the west thinks you imitate (Shilpa Gupta)
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I think
The aim is experience
I, I ,I think

Working with ready-made stuff
People back home think you are imitating the west
And the West thinks you imitate

There is a certain hierarchy
Which is always built-in
Hey, you’ve copied from the West
Hey, you‘ve picked up
You have been influenced
Therefore you are not so good

I think
It is a struggle to negotiate
I ,I ,I think
Blablabla
Doing avant-garde art
Or doing net art
Or doing something with conceptualism
Or blablabla

You have been influenced
Therefore you are not so good
This whole business of having -isms
How strong are the paradigms
Walter Benjamin,
“Art in the Age of Mass Reproduction“
How strong are the paradigms
It just doesn’t work
How strong are the paradigms
It just doesn’t
It just doesn’t
It just doesn’t work

I think
The in-between thing
I, I, I think
Conceptualism
Or blablabla

I really don’t want
To fit into any of these brackets
You want to make something “in“
Because you want to make something “out“
It has to do with making fashion
And making fashion is
To make something “in“

I think
The aim is experience
I think
It is a struggle to negotiate
I think
The in-between thing
I, I, I think
Conceptualism
Or blablabla

A lot of people brand me as a conceptual artist
It just doesn’t work