Ratna Gupta (b. 1979) completed her B.A from St. Xaviers College, Mumbai and Graphic Design from the Weighan and Leigh College, Mumbai. She further went on to do a B.A Honours in Book Arts and Crafts at the London College of Printing, the London institute, London. She has shown her works in solo shows at Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai (2018) and Felix Frachon Gallery, Brussels (2017). For Ratna, repetition is sacred. The act of doing, over and over, what has become instinctive, is a way of unearthing new meaning, to mark the passage of time and the metamorphoses of bodies. Many of her sculptural objects, at once strange and familiar, echo this obsession with recurrence and transmutation, though her practice doesn’t suggest a desire for permanence, but instead reaffirms the ephemeral. Ratna's works are all ultimately subject to disintegration in the same way our bodies are—resin may crack, latex might morph, needles will rust, and things will fall apart. She lives and works in Mumbai.