Charge
2017-2021
Single channel video, color, sound
Looped without credits: 1 minute 19 seconds
Single View with credits: 1 minute 37 seconds
PRESS TEXT EXCERPT
Charge, 2017–2021, is a new short video … which brings together the intimate, the natural, and those things touched by human civilization. Framed to capture the movement of her friends’ arms and hands as they hurl stones toward the camera, imagery explodes with each hit. The first set of images culled from the internet and the artist’s own archives of her work, begin with the first photographic documentation of a black hole. The sequence eventually reverses itself to reveal a series of flowers and sunsets, the former photographed at the Huntington Library Botanical Gardens, the latter sourced from a work made by the artist from 2011–2012. Choksi elaborates, “I thought of Charge as a confounding burst of energy which conjures an idiosyncratic legacy of our species on this planet with each successive throw of the stone. Rock is the stuff of planets and the matter at hand at the same time, allowing a remixing of temporal scales and reminding us of the fragility and instability of human legacies.”
—Kristina Newhouse, Kleefeld Contemporary Museum
CURATOR’S ESSAY here.
VIDEO STILLS
CREDITS:
Dedicated to the energies of Aaleen Cassum, Andy Campbell, Anuradha Vikram, Archana Ghangrekar, Bimal Choksi, Carmen Argote, Diane Wolfberg, Erica Stewart, Ethan Barrett, Fareed Curmally, Gale McCall, George Wolfberg, Jay Alcazar, Jennifer Moon, Kamelia Choksi, Kapil Gupta, Kathleen Lehmer, Kristina Newhouse, Kyungmi Shin, Neha Choksi, Niti Gourisaria, Prafull Singh, Qusai Kathawala, Shals Mahajan, Shashikant Mehta, Stephen Lehmer, Tane Kawasaki, Todd Gray, Yakir Jetha, and Zahir Dhunjibhoy.
Image sources here.
RELATED WORKS
Charge was first featured in the 2021 solo exhibition, Uncertain allies.
