Archive 2012-13
Neha Choksi
- Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
- Start: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 10:00:00 BST
- End: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:00:00 BST
Neha Choksi was born in the United States and raised in India. Choksi was formally educated in the Fine Arts and Indo-European philology, receiving her MA in Classics from Columbia University, New York in 2000 and her dual BAs in Greek and in Art from the University of California, Los Angeles In 1997.
Neha Choksi’s oeuvre presents a materially bound search for various forms of absences (and absenting and emptying). Whether sculpture, video, photography or performance, her art takes matter apart in substance and form, in metaphor and media. Her art focuses presence through reduction and erasure in order to lay bare the longing and liberation accompanying physical and temporal losses. The work often has a poetic and absurd sense, touched with the tragi-comic. The productive tension between materialist impulses and mental constructs endows her work with a melancholy born of the impossible desire to be immaterial.
A video work from her Iceboat performance was recently commissioned by Tate Media for Random Acts on Channel 4. She is the first recipient of the Khoj TippingPoint India Commission, and will be working with a solar scientist at the astrophysics institute on a new project on the sunset, eclipse, and solar weather. Neha is a contributing editor for X-TRA, a critical arts journal published in Los Angeles. She is represented by Project 88 in Mumbai. She lives and works in Mumbai.