Neha Choksi 

It is the last theme that Choksi explores through two boulders, with holes cored through their center repeatedly and successively, increasing the diameter of the hollow. Through this, she delves into the theme of “violence”, be it through a child digging through sand or excavators digging through earth. 

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“I have been working with stones since 2016. I love looking at the relationship between something so hard, so obdurate and so difficult as stone and something as soft, fleshy and yielding as the human body. There is an element of nature in my work but also some very philosophical questions raised through material means,” says Choksi. 

This is hardly her first exhibition in Mumbai. The Los Angeles- born but Mumbai-raised artist has been working with Project 88 for a long time. She feels her early life and upbringing has an influence on her art as well. “I like the multiple points of view in my work. My older work, Faith and Friction, comes partly from my mother being a Jain. For this, I had turned over seven bits of video footage to different editors to work with. I also studied Greek, Latin, Sanskrit and Avestan, apart from poetry and theatre,” she reveals.

WHAT: Porous Earth by Neha Choksi 
WHERE: Project 88, Colaba 
WHEN: March 28 to May 25, Tuesday to Saturday, 11 am to 7 pm