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Join us to celebrate the launch of Sunil Gupta and Charan Singh’s new show, The Lovers, an exhibition of photographic portraits that celebrate LGBTQIA+ relationships and the changing visibility of LGBTQIA+ communities today.

The Lovers sees internationally renowned artist Sunil Gupta present his critically acclaimed photographic series, Lovers: Ten Years On, (1984/85), alongside a new body of work produced with artist and husband, Charan Singh, titled Lovers, Revisited (2023/2024). Created 40 years apart, both collections depict LGBTQIA+ couples, as directed by the sitters themselves, photographed in the comfort of their own homes.

Gupta, born in India, moved to the UK from Canada in the late 1970s at a time when the Gay Liberation Movement was gaining momentum and challenging the idea that “homosexuality” was a mental disorder. Over the years, Gupta consistently focused on issues of representation, racial identity, and LGBTQIA+ activism, including AIDS and HIV awareness. 1984 marked the end of his first long-term relationship of ten years, and the beginning of Lovers: Ten Years On photographic series. At his pivotal moment in his life, he began to create portraits to reframe the lives of gay couples that would challenge the prevailing commercial stereotypes of LGBTQIA+ relationships in visual culture.

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