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Artist
Nalini Malani
b. 1946, Karachi, British India · Indian · Based in Mumbai, India; Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy School of Art, Mumbai
- Reverse Painting on Mylar
- Shadow Play Installation
- Video
Nalini Malani has developed a major interdisciplinary practice around violence, gender, migration, myth and collective memory. Moving from painting and reverse painting to video, projection and rotating shadow installations, she often combines classical stories with the political realities of Partition, communal violence and patriarchy.
Painting; video; installation; shadow play
Gallery Representation
Major Works
- 1998Remembering Toba Tek Singh
- 1999–2000Hamletmachine
- 2005Mother India: Transactions in the Construction of Pain
- 2012In Search of Vanished Blood
- 2018–20Can You Hear Me?
- 1969/76Utopia
- 2009Cassandra
- 2003Unity in Diversity
- 1998The Sacred and the Profane
- 2007Splitting the Other
Museums & Public Collections
Interviews & Writing
- Museum-quality video search →RESEARCH QUEUEvideo
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