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Nalini Malani
Pioneering Indian video art and immersive works about memory and violence.
Dream Houses · Memory: Record/Erase
- Born
- 19 February 1946
- Birthplace
- Karachi, present-day Pakistan
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Nalini Malani
Nalini Malani works with moving images, painting and shadow installations, often centring women and people displaced by conflict.
Early life
Partition displacement
Her family left Karachi for India during Partition.
Mumbai training
Completed a fine-art diploma at the Sir J. J. School of Art in 1969.
Career
- 1969
Experimental film
Worked in Akbar Padamsee’s Vision Exchange Workshop.
- 1970–1972
Paris scholarship
Studied and worked in France.
- 1990s onwards
Expanded installations
Developed works combining painting, projection and moving shadows.
- 2017
Museum retrospective
A Centre Pompidou retrospective surveyed five decades of her work.
Selected work
Dream Houses
An early experimental work exploring the promise of modern housing.
Memory: Record/Erase
Used video to consider memory and its disappearance.
Can You Hear Me?
Combined animated drawings and social commentary.
Beyond work
Collaborative exhibitions
Worked with Nilima Sheikh, Arpita Singh and Madhvi Parekh to exhibit women’s art.
Literary references
Draws on myths and writers including Christa Wolf and Samuel Beckett.
Sources & photo credit
Wikipedia biography and references ↗Further biography and career ↗Photo: सुहास बहुळकर, दीपक घारे. CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
