"Trying to compete in the economy of attention from the field of contemporary art is a naive goal in the twenty-first century."

In his photographs and texts, ­Calcutta-based Soham Gupta forces the tension that arises between fiction and real-life conditions in as yet unseen ways.

“I don’t believe in progress, no.”

it seemed like we’d just been in some horrible dream

Strangeness is everywhere, but strangers are only where we define them.

“The thing about punk is that you’re allowed to talk about anything. Kids can talk about whatever they want. There’s nobody saying, ‘No, you can’t do that, it’s not punk.’”