Evoking death, drama and identity, George Chakravarthi re-imagines 13 characters in Shakespeare’s plays who met their ends through suicide.
His exhibition – Thirteen – marks the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth and is being shown outside Stratford-upon-Avon for the first time. It runs at Bradford’s Impressions Gallery from March 20 to June 14, and is a series of powerful self-portraits presented as light boxes.
Delhi-born Chakravarthi works with performance and photographic imagery to explore and challenge assumptions of gender, sexual and racial identity.
In Thirteen, he assumes the roles of some of Shakes-peare’s doomed characters, exploring themes of ambiguity of gender and masking of identity, often central to the plays.
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