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Nikhil Chopra, From Land to Fire

Friday 23 May 2025 - Saturday 13 September 2025
10:30 am - 4:30 pm

From Land to Fire (2025) refers to Swansea’s industrial past: it was once known as ‘Copperopolis’, and (like Bombay, now Mumbai, where Chopra lived for years) was a vital port city during the high noon of Empire. Using slurry from the Port Talbot Steelworks, which morphing to a new model of steel production, Chopra alludes to the possible death of industrial Wales. If Chopra’s performance includes tongue-in-cheek nods to the dandy Glynn Vivian (and the latter’s love of dressing up), he will also don the garb of industrial labourers – the coal miner, the steelworker, the factory hand – drawing parallels between ‘Bombay’ and Swansea’s Imperial and industrial histories.

From Land to Fire (2025) is generously made possible by CELF National contemporary art gallery for Wales.

Free, Everyone welcome.

No booking required. Drop in and join us any time.