Nalini Malani talks to Ben Luke, about her influences—from writers to musicians, film-makers and, in fact, different artists—and the cultural experiences which have formed her life and work.
Malani was born in Karachi in 1946 and lives and works in the present day in Mumbai. Her work in drawing and portray, efficiency, video and set up, responds to modern politics and human rights points by the language of historic myths, of poets, writers and thinkers, and of the historical past of artwork.
She is more and more celebrated for her installations that she calls “animation chambers”, fusing video and drawings, textual content and voice. They engulf the viewer in environments that comprise endlessly shifting sequences of images and stirring soundtracks—a name to motion when it comes to each their political and cultural content material.
Nalini Malani’s Can You Hear Me (2019 – 2020)
Photographer Ranabir Das, copyright Nalini Malani
She discusses her early and enduring admiration of Indian Kalighat portray, how Louise Bourgeois’ reflections on reminiscence are a constant inspiration, why she has repeatedly returned to Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland, and concerning the pivotal interval she spent in Paris between 1970 and 1972, assembly many main intellectuals and artists. Plus she provides perception into her life within the studio and solutions our normal questions, together with “what’s artwork for?”
Nalini Malani: Can You Hear Me? and Ballad of a Lady, Concrete, Dubai, in collaboration with Volte Artwork Initiatives, 25 February-3 March
Nalini Malani: The Ache of Others 1966-1979, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS)/Jehangir Nicholson Artwork Gallery, Mumbai, India, 1 August-5 November
Ambienti 1956-2010: Environments by Ladies Artists II, MAXXI, Rome, 9 April-6 October
Nalini Malani: In Search of Vanished Blood, assortment show, Tate Trendy, London, 13 December 2024-September 2025.
Nalini Malani’s Can You Hear Me (2019-20)
Photographer Ranabir Das, copyright Nalini Malani
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