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“We have, in some sense, lost touch with the lexicon of the painted image”
In the ArtReview Podcast, artists, thinkers and cultural figures are invited to choose three works as lenses through which to examine their practice and explore critical issues impacting the contemporary art world.
For episode eight of the ArtReview Podcast, artist Nalini Malani speaks to ArtReview editor-in-chief Mark Rappolt about painting, lexicon, India, contemporary art’s slumber, and her current exhibition in Venice, on view until November.
Listen now on Spotify and YouTube. All of the works referenced in this podcast can be viewed below.
About Nalini Malani
Born in 1946 in Karachi, a year before Partition carved up the subcontinent, Nalini Malani is a pioneering force in contemporary art in India and of video art in particular. The only female participant in the Vision Exchange Workshop, founded in 1969 by fellow artist Akbar Padamsee, she made a series of three films that set new standards for the medium. Her groundbreaking work, which can be found in almost every major museum collection, and her privileging of a distinctly feminist perspective extends to her latest work – titled Of Woman Born and currently on view at the Magazzini del Sale in Venice.
Credits
Interviewer: Mark Rappolt
Host and producer: Alexander Leissle @alexanderleissle
Audio editor: Charlie Duffield
Music design: Iona Smith @ic_yonic
Works mentioned
– The Imitation of Life, dir. Douglas Sirk, 1959
– Nalini Malani, In Search of Vanished Blood, 2012
– The Poems of Edith Södergran (1892–1923)
