Gauri
Sharma

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.