In this #StudioVisit special, co-hosts Levin Haegele and Omar Kholeif enter the home and studio of Gupta that he shares with his creative collaborator and companion, Charan Singh in South London. At the breakfast table, pulling open archival boxes, gazing at contact sheets, the duo delve into the mysteries of what works of art are exposed to the light, exploring the push and pull of history, memory and desire.

Sunil Gupta is one of the most significant artists working today. His art is held in the collections of Tate, UK; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Arts Council Collection, UK; the Government Art Collection, UK; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; The George Eastman Museum, Rochester; the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, and the Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE, among others. In 1988, Gupta was one of the co-founders, of Autograph ABP: Association of Black Photographers in London. Beginning in 2020, Mark Sealy curated From Here to Eternity, a major retrospective that was held at The Photographers' Gallery, London and The Image Centre, Toronto. In 2026, Andrew Nairne will curate a significant exhibition survey, Life with a Camera (1970-Now) at Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge. He is represented by Hales Gallery, London and New York, among others.

Studio Visit is an artPost21 Production in association with TABARI.

Theme tune: Steller’s Sea Cow by CleckHuddersfax. 

With thanks to Lawrence Abu Hamdan.

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Jai Chuhan was born in Punjab, India and now lives and works in London. She moved to the UK as a child and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL between 1973-1977. Her work has been exhibited widely at museums and public galleries such as, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge; Tate Liverpool; Barbican Art Gallery, London; Arnolfini, Bristol; Tramway, Glasgow and has featured in the Liverpool Biennial and the Asia Triennial, Manchester. Her work is held in public collections including the Arts Council Collection of England and Tate, UK.

Studio Visit is an artPost21 Production in association with TABARI.

With thanks to Donald Ryan Gallery, New York.

Additional thanks to Levin Haegele for letting me fly solo, accidentally, that is/was.

Theme tune: Steller’s Sea Cow by CleckHuddersfax. 

With thanks to Lawrence Abu Hamdan.

Additional music provided by Jai Chuhan Studio.

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An intimate embrace begins our episode. Together, we weave through and across a journey that takes listeners via portals of memory, music, and time. First, as Levin and Omar begin to play with the artist’s “transitional objects”— they activate questions of musical history, queer movement, concealed knowledge and the situated site of the body. With Naldi Rossano, they conjure ancestors—from the ocean and the poets—from London’s waterways through to Etel Adnan. This is #StudioVisit. 

Studio Visit is an artPost21 Production in association with Tabari, Dubai.

Produced by Levin Haegele with Omar Kholeif.

Theme tune: Steller’s Sea Cow by CleckHuddersfax. 

With thanks to Lawrence Abu Hamdan.

With thanks to Gasworks, London and Raffaela Naldi Rossano.

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Celia Hempton was born in 1981 into an artistic family in Stroud, UK. She studied painting at the Glasgow School of Art and the Royal College of Art. She is perhaps best known for her intimately scaled performative paintings that interrogate the politics of looking and being looked at. Over the last 15+ years, her work in music, performance, painting and installation has been exhibited widely at museums and galleries including the ICA Boston; the MCA Chicago; the Whitechapel Gallery, the Serpentine Galleries, and the ICA, all in London, and has featured in significant travelling shows such as the British Art Show and the Gwangju Biennale.

Music by Celia and Sam Hempton

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