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CONTENTS
1. PRESS RELEASE PAgE 3
2. BIOgRAPHY PAgE 5
3. ExHIBITION mAP PAgE 8
4. LIST Of ExHIBITEd wORkS PAgE 9
5. PuBLICATION PAgE 13
6. CATALOguE ExTRACTS PAgE 14
7. SYmPOSIum PAgE 17
8. PRESS vISuALS PAgE 18
9. PRACTICAL INfORmATION PAgE 25
July 2017
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In a unique collaboration the Centre Pompidou and Castello di Rivoli are staging Indian artist Nalini malani’s first retrospective in france and Italy. Presented in Paris in 2017-2018, then in Rivoli
in 2018, this retrospective in two parts selectively covers fifty years of creativity. In the Centre
Pompidou exhibition, the artist presents works from 1969-2018, including her latest painting series
All We Imagine as Light and the site responsive Wall drawing/Erasure Performance Traces.
Apprehending Nalini malani’s work from both a non-chronological and a thematic angle, the exhibitions tackle the various concepts underlying her œuvre : utopia, dystopia, her vision of India and of the role of women in the world. The result of the Partition of India in 1947 has had a life long traumatic effect on malani's family, whose experiences as refugees continue to inform her art practice.
Her explorative investigation of female subjectivity and her profound condemnation of violence - in its insidious and mass forms - is a constant reminder of the vulnerabilities and precariousness of life and human existence. In her art she places inherited iconographies and cherished cultural stereotypes under pressure. Her point of view is unwaveringly urban and internationalist, and unsparing in its condemnation of a cynical nationalism that exploits the beliefs of the masses.
Malani’s collaborations in performance, theatre and publishing with thinkers such as social-cultural
anthropologist Dr. Arjun Appadurai, actress Alaknanda Samarth, Butoh dancer Harada Nobuo and
theatre director Dr. Anuradha Kapur are testament to her constant seeking of interdisciplinary forms to best investigate and communicate personal and political issues. Her work exists as a
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NAlINI MAlANIHamletmachine, 2000 (detail)Four channel video play, sound, 20’00’Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, ParisPhoto : © Fukuoka Asian Art Museum
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temporal and corporeal confrontation of the past, present and future; a dynamic synthesis of memory, fable, truth, myth, trauma and resistance. In this way the artist has constructed a remarkable new language of imagination and form, and of phenomena and meaning.
Unique in this retrospective are the recently discovered b/w 16 mm films of 1969-76 including Still Life,
Onanism and Taboo that will have their world premiere in Paris. On this occasion, Malani re-activates a
spectacular work from the Centre Pompidou collections : the “video/shadow play” Remembering Mad Meg
(2007-2011).
A symposium is scheduled for Thursday 19 October : « Memory : Record/Erase » that includes the speakers
Mieke Bal, Claudia Benthien, Andreas Huyssen and Jyotsna Saksena.
The second part of the exhibition will be presented at Castello di Rivoli museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino,
from march 27 to July 22, 2018.
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1946 Nalini Malani born on 19 February, in Karachi, British Indian Empire.
1947 Due to Partition Malani’s family is forced to escape by boat from Karachi to Bombay, leaving behind all
their belongings. The imposed poverty, the unfamiliar languages and cultures makes relocating extremely
difficult.
1958-61 Thanks to father’s airline job, mother and daughter make a series of international journeys. Japanese
culture in Tokyo and the Egyptian and Coptic section at the louvre in Paris make a lasting impression.
While still in high school, anatomy and botany dissections made during biology lessons inspire her to
become an artist.
1964-69 Receives a government diploma in fine arts at the Sir J. J. School of Art in Bombay.
In the same period acquires a studio space at Bhulabhai Memorial Institute, where artists, musicians,
dancers and theatre people work individually and as a community. She assists theatre director Satyadev
Dubey from whom she learns the value of reusing old epics, myths and stories to make them germane
to the contemporary moment.
1969-72Is part of the legendary Vision Exchange Workshop (VIEW) in Bombay, initiated by Akbar Padamsee, where
she makes a series of 8 mm and 16 mm films and cameraless photographs.
1970-72 Studies for two years in Paris. As the École des Beaux-Arts is not functioning regularly, she is free to
organize her own study program. Buys her own camera and starts a new series of solarized and collaged
photographs. In this period her political consciousness and commitment gains maturity. She attends
lectures by Noam Chomsky, Claude levi-Strauss, Michel leiris, Charles Bettelheim, Jean-Paul Sartre and
Simone de Beauvoir. Frequently visits the Cinémathèque Française, where she meets Alain Resnais,
Jean-luc Godard, William Klein and Chris Marker. Film becomes for her an important holistic concept,
encompassing the visual as well the theatrical arts.
2. biOGRaPHy
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1973Malani decides not to stay in the West but to return to India, motivated to contribute to the making of the
young Indian nation. Marries outside her own social strata and moves from the more elite Warden Road,
into a joint Hindu family living at lohar Chawl, in the heart of the bustling wholesale markets in Bombay.
She experiences this radical change as a sociocultural experiment.
1976With hardly any money she can scarcely continue working in film. Her last film project Utopia, is a double
film projection installation, in which she combines a new 16 mm black and white film, about the
disillusionment in the realization of the Nehruvian dream, with her stop motion film Dream Houses made at
VIEW in 1969.
1978-79Father passes away and Air India grants her one last free flight ticket. Travels to New York where she
meets the artists Nancy Spero, May Stevens and Ana Mendieta at the A.I.R. Gallery, which provides an
alternative means to exhibit women's art. This inspires her to organise a large-scale Indian women artists’
exhibition, in an attempt to give them a voice in the male-dominated milieu. After years of struggle
eventually the small group with Madhavi Parekh, Nilima Sheikh, Arpita Singh and herself travel the
exhibition Through the Looking Glass, in different formations over three years in India 1987-89.
1991-99
As a protest against the rising orthodox Hindutva culture she breaks out of the painting frame, to reach a
wider public. This results in 1991 in her first shadow play installation Alleyway, Lohar Chawl, in 1992 the
Ephemeral Wall Drawing/Erasure Performance City of Desires, in 1993 the experimental theatre play
Medeamaterial and in 1996 The Job. In this line of controversial presentations in 1999 the director of the
Prince of Wales Museum decides to shut down the exhibition of the video play Remembering Toba Tek Singh,
which is a protest against the Indian government’s nuclear tests. By diplomatic intervention the exhibition
remains open for the full period, attracting by default, in this popular natural history/art museum, more
than 25,000 visitors in a period of ten days.
1998
Participates in Another Landscape : History/Life/Language, a traveling exhibition in Japan, India and
Australia with Judith Wright and Kaoru Hirabayashi. This all female exhibition works around ideas that
reject the predominant Western worldview.
2000Not being able to travel her theatre plays Malani develops the idea of ‘video-plays’ during her residency
program at the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, where she makes in collaboration with the Butoh dancer
Harada Nobuo, the four-channel video-play Hamletmachine, based on the theatre play by Heiner Müller.
These ‘plays’, which form a protest against sectarian elements that are eroding the idea of a secular India,
become a success as Hamletmachine (2000), Unity in Diversity (2003) and Mother India : Transactions in the
Construction of Pain (2005), are over the years shown in fourteen countries in museums such as Tate
Modern, New Museum, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales.
2001In addition to her ‘video-plays’ Malani develops a new format that she calls ‘video/shadow play’, a mix of
reverse painted rotating transparent cylinders, video, light and sound that encompass the audience. Here
the traditional perception of reverse painting becomes a medium of superimposition, psychological and
literary references within a complex pictorial surface and spatial environment. Works like Transgressions
(2001), Gamepieces (2003), Remembering Mad Meg (2007) and In Search of Vanished Blood (2012) receive
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international recognition at important exhibitions such as Unpacking Europe (Boijmans van Beuningen,
2001), 8th Istanbul Biennial (2003), 51st Venice Biennial (2005) and Paris-Delhi-Bombay...(Centre Pompidou,
2011). They become part of the collections of the Stedelijk Museum, MoMA, Centre Pompidou, Kiran Nadar
Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
2007Participates in the 52nd Venice Biennial curated by Robert Storr. Malani paints Splitting the Other,
a fourteen panel reverse painted installation that covers six walls of the octagonal room at the Italian
Pavilion.
2012 Participates in dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. She chooses an 11.5
meter high room with curved walls that one enters through a small tunnel. Supported by the Burger
Collection she makes In Search of Vanished Blood, an immersive environment with a six channel video/
shadow play that is shown like a 360 degrees video frieze above the audience.
2013 She receives several international awards such as Fukuoka Asian Art Prize (2013), St. Moritz Art Masters
lifetime Achievement Award (2014) and the Asia Game Changer Award (2015). In her speech at the award
ceremony in Fukuoka she emphasizes that it is her strongest belief that our future in the twenty-first
century urgently needs a cognizance of female thought.
2014
As night falls on 4 and 5 August, Malani's video and shadow play takes over the entire Western and
Southern facades of the Scottish National Gallery. In her extended exploration of conflict and war, this
presentation in Edinburgh is timed to coincide with lIGHTS OUT, the commemoration of the centenary of
the UK's entry into the First World War.
2016 Eminent Dutch cultural theorist and artist Mieke Bal conducts an intense and erudite dialogue between
five of Malani’s shadow plays and theoretical issues concerning art and politics in the 420 page book In
Medias Res : Inside Nalini Malani’s video plays.
2017- 2018In a unique collaboration Centre Pompidou and Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-
Torino present a retrospective of the period 1969 – 2018 divided between both museums.
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wALLS :Traces, 2017–2018
ROOm 1 :Remembering Mad Meg, 2007–2017
ROOm 2 :All We Imagine as Light, 2016
All We Imagine as Light, 2017
ROOm 3 :Hamletmachine, 2000
ROOm 4 :Excavated Images, 1997
The Job, 1997
Mutant I, B Series, 1996
Mutant III, B Series, 1996
Mutant IV, B Series, 1996
Unity in Diversity, 2003
ROOm 5 :Alleyway, Lohar Chawl, 1991
ROOm 6 :Precincts, 1969
Trajectory, 1969
Vestige, 1969
Flight, 1969
Untitled I, 1970
Untitled II, 1970
Untitled III, 1970
Still Life, 1969
Onanism, 1969
Taboo, 1973
Les Manifestations – Paris, diptych part I, 1970
Les Manifestations – Paris, diptych part II, 1970
Mushroom Cloud, 1970
Damaged Survivors, 1970
Le Chemin de Fer, 1970
Intestines of the Machine Age, 1970
For the Dispossessed, 1971
ROOm 7 :Utopia, 1969–1976
ROOm 1
ROOm 2
ROOm 3
ROOm 4
ROOm 5
ROOm 6
ROOm 7
3. ExHibiTiOn maP
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4. liST Of ExHibiTED wORKS
Still Life
1969
Black and white 16 mm film
transferred on digital medium, 04:07 min.
Centre Pompidou,
Musée national d’art moderne, Paris
Onanism
1969
Black and white 16 mm film
transferred on digital medium, 03:52 min.
Centre Pompidou,
Musée national d’art moderne, Paris
Precincts
1969
Photogram
96.5 x 80 cm without border
(112 x 95 cm with border)
Centre Pompidou,
Musée national d’art moderne, Paris
Trajectory
1969
Photogram
80 x 96.5 without border
(95 x 112 with border)
Centre Pompidou,
Musée national d’art moderne, Paris
Vestige
1969
Photogram
80 x 96.5 without border
(95 x 112 cm with border)
Centre Pompidou,
Musée national d’art moderne, Paris
Flight
1969
Photogram
80 x 96.5 cm without border
(95 x 112 cm with border)
Centre Pompidou,
Musée national d’art moderne, Paris
Untitled I
1970
Photogram
96.5 x 73.5 cm without border
(112 x 89 cm with border)
Centre Pompidou,
Musée national d’art moderne, Paris
Untitled II
1970
Photogram
96.5 x 80 cm without border
(112 x 95 cm with border)
Centre Pompidou,
Musée national d’art moderne, Paris
Untitled III
1970
Photogram
96.5 x 80 cm without border
(112 x 95 cm with border)
Centre Pompidou,
Musée national d’art moderne, Paris
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Les Manifestations – Paris, diptych part I
1970
Solarised photograph
25.5 x 32 cm without border
(33 x 39.5 cm with border)
Centre Pompidou,
Musée national d’art moderne, Paris
Les Manifestations – Paris, diptych part II
1970
Solarised photograph
32 x 25.5 cm without border
(39.5 x 33 cm with border)
Centre Pompidou,
Musée national d’art moderne, Paris
Mushroom Cloud
1970
Collage and photogram
37 x 38 cm without border (52 x 53 cm with border)
Centre Pompidou,
Musée national d’art moderne, Paris
Damaged Survivors
1970
Collage and photogram
37 x 46 cm without border (52 x 61 cm with border)
Centre Pompidou,
Musée national d’art moderne, Paris
le Chemin de Fer
1970
Collage and solarised photograph
46 x 37 cm without border (61 x 52 cm with border)
Centre Pompidou,
Musée national d’art moderne, Paris
Intestines of the Machine Age
1970
Collage and photogram
37 x 46 cm without border (52 x 61 cm with border)
Centre Pompidou,
Musée national d’art moderne, Paris
For the Dispossessed
1971
Papier-mâché sculpture
18 x 14 x 14 cm
Private collection
Taboo
1973
Black and white 16 mm film
transferred on digital medium, 1:58 min.
Centre Pompidou,
Musée national d’art moderne, Paris
Utopia
1969–1976
16 mm black and white film and 8 mm colour
stop-motion animation film, transferred on digital
medium, double video projection, 3:49 min.
Centre Pompidou,
Musée national d’art moderne, Paris
Alleyway, Lohar Chawl
1991
Installation of five reverse painted transparent
Mylar sheets, stones
200 x 102 cm (each sheet)
Private collection
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Mutant I, B Series
1996
Fabric dye on milk carton paper
183 x 122 cm
Private collection
Mutant III, B Series
1996
Fabric dye on milk carton paper
183 x 122 cm
Private collection
Mutant IV, B Series
1996
Fabric dye on milk carton paper
183 x 122 cm
Private collection
The Job
1997
Single-channel video sculpture, stop-motion
animation, sound, 10:00 min. Cloth puppet on metal
hospital bed and monitor. Metal construction,
five bell jars with transparent gloves filled with the
basic elements of an Indian meal : rice, lentils, salt,
turmeric, chili powder. Vinyl text on the floor
Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de lausanne
Excavated Images
1997
Painted quilt, rope, pegs, 203 x 157 cm
Private collection
Hamletmachine
2000
Four-channel video play, sound, 20:00 min.
Three video projections on screen: 330 x 440 cm
(each). One video projection on platform of white
salt : 360 x 270 cm. Black reflective floor
Centre Pompidou,
Musée national d’art moderne, Paris
Unity in Diversity
2003
Single-channel video play inside a golden frame,
sound, 7:00 min.
Thirteen black and white photographs of the history
of Gandhi and Nehru.
Traditional wall lamps, sofa
Projection: 150 x 200 cm
Centre Pompidou,
Musée national d’art moderne, Paris
Remembering Mad Meg
2007–2017
Four-channel video/shadow play, sixteen light
projections, eight reverse painted rotating lexan
cylinders, sound
Variable dimensions for the installation
Centre Pompidou,
Musée national d’art moderne, Paris
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All We Imagine as Light
2016
Six reverse painted tondi
Desire/Rupture, Touch/Ashes and One Day the Streets of the World Will Be Empty: Ø 152 cm
The City from Where No News Can Come,
I am Everything You Lost and You Needed to Perfect Me : Ø 122 cm
Arario Museum, Seoul
All We Imagine as Light
2017
Polyptych
Eleven reverse painted panels
183 x 100 cm (each)
Burger Collection, Hong Kong
Traces
2017–2018
Wall Drawing/Erasure Performance
Variable dimensions
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5. PUbliCaTiOn
TABLE Of CONTENTS
fOREwORdSerge lasvignes / Alberto Tazzetti
Bernard Blistène / Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
TExTSSophie Duplaix
Interview with Nalini Malani
If Humankind Wants to Survive the Twenty-First Century…
Mieke Bal
Exposing Broken Promises : Nalini Malani’s Multiple Exposures
Johan Pijnappel
The Missing Link : Nalini Malani’s Experimental Films from 1969–1976
ExHIBITEd wORkS Traces (2017-2018)
Remembering Mad Meg (2007–2017)
All We Imagine as Light (2016)
All We Imagine as Light (2017)
Hamletmachine (2000)
Unity in Diversity (2003)
The Mutant B Series (1996)
The Job (1997)
Excavated Images (1997)
Alleyway, Lohar Chawl (1991)
For the Dispossessed (1971)
Collaged and Solarised Photography (1970)
Still Life (1969)
Onanism (1969)
Taboo (1973)
Photograms (1969–1970)
Utopia (1969–1976)
LIST Of ExHIBITEd wORkS
CATALOguE Of THE ExHIBITIONCoedition Centre Pompidou / Hatje Cantz
Edited by Sophie Duplaix
French/English
240 pages, 242 illustrations
€ 35
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6. CaTalOGUE ExTRaCTS
SOPHIE duPLAIxINTERvIEw wITH NALINI mALANIIf HumANkINd wANTS TO SuRvIvE THE TwENTY-fIRST CENTuRY...
Nm: My own art was from the very start female-oriented. I believe this is natural, a given, as women have
a completely different relationship to the body than men. And women also hold a different position in
society, anywhere in the world, compared to men. The female protagonists manifest themselves already
in my early experimental black and white films such as Still Life (1969), Onanism (1969) and Taboo (1973).
In my later works, I often work with existing female characters from mythology, literature or history, to reintroduce male-dominated history from a female point of view. This one can see in paintings such as
Sita/Medea (2006), Talking about Akka (2007) and Cassandra (2009) or my video-based works such as Mother
India: Transactions in the Construction of Pain (2005) and Remembering Mad Meg (2007). This feminist approach and commitment will continue for the rest of my life. Over the years, women in selective societies have acquired a degree of equality with men, but still today there is too much left wanting. for me understanding the world from a feminist perspective is an essential device for a more hopeful future, if we want to achieve something like human progress. It is clear that we have followed for too long
a linear patriarchy that is coming to an end, but stubbornly wants to assert, “it is still the only way.” Or,
if I wanted to state it more dramatically, I think that we desperately need to replace the alpha male with
matriarchal societies, if humankind wants to survive the twenty-first century...
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mIEkE BALExPOSINg BROkEN PROmISES : NALINI mALANI’S muLTIPLE ExPOSuRES
Within Malani’s rich series of shadow plays, this one [Remembering Mad Meg] stands out in four respects.
Here the projections that splice the images on the turning cylinders and cast their shadows are stop-motion animations, evoking four different short stories of subaltern women in line drawings. In the
loop, coloured projected circles appear intermittently and interweave the images on the cylinders, making
the shadows into superimpositions of paintings and drawings, bringing two of Malani’s media together.
Secondly, there is an emphatic presence of female figures in this work. The cylinders and the projections confront us with a whirlwind of such figures that flash memories of readings and photographs, paintings and drawings that feel like an archive of subaltern girls and women, including
babies and umbilical cords. Young girls, caught in a history of violence and poverty, one with a leg blasted
off by a mine, another, Alice-like, skipping rope as an innocent version of reiteration; a young homeless
girl or protester peeing in public space, signifying poverty but also recalling the prestigious precedent of
Rembrandt that we will see on the other side of the exhibition. Goya-like torture and execution; a monster
morphing into a woman, or the opposite; the series goes on.
The emphasis on “remembering” as an active verb in the progressive form leads, thirdly, to the interpretation of memory as active and ongoing. Here, the act of memory needed is close to the subject because it is that of the victim-participant, the person who is so deeply embedded in a culture of violence that she inevitably becomes an accomplice. forgetting this is the deeper cause of the endless repetition of violence – the circular form is there to remind us of this .Victimisation, collusion, and forgetting together make up the state of human beings incarnated by the
figure of Mad Meg. The work’s title prompts us to remember this figure, on an ongoing basis. What must
be remembered is not just how she was hurt but what she did as well – how her violation turned her into a
“mutant,” another key figure in Malani’s work, contaminated not only physically but also morally. The
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fourth distinguishing feature is the centrality of that singular figure emblematic of violence undergone and
perpetrated, brought to us in painting. No other shadow play has a “main character.” This centrality is not
based on the individualism of Western novels and films, but embodies the multidirectionality of both the
layered narrative mode of the images and the movement between times and cultures that this central
figure of Meg encourages.
These movements, turning between forms of violence, make up the turbulence of the work. As the spine of the show, the uproar contaminates both side wings. Between small narratives and the archival, between myth and modernity, and between visuality and the thought-image (my short-hand for political art), meg, and the artist who created this shadowy version of her, wanders through the world’s storage rooms collecting triggers for acts of memory. The figure raises this question about herself: is she mad, furious, or the one because of the other? If the latter, does violence lead to madness, and what has the
way we look at her to do with that state? These are all aspects of the underlying question about what
needs to be remembered, and how. Hence the ineluctably immersive installation.
JOHAN PIJNAPPELTHE mISSINg LINk : NALINI mALANI’S ExPERImENTAL fILmS fROm 1969–1976
Malani’s early films were made on the brink of two historical time frames. India’s post-Partition history
has often been divided into two phases, that is, 1947 to 1969, the period of secular nationalism advocated
by Nehru, which was based on a politics of integration, and 1970 to the present day, which has witnessed
the increasing importance of Hindu nationalism. In Still Life, Onanism, and Dream Houses, all from 1969, we see the filmic works of a young artist, a woman who believes and fights for the expansion of freedom and progress through the “woman’s voice,” as embodied in Indian modernity . with this malani was far ahead of her time, and it took almost another thirty years before we saw similar female voices speaking up in Indian video art. Unfortunately, modernity became an incomplete process in India. Post-1970, as
shown in Taboo, Malani’s idealism was dealt a harsh blow with evidence of continuing religious restrictions
against women, and both in her Bandra slum project and Utopia the disappointment lies in the failure of
modernity to deliver its promises of equality and betterment for all. However, as the poet and writer Adil
Jussawalla noted in 1973, the women in Malani’s paintings are not passive: “What is new is that these
women fight back. They will not watch and wait and endure with their large sad eyes as women have been
shown to be doing ever since Amrita Sher-Gil.”
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7. SymPOSiUm « mEmORy : RECORD/ERaSE »
19 OCTObER, 2-6 Pm petite salle
The " Memory : Record/Erase " symposium is organized by the Centre Pompidou in the
framework of the exhibition. The four international specialists mieke Bal, Claudia Benthien,
Andreas Huyssen and Jyotsna Saksena will discuss Nalini malani’s work, where memory
constitutes the main thread in the construction and deconstruction of our perception of history
and the future.
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8. PRESS viSUalS
Portrait of Nalini Malani in her Bombay studioPhoto : © Rafeeq Ellias
01. NALINI mALANIOnanism, 1969
Black and white 16 mm film transferred on digital medium, 03:52 min.
Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris
Photo : © Nalini Malani
CoverCatalogue of the exhibitionCoedition Centre Pompidou / Hatje CantzEdited by Sophie Duplaix, French/English, 240 pages, 242 illustrations, € 35
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03. NALINI mALANIDamaged Survivors, 1970
Collage and photogram37 x 46 cm without border(52 x 61 cm with border)
Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris
Photo : © Nalini Malani
02. NALINI mALANIUtopia, 1969-1976
16 mm black and white film and 8 mm colour stop-motion animation film, transferred on digital medium, double video projection, 3:49 min.Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, ParisPhoto : © Nalini Malani
04. NALINI mALANIUntitled I, 1970
Photogram96.5 x 73.5 cm without border(112 x 89 cm with border)
Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris
Photo : © Nalini Malani
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06. NALINI mALANIThe Job, 1997
Single-channel video sculpture, stop-motion animation,sound, 10 : 00 min. Cloth puppet on metal hospital bed andmonitor. Metal construction, five bell jars with transparentgloves filled with the basic elements of an Indian meal : rice,lentils, salt, turmeric, chili powder. Vinyl text on the floor
Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de lausanne
Photo : © Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, lausanne
05. NALINI mALANIAlleyway, Lohar Chawl, 1991
Installation of five reverse painted transparent Mylar sheets, stones200 x 102 cm (each sheet)Private collection
Photo : © Nalini Malani
07. NALINI mALANIHamletmachine, 2000
Four-channel video play, sound, 20 : 00 min.Three video projections on screen: 330 x 440 cm (each)One video projection on platform of white salt : 360 x 270 cmBlack reflective floor
Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris
Photo : © Arario Gallery
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10. NALINI mALANIUnity in Diversity, 2003 (detail)
Single-channel video play inside a golden frame, sound, 7 : 00 min.Thirteen black and white photographs of the history of Gandhi and Nehru. Traditional wall lamps, sofaProjection : 150 x 200 cm
Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris
Photo : © Nalini Malani
09. NALINI mALANIUnity in Diversity, 2003
Single-channel video play inside a golden frame, sound, 7 : 00 min.Thirteen black and white photographs of the history of Gandhi and Nehru.Traditional wall lamps, sofaProjection: 150 x 200 cm
Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris
Photo : © Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, lausanne
08. NALINI mALANIHamletmachine, 2000 (detail)
Four-channel video play, sound, 20 : 00 min.Three video projections on screen: 330 x 440 cm (each)One video projection on platform of white salt : 360 x 270 cmBlack reflective floor
Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris
Photo : © Fukuoka Asian Art Museum
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11. NALINI mALANI Remembering Mad Meg, 2007-2011
Three-channel video/shadow play, sixteen light projections, eight reverse painted rotating lexan cylinders, soundVariable dimensions for the installation
Exhibition view of Paris-Delhi-Bombay, Centre Pompidou, 2011Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris
Photo : © Payal Kapadia
12. NALINI mALANIRemembering Mad Meg, 2007-2011 (detail)
Three-channel video/shadow play, sixteen light projections, eight reverse painted rotating lexan cylinders, sound
Variable dimensions for the installation
Exhibition view of Paris-Delhi-Bombay, Centre Pompidou, 2011Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris
Photo : © Payal Kapadia
13. NALINI mALANINalini Malani making in situ Wall Drawing, Musee cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, 2010
Photo : © Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, lausanne
14. NALINI mALANINalini Malani making in situ Wall Drawing, Musee cantonal des Beaux- Arts, Lausanne, 2010
Photo : © Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, lausanne
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16. NALINI mALANIAll We Imagine as Light, 2016 Six reverse painted tondi
(détail : I am Everything You lost, 2016)Ø 122 cm
Arario Museum, Seoul
Photo : © Anil Rane
15. NALINI mALANIAll We Imagine as Light, 2016
Six reverse painted tondi
(I am Everything You lost, 2016)Ø 122 cm
Arario Museum, Seoul
Photo : © Anil Rane
17. NALINI mALANIAll We Imagine as Light, 2016
Six reverse painted tondi
(The City from Where No News Can Come, 2016)Ø 122 cm
Arario Museum, Seoul
Photo : © Anil Rane
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19. NALINI mALANIAll We Imagine as Light, 2017(Detail of panel nine)
PolyptychEleven reverse painted panels183 x 100 cm (each)
Burger Collection, Hong Kong
Photo : © Anil Rane
20. NALINI mALANIAll We Imagine as Light, 2017 (Panel nine)
PolyptychEleven reverse painted panels183 x 100 cm (each)
Burger Collection, Hong Kong
Photo : © Anil Rane
18. NALINI mALANIAll We Imagine as Light, 2017
PolyptychEleven reverse painted panels 183 x 100 cm (each)
Burger Collection, Hong Kong
Photo : © Anil Rane
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