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Catalogue
- Year
- 1969
- Dimensions
- 3:51 min.
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Nalini Malani
Artist
Nalini Malani is an Indian artist working across video, installation, and drawing to address themes of communal violence, memory, and displacement. Since the 1980s, her practice has engaged with the aftermath of partition, religious conflict, and the politics of representation in postwar and contemporary South Asia. Her video installations, often incorporating architectural elements and layered projections, create immersive environments that demand sustained attention to historical trauma and its psychological residue. Malani's work resists didacticism, instead building meaning through formal complexity and temporal layering.
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Mother India: Transactions in the Construction of Pain
2005 · Five-channel video (color, sound)
Gamepieces
2003 · Four-channel video/shadow play (color, sound: 12 min) and synthetic polymer paint on six Lexan cylinders
Memory: Record/Erase
1996 · Standard-definition video (color, sound)
Hieroglyphs of Lohar Chawl
1991 · Artist's book
Intestines of the Machine Age
1970 · Gelatin silver print, printed 2015
Mushroom Cloud
1970 · Gelatin silver print, printed 2015
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- Nalini Malani
- Year
- 1969
- Dimensions
- 3:51 min.
- Watts ID
- WW-1969-M112031
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- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
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- moma
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