"Beware! The Tiger is Coming", solo exhibition,
The Lab – Experimental Art Space, Tel Aviv, Israel
(Curator: Sharon Toval), 2021
This exhibition examined the socio-cultural status of the artist between India and Israel, through a multimedia installation that includes wall paintings, video art, sculpture and several performances.
The audience walked in the Lab space encountered myths, values and autobiographical stories that build Chanchal's personal identity versus the collective one.
The walls of the space were covered in scripts, posters and paintings that Chanchal conceptually formulated from the love, politics and sex graffiti found on the walls of train lavatories and public spaces around India.
Chanchal built two installations in the space.
The Taj Mahal installation was reconstruction of a model he built when he was 10 years old in Diwali festival. His father, angry with him for making a big mess, crushed the model. The next day, Chanchal rebuilt the model and his father accepted it.
The chapatti (Indian bread) wall-like structure, stamped with TLV Airport border control stamps, through which one can look but cannot cross. It was a barbed-wire border that brings to mind history's mass migrations, and, on the same time, it was a study on the use of 'bread' as a socio-cultural-political symbol in rhetoric and writings.
