Memory, identity, moments in time with Nikhil Chopra

Demolishing silos, dissolving boundaries — both physical and imaginary — and looking beyond possibilities, yet never divorcing a certain vulnerability, a stillness that forces the audience to look within, sometimes in terror, sometimes in gratitude.

In artist Nikhil Chopra’s multidisciplinary practice, which engages with themes such as memory and identity, there are neither accidents nor strategies. Only an ever-shifting metaspace where the pendulum decides on a peculiar rhythm, swinging between contemporary social and political concerns, inner demons and the touch of the other world.

It can be tough to ‘define’ Chopra, his art and his mind. After stunning the art world with his 2019 nine-day performance at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York — the first time in 150 years that a con