Onanism

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1969
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3:51 min.

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Nalini Malani

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.

Karachi, Pakistan

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Mother India: Transactions in the Construction of Pain

Mother India: Transactions in the Construction of Pain

2005 · Five-channel video (color, sound)

WW-2005-M111380
Gamepieces

Gamepieces

2003 · Four-channel video/shadow play (color, sound: 12 min) and synthetic polymer paint on six Lexan cylinders

WW-2003-M085126
Memory: Record/Erase

Memory: Record/Erase

1996 · Standard-definition video (color, sound)

WW-1996-M111377
Hieroglyphs of Lohar Chawl

Hieroglyphs of Lohar Chawl

1991 · Artist's book

WW-1991-M100308
Intestines of the Machine Age

Intestines of the Machine Age

1970 · Gelatin silver print, printed 2015

WW-1970-M112432
Mushroom Cloud

Mushroom Cloud

1970 · Gelatin silver print, printed 2015

WW-1970-M112435

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Year
1969
Dimensions
3:51 min.
Watts ID
WW-1969-M112031

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Nalini Malani

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