Unit 7 invites you to a conversation and brunch. Shubha Taparia talks about her current sculptural installation ‘Crescent’ with Nicoletta Lambertucci (Contemporary Art Curator, The Box).
Book launch: Shubha Taparia – Crescent
A new publication by Unit 7, focusing on the multidisciplinary practice of Shubha Taparia, with contributions by Nicoletta Lambertucci, Maitreyi Maheshwari and Prahlad Bubbar.
Crescent is a towering extension of Shubha Taparia’s exploration of the themes of change, transition and impermanence, and their dualities in context of the urban environment. A chance encounter with John Nash’s Terrace redevelopment in London prompted the artist to reimagine and recontextualise the interim landscape, taking form in an 18m long, 6m tall monumental work that mirrors the building site. A familiar scaffold structure veiled behind a diaphanous polyurethane wrap curving through the length of the gallery, the installation is backlit to create an enigmatic display of shapes and shadows.
Shubha Taparia is an artist and curator based in London. Her practice spans photography, performance, film, mixed media, sound, installation and participatory art. Some of Taparia’s most recent exhibitions include: Britannia–Pallas: The Twilight of the Idols, Contemporary Art Museum of Chania, Chania (2021); Crescent (site-specific installation), Unit 7, London (2021); Spirit in the Inanimate (solo), Prahlad Bubbar, London (2019); Silhouette of an Unknown Landscape (site-specific installation), Unit 7, London (2018); Prossalendi’s Britannia, Ionian Academy, Corfu (2018); Averard Hotel, Slate Projects, London (2016). She was a finalist of The Creekside Open 2013, London (2013), the Arte Laguna Prize, Arsenale, Venice (2013), and the Mostyn Open, Llandudno (2011). Her works are held in various private and institutional collections in the UK, Italy, Portugal, India, Canada and Greece.
Nicoletta Lambertucci is Contemporary Art Curator at The Box, Plymouth where she recently inaugurated solo exhibitions by Leonor Antunes and Kehinde Wiley. Her work is fundamentally driven by the notion of empathic museology. She combines working internationally with artist development and community engagement. Based in London, Nicoletta has been visiting tutor at MFA London Metropolitan University, Central St Martins and MFA Goldsmiths, University of London. In 2010 Nicoletta was Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London where she worked on pedagogical approaches in museums’ public programmes in the UK.