Nalini Malani Livres

A pioneering artist in film, photography, video art and performance, Indian artist Nalini Malani is a transition figure between the modern and contemporary art of her country. Her work, which criticizes the political situation in India, is based not only on an iconography typical of the subcontinent’s culture, but also on Western artistic and literary tradition. The Centre Pompidou is staging France’s first retrospective of the Indian artist Nalini Malani. In the exhibition as well as the corresponding catalogue, the artist presents works from 1969-2017, covering almost five decades of her oeuvre. On this occasion, she also reactivates a spectacular work from the museum’s collections: the “video shadow theatre” Remembering Mad Meg (2007). Through this circuit Nalini Malani evokes the concepts underlying her work: utopias, dystopia, and her vision of India and the position of women throughout the world. Exhibition: 18.10.2017-8.1.2018, Centre Pompidou, Paris (Part I); 17.9.2018–6.1.2019, Castello di Rivoli, Turin (Part II)

Arjun Appadurai’s reflections on Gandhi’s ideas of non-violence are augmented by Nalini Malani’s drawings.

In a unique collaborative retrospective, the museums Castello di Rivoli and Centre Pompidou have featured the transnational two-part exhibition Nalini Malani: The Rebellion of the Dead, Retrospective 1969-2018 . The catalogue of Part II contains three new articles, the descriptions of each of the artworks, an extensive and richly illustrated exhibition list, bibliography and biography, compiled in collaboration with the archive of the artist. Together catalogue of Part I and Part II form a seminal document on Nalini Malani as the pioneering politically engaged artist in film, photography, video art and performance, between the modern and contemporary art of India along with her positioning as a globally respected senior female artist with her own language which excels in her widely known video/shadow plays. Exhibition: 17.9.2018–6.1.2019, Castello di Rivoli, Turin