Nikhil Chopra performs live @ MCA, Chicago

Live performance: Feb 9-10, 2010
Exhibition on view Feb 6-May 30, 2010

As part of the exhibition "Production Site: The Artists Studio Inside-Out," artist Nikhil Chopra performs "Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing XI" in the MCA galleries. Using a variety of costumes, props, and wall drawings that he creates during the performance, Chopra assumes the fictional persona of a Victorian-era figure named Chitrakar, which literally translates into picture- or mask-maker in Sanskrit. Chopra inhabits this character for the two days, changing into masculine and feminine costumes. While performing, Chopra makes drawings that reflect on Production Site, blackening the walls with his obsessive charcoal drawings to emphasize the studio as a place where an artist's internal anxieties and struggles are confronted and resolved. The drawings, props, and costumes remain in the gallery as an installation for the duration of the exhibition.

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Photo credit: Shivani Gupta.

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