
Sakshi Gupta, Freedom is Everything, 2007, plywood, metal scrap, 360cm x 210cm

Sakshi Gupta, No Title, 2012 – 2013, from “Become the Wind”, metal mesh, scrap metal, 328 x 262 x 133 cm

Sakshi Gupta, Landscape of Waking Memories (detail), 2007, steel wire, mesh and chicken feathers, 213 x 138 x 25 cm

Sakshi Gupta, No Title, 2008, metal scrap, gears, motors, 163 x 60 x 88 cm
Sakshi Gupta has participated in Indian Highway several times as the exhibition has been shown across the world. Indian Highway brings together thirty artists who have made a significant contribution to the Indian art world such as MF Husain, Bharti Kher and Subodh Gupta. The name Indian Highway refers to the roads as a symbol for rural to urban migration and as one of the few connection factors between rural and urban India which differ vastly. The theme fitted in perfectly with Sakshi’s modus operandi, as Sakshi builds contemplative sculptures and site-specific installations out of a various kinds of industrial waste and scrap to signify a transition between the industrial world of everyday reality to a lighter, transient and ephemeral world of contemplation for shaping up of the future. The aspiration of the youth/ migrant comes out poignantly in Sakshi’s artwork amidst the cynicism of everyday habit represented by industrial scrap.

Indian Highway, 2012, cover