Team
Nikhil Chopra
Nikhil Chopra’s (b.1974) artistic practice ranges between live art, theatre, painting, photography, sculpture and installations.
His performances, in large part improvised, dwell on issues such as identity, the role of autobiography, the pose and self-portraiture, reflects on the process of transformation and the part played by the duration of performance. Taking autobiographical elements as his starting point, Chopra combines everyday life and collective history; daily acts such as eating, resting, washing and dressing, but also drawing and making clothes, acquire the value of ritual, be- coming an essential part of the show. Chopra has been performing actively in the international art and theater scene since 2008.
Madhavi Gore
Madhavi Gore (b.1976) is a visual artist whose practice engages painting and performance.
University was a journey exploring her parallel interests in history, fine art, and culture studies. She worked at Art India Magazine, and Chemould Prescott Road Gallery, Mumbai, and taught at Rachna Sansad College, Academy of Fine Art and Craft, Mumbai. Together with collaborators Nikhil Chopra and Jana Prepeluh, she leads THE BODYWORKSHOP, a studio-based traveling workshop on performance art.
Romain Loustau
Romain Loustau (b .1982) is a French artist, who works and lives between Paris and Goa.
Romain studied drama and spent few years acting on stage and on camera. During which time he also collaborated with the French Parisian based collective Mu, specially as assistant scenography to Vincent Voillat for several editions of the festival “Filmer La Musique”. He has collaborated with some rock bands such as “Farewell Poetry”. Now Romain Loustau is dedicated to the development of HH Art Spaces with artists Madhavi Gore and Nikhil Chopra.
Shivani Gupta
( b. 1984 ) is trained classically in the Indian dance form Mohiniattam, she tends to privilege the visual over the performative, beginning from the interior (the body) and moving to the exterior through the camera.
Her practice and primary artistic interest in photography is underscored by performances staged for the camera, as well as by the documentation of live art. These performances have revealed the possibilities of the camera as an agent of personal and cultural myth creation, where photography can be used to excavate the magic of places and their people to explore and present a reality that is not within the framework of the banal.
Thread Whispers Chapter I, Of Rock and Apricot and Mountaintop was shown at the Fotofest Biennial 2018, Girl in a House recently previewed at Serendipity Arts Festival 2019 as part of Look Stranger. She lives and works in Goa, India.
Mario D’souza
Mario D’Souza is a curator and writer based between New Delhi, Goa, and Kochi, India. He is also Co-Artistic Director and Resident Curator at HH Art Spaces Goa.
He is also on the Curatorial Team for the Kochi-Muziris Biennale and is Director of programs at the Kochi Biennale Foundation. He was formerly the curator at Khoj International Artist’s Association, New Delhi, where he curated several exhibitions, including This Must be True (co-curated with Mila Samdub and Radha Mahendru, 2019) and Evidence Room (2017). In addition, he conceptualized and led Asia Assemble (2017) and co-curated the symposium Art – Science – Fiction (2018). His research interests include: political imaginaries; the nation building project; cultures and aesthetics of dissent; public acts of assembling; legal and extra-legal systems; and evidence and truth.
Recent curatorial projects include Antibodies with HH Art Spaces, The Tetley Museum, Tate Hyundai Research Center and Live Art Development Agency supported by British Council; How to Live Together? With HH Art Spaces, Britto Arts Trust, Theertha and Galerie 3000 supported by Pro Helvetia; and God and the Long Road at Museum of Christian Art, Goa supported by India Foundation for the Arts.
Shaira Sequeira Shetty
Shaira Sequeira Shetty (b. 1987) studied Media & Cultural Studies at Tata Insitute of Social Sciences, Bombay. She’s worked in diverse fields including producing and managing large scale exhibitions and learning festivals.
She’s been a producer and partner at HH Art Spaces for the last few years, and has been involved with the organisation since 2016. She was also a a part of the core organisation of The Story Of Foundation, a non profit that was aimed in promoting awareness and understanding of academic and cultural sciences among the general public, based in Goa, India (The Story of Light, 2015 & The Story of Space, 2017).
Her work at HH currently, tends towards its overall organisational, managerial and production related goals and ambitions. As well as preserving and safeguarding its future.