The Rice House

Six inverted wooden ploughs are tied together to make the skeleton of a storage house for rice. With no land to till and no rice to harvest, ploughs no longer in use are used to make a memorial that is intended to disturb our willful amnesia..This work derives from Probir Gupta’s long-term engagement with human rights groups concerned with those who are displaced by development. Rice House reminds us of the forced dislocation, the loss of indigenous knowledge systems, the threat to the agrarian economy, and the deep, pervasive violence that underwrite our modernity and progress.