Sangam...
11:05 a.m.08/02/23 - Sangam is a word that comes from the Hindi language and means “confluence” and this is the title given to the exhibition on display at Le Bon Marché in Paris. The artist who created these monumental pieces is Subodh Gupta (India, 1964), who used hundreds of used kitchen utensils affected by the passage of time to build a kind of shelter in which pans hang from the ceiling of the hall. This circular construction is located on the upper floor of the gallery and the pots, overcoming gravity (because they hung from a fishing line from the ceiling), give the structure a certain movement. Each one of the saucepans shows the passage of time and the use to which they were exposed when, containing food, they gathered a family to eat or to celebrate some event. This is an installation that questions the universality of the gesture of setting the table, serving and eating, regardless of the cultures, the number of people who sit down to eat, the traditions and the stories that we share.
The Proust Effect, by Subodh Gupta
Installation. Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche
The Proust Effect, by Subodh Gupta
Installation. Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche (Detail)
The other two installations that complete this exhibition occupy the entire height of the central hall of Le Bon Marché, and it is impossible not to think of Marcel Duchamp's ready-mades in the appropriation of the manufactured object. The pieces for these two works were selected by the artist from the flea markets of Ile-de-France. After working on them, he joined them into two opulent sculptures.
Sangam I y II, by Subodh Gupta
Installation. Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche.
The three installations can be explored in 360 degrees, either from the ground floor or from the upper floor, completely mingling with the environment that contains them as well as with the visitors of Le Bon Marché. Both Sangam, these monumental site-specific, resemble a wave or a metal waterfall that includes us in its mirror reflections. Definitely, quite an experience.
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