Voices in my Head

Since Allana- Chaudhary has done away with the actor,when one enters the room,lit by an iridescent light box,there’s only Yoko Ono’s text on the wall: “Go on transforming a square canvas in your head until it becomes a circle.” There is a blank canvas on the floor,making room for some imaginative play. Then a recorded voice summons you to the next room,which is lit by partly concealed yellow tube-lights. Here one is surrounded by text on acrylic-sheet walls. The booming baritone holds forth on factories and how they never stop working,“no death stops them not even their own,” it emphasises.

Allana- Chaudhary ,who has been working within the two disciplines of theatre and art,manages to create a surreal experience,but it would be disappointing if it was just that. What she manages in this piece is to create a space for reflection,so it is not just the monologues or the light or the text,but it is all of these and something more— the viewers own subjectivity that is evoked. “Through the installation I hope to map somewhat parallel trajectories that have emerged over time in my work— the movement from actor to space and from personal tragedy to social history,” says Allana- Chaudhary,who has also made site-specific installations for Shakespeare’s Macbeth for the Korea Theatre Directors Association,in Seoul,2008 and Roland Schimmelphennig’s Arabian Nights in 2007.

The exhibition is on till October 1. For details contact: 65655873