Gopa Trivedi
(b. 1987)
Gopa Trivedi’s practice weaves the rhizomatic connections between her lived and intangible experiences—conversations, daily encounters, travels and so on. This practice of constantly drawing parallels has brought forth a porosity in the borders between what is considered personal or individualistic, and all that is culturally shared—be it visual, literary, or oral. Collective knowledge systems that take the form of histories, stories, myths, and fables, then seem to blur the distinctions between “Us” and “Them.” Her visual vocabulary often refers to nature, domestic spaces, and mundane objects, in an attempt to capture the transient essence of things by incorporating the ubiquitous cyclical aspects of degeneration, transformation, and mutations through sequential images, repetition, and patterns. Coming from Lucknow (known for being one of the cultural hubs in India), literature for her has always been an integral part of growing up. Owing to this, her experiences and observations often manifest as visual counterparts to figures of speech—analogies, metaphors, puns and so on—which then allow for something in between a ‘viewing’ and ‘reading’ of the works.
Gopa Trivedi completed her BFA in Painting (2010) and MFA with a specialization in Painting (2012) from the Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU, Baroda. She was shortlisted for the Lepsien Foundation Emerging Artist Award in 2015 and has been a recipient of the UMISSA Scholarship from S.A.F India in 2013. Recent participations include Art Dubai with LATITUDE 28, Dubai (2023 and 2022); Delhi Contemporary Art Week with LATITUDE 28, Bikaner House, New Delhi (2023 and 2022); India Art Fair with LATITUDE 28, New Delhi (2023 and 2022); ‘Multitudes & Assemblages’ with LATITUDE 28, Artissima (Hub India) curated by Myna Mukherjee and Davide Quadrio, Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti, Italy (2021); ‘Playhouse of Her Mind’, LATITUDE 28, New Delhi (2021); ‘Telling Tales: A journey into narrative forms’, Anant Art (2020); ‘Visions in the Making’ by Myna Mukherjee and Davide Quadrio, Italian Embassy (2020); India Art Fair 2020 with Italian Embassy, New Delhi (2020).
