Urban spaces, identity and contemporary Indian art : the works of Nikhil Chopra and Zarina Bhimji

Vol.38,No.1(2017)

Abstract
This communication focuses on the study of the production of two artists (one Indian, the other of Indian descends): Nikhil Chopra and Zarina Bhimji. In India, where the communal affiliation is important for the construction of the self, both artists make connections between the urban place and the individual identity. Nikhil Chopra questions the different faces of his own identity (in particular his colonial background) as well as the multiple identities of the cities, inside of which he performed. Zarina Bhimji puts her diaspora conditions in the center of her artistic production. She ties relationship between her different cultures. The representations of the trauma of the exodus are recurring figures in her films. By interrogating the urban spaces, these two artists challenge the boundaries of the fixed notions of "individual", "culture" and "community". The cultural entities are never given but should be built and reinterpreted.

Keywords:
art contemporain; contemporary art; art of the diaspora; visual arts; art video; postcolonial studies; art history; non-western artistic modernity; performance

Pages:
163–176
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