Archived Projects

SP Lohia Foundation is proud to have supported, in collaboration with The Gujral Foundation the historic exhibition My East is Your West, a landmark exhibition uniting for the first time at the Venice Biennale the historically conflicting nations of India and Pakistan in a shared presentation by artists Shilpa Gupta (India) and Rashid Rana (Pakistan).

Titled after a light installation by Shilpa Gupta, My East is Your West was born out of the desire to reposition the complex climate of historical relations between South Asia’s nation-states and present the region as a shared cultural cartography. Shilpa Gupta’s works brought together over four years of ongoing research in the India-Bangladesh borderlands and the world’s most extended security barrier between two nation-states currently in construction. Rashid Rana presented an immersive setting across five rooms surveying the conception of presence, temporality and location as a collective experience across digital printmaking, video and installation.