Neha Choksi moves between Mumbai and Los Angeles. A conceptual artist and performer whose work spans sculpture, video, and live action, Choksi is best known for evocative pieces like Iceboat (2012), a video work in which she rows a boat made of ice across a lake until it melts beneath her. Trained in both comparative literature and art, her practice is shaped as much by philosophy and poetry as it is by visual form.
For Choksi, ecology is not an external theme, it is part of a deeper inquiry into interdependence. Her materials–ice, stone, plants, and her own body–become collaborators in asking questions that language cannot. “Consciousness exceeds our means,” she writes.
In works like Porous Earth, she works with glass and stone, drilling and pulverizing basalt from the Western Ghats to reflect on geological time and human fragility. Meanwhile, her piece Dust to Mountain, a video installation based on a performance, traces the rhythms of erosion and accumulation through the movement of body and material. Choksi's work explores where objects end and people begin. Her art doesn’t deal in neat opposites, like destruction and renewal; instead, it moves through in-between spaces. Even violence, she suggests, is part of life itself, present in both birth and breath. Her work has been shown at institutions like the 18th Street Arts Center (Los Angeles), the Dhaka Art Summit. Her next show opens on Friday, 18 July, as part of a group exhibition at Haus der Kunst, Munich.
