Part of the first rank of a creative 'migrant' generation which became
increasingly visible on the global visual art scene in the 1980s, Sunil Gupta
welds together a new language of aesthetics, art, and politics in his work. Wish
You Were Here is more than just a memoir of a life, it is a journey through the
creation of a new visual vocabulary that transformed words like diaspora,
sexuality, sex, migration, home, AIDS, and disease into images that revealed and
provoked other ways of seeing and understanding. Documenting how the intimate
and the personal became political in places as different and as similar as
Delhi, London, San