{"id":159708,"date":"2023-05-18T10:37:47","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T10:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/culture.org\/?p=159708"},"modified":"2023-05-18T10:38:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T10:38:09","slug":"nalini-malanis-feminist-visions-of-justice-distinct-exhibitions-in-montreal-and-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culture.org\/art-and-culture\/nalini-malanis-feminist-visions-of-justice-distinct-exhibitions-in-montreal-and-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Nalini Malani&#8217;s Feminist Visions of Justice: Distinct Exhibitions in Montreal and London"},"content":{"rendered":"           <!--  <script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n                jQuery(document).ready(function() {\r\n                    jQuery(\".key-accordion-item .key-menu\").on(\"click\", function() {\r\n                        if (jQuery(this).parent().hasClass(\"active\")) {\r\n                            jQuery(this).next().slideUp();\r\n                            jQuery(this).parent().removeClass(\"active\");\r\n                        } else {\r\n                            jQuery(\".key-content\").slideUp();\r\n                            jQuery(\".key-accordion-item\").removeClass(\"active\");\r\n                            jQuery(this).parent().addClass(\"active\");\r\n                            jQuery(this).next().slideDown();\r\n                        }\r\n                    });\r\n                })\r\n            <\/script> -->\r\n\r\n\r\n            <!-- start html -->\r\n\r\n            <div class=\"news-key-takeaway-wapper\">\r\n                                <span style=\"background-color:#4db2ee;\">Key Takeaways<\/span>\r\n                <ul class=\"news-key-nbox\" style=\"border-color:#4db2ee;background-color:rgba(77, 178, 238, 0.1);\">\r\n                                                        <li>Nalini Malani, an Indian artist, has been creating feminist mythological landscapes through animations and large-scale media installations for over 50 years.<\/li>\r\n                                                                    <li>Her work is influenced by her experiences with colonialism, the partition of India, and the observations of female peers giving up their artistic pursuits due to societal expectations.<\/li>\r\n                                                                    <li>Malani was honored with the Distinguished Feminist Award at the 111th Annual College Art Association, marking a significant milestone in her career.<\/li>\r\n                                                                    <li>She currently has two major museum exhibitions: \"Crossing Boundaries\" at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and \"My Reality is Different\" at the National Gallery in London.<\/li>\r\n                                                                    <li>\"Crossing Boundaries\" in Montreal features three large-scale installations, including a video installation addressing a tragic event, a video projected onto the museum's facade, and a performance-based wall drawing.<\/li>\r\n                                                                    <li>\"My Reality is Different\" in London showcases Malani's critical perspective on colonial-era art by animating paintings from the National Gallery and the Holburne Museum, emphasizing hidden stories and the erasure of true sources of wealth.<\/li>\r\n                                                                    <li>Malani sees animation as a universal language that allows her to engage a wider audience and foster open debate and dialogue.<\/li>\r\n                                                <\/ul>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n            \n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For over 50 years, Karachi-born Indian artist Nalini Malani has been mesmerizing audiences with her feminist mythological landscapes, primarily through her animations and large-scale media installations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Malani&#8217;s work is shaped by her experiences with colonialism and the partition of India and is also influenced by her observations of female peers giving up their artistic pursuits due to societal expectations, particularly marriage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, Malani was honored with the Distinguished Feminist Award at the 111th Annual College Art Association, which marks an important milestone in her career.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently, she has two major museum exhibitions showcasing her work: &#8220;Crossing Boundaries&#8221; at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and &#8220;My Reality is Different&#8221; at the National Gallery, London.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Pushing Boundaries in Montreal<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Crossing Boundaries&#8221; is composed of three large-scale installations, the nine-channel video installation &#8220;Can You Hear Me?&#8221; (2018\u201320), the performance-based wall drawing &#8220;City of Desires\u2014Crossing Boundaries&#8221; (1992\u20132023), and a newly crafted video projected onto the fa\u00e7ade of the museum\u2019s pavilion, &#8220;Ballad of a Woman&#8221; (2023).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Can You Hear Me?&#8221; is an intense response to the brutal rape and death of an eight-year-old Indian girl in 2018, consisting of 88 iPad animations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It embodies Malani&#8217;s unique aesthetic of presenting audiences with visually striking imagery while recounting horrific events.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In &#8220;Ballad of a Woman&#8221;, Malani weaves a tale of a slain woman who eliminates the evidence of her murderer&#8217;s crime from the afterlife, creating a perpetual narrative of the self-sacrificial woman.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This work, like others by Malani, draws upon the artist&#8217;s talent for illustrating her narratives with vibrant colors and sharp ink outlines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;City of Desires\u2014Crossing Boundaries&#8221; represents Malani&#8217;s ongoing exploration of erasure as both an aesthetic device and a political gesture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the end of the exhibition, the wall drawing will be scrubbed off in a symbolic performance.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>                        <!-- <div class=\"container-c\"> -->\r\n                        <!-- <div class=\"row justify-content-between\"> -->\r\n                        <!-- <div class=\"col-post-800\"> -->\r\n                        <!-- start html -->\r\n                        <div class=\"blockquote-wapper\">\r\n                            <div>\r\n                                <span class=\"text_quot\">\r\n                                    <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Crossing Boundaries&#8221; is composed of three large-scale installations, the nine-channel video installation &#8220;Can You Hear Me?&#8221; (2018\u201320), the performance-based wall drawing &#8220;City of Desires\u2014Crossing Boundaries&#8221; (1992\u20132023), and a newly crafted video projected onto the fa\u00e7ade of the museum\u2019s pavilion, &#8220;Ballad of a Woman&#8221; (2023).<\/span><\/p>\n                                <\/span>\r\n\r\n                                <div class=\"quot_icon\">\r\n                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-content\/themes\/culture\/icons\/i_quot.svg\" type=\"image\/svg+xml\">\r\n                                <\/div>\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"quot_tick\" src=\"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-content\/themes\/culture\/icons\/i_quot_tri.svg\" type=\"image\/svg+xml\">\r\n                        <\/div>\r\n                        <!-- end html -->\r\n                        <!-- <\/div> -->\r\n                        <!-- <\/div> -->\r\n                        <!-- <\/div> -->\r\n                                    <\/h2>\n<h2><b>Questioning Reality in London<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Conversely, &#8220;My Reality is Different&#8221; at the National Gallery in London is a culmination of Malani&#8217;s fellowship at the institution, where she was the first artist to receive such an honor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This exhibition highlights the artist\u2019s critical perspective on colonial-era art, revealing the erasure of the true sources of wealth, often amassed through slave labor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She has selected 25 paintings from the permanent collections of the National Gallery and the Holburne Museum in Bath, digitized their images, and created animations on top of them, emphasizing minute details and the hidden stories they represent.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Art as a Universal Language<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite the complexities and harsh realities reflected in her work, Malani finds joy in animation, which she views as a universal language.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She believes that her moving-image works allow her to engage a wider audience and foster open debate and dialogue, transcending the exclusivity often associated with the art world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Malani continues to experiment with new narratives and imagery, combining real and fictional characters, creating a convergence of reality and fiction that challenges traditional definitions and boundaries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her art remains a testament to her unwavering commitment to feminist and activist perspectives and her determination to illuminate stories too often erased from history.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":159709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[410],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-and-culture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}