questions assumptions about Indian class
myth, and the contrast between master craft and jugaad.
With a trademark playful approach towards material and form, her work
represents new applications of India’s handmade and craft vernacular. “Through serendipitous occurrences
that emerge from iterative play and stacking disparate objects and materials,
she reveals the delicate interplay between India’s cultural contradictions.
Her perspectives on India are communicated via collectible design objects,
curatorial roles, and an ongoing practice that questions the rules of society,
hierarchy, and ultimately, oneself.
Gupta has a Master’s degree in Furniture Design from Central Saint
Martins, London. She is the founder of Studio Wrap, a New Delhi-based interior and
furniture design studio, and IKKIS, a product design brand where classical forms find
expression as 21st-century design objects for the home.
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