Artist Subodh Gupta’s kitchen in Gurugram appears as immersive as the spectacle that has come to define his work. Steel utensils cover every surface, from the walls to the ceiling, their metallic sheen reflective of his visual vocabulary. It is also within the ubiquitous kitchen space that several of his artworks have taken shape, from the live meal performances that have activated his exhibitions world over to the very moment of their discovery as an artistic medium in 1998. That’s when he first noticed the luminosity emanating from steel utensils , hanging at his then Mayur Vihar home in Delhi, as light reflected onto them through an open window. Transferring these utensils into his living room, he assembled them into various forms, lending the humble, everyday objects a sculptural language.…