Gauri Sharma was born in 1988 in New Delhi, India, to a Polish mother and an Indian father. She graduated with a master’s degree in Media & Communications from the London School of Economics & Political Science. Her maps were...
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Gauri
Sharma was born in 1988 in New Delhi, India, to a Polish mother and an Indian
father. She graduated with a master’s degree in Media & Communications from
the London School of Economics & Political Science. Her maps were first
displayed as part of a group exhibition curated by Prof. Marta Smolińska
entitled, “Islands and Atolls: the
Mapping of Imagination” at Galeria Sztuki Wozownia, Toruń, Poland (2017). Her
first solo exhibition took place in her hometown Konin, Poland in May 2019
entitled “Ażurowa topografia”, roughly translated as “Gossamer topography.” It was curated by Prof. Marta Smolińska and
some select works can be found here.
Through her
maps, she seeks to explore issues of identity, belonging, and nationality. Her
areas of interest include the intersection of politics and group-psychology as
represented by borders (both real and imagined), and their impact on ideas of
the “self” and the “other”, which have become especially important in light of
the debates surrounding migration today.