{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-article-js","path":"/artreview-podcast-episode-8-nalini-malani/","result":{"data":{"wordpressPost":{"id":123556,"slug":"artreview-podcast-episode-8-nalini-malani","title":"ArtReview Podcast | Episode 8: Nalini Malani","excerpt":"For episode eight of the ArtReview Podcast, artist Nalini Malani speaks to ArtReview editor-in-chief Mark Rappolt","content":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"ArtReview Podcast | Episode 8: Nalini Malani\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/V3ZYeufOEig?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen></iframe>\n</div></figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Listen now on&nbsp;<a href=\"https://open.spotify.com/episode/0uloP9HhjSMrURqhXvK84C?si=2ind03QsRXOUVKWY7ClXgg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Spotify</a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://www.youtube.com/@ArtReview-Magazine\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube</a></em></p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>“We have, in some sense, lost touch with the lexicon of the painted image”</strong></p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the <em>ArtReview</em> <em>Podcast</em>, 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. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>For episode eight of the ArtReview Podcast, artist Nalini Malani speaks to <em>ArtReview</em> editor-in-chief Mark Rappolt about painting, lexicon, India, contemporary art’s slumber, and her current exhibition in Venice, on view until November.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen now on&nbsp;<a href=\"https://open.spotify.com/show/1N4UsF1fwYzFytBBgxPOVj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Spotify</a> and <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/@ArtReview-Magazine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">YouTube</a>.&nbsp;All of the works referenced in this podcast can be viewed below.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Nalini Malani </strong></p>\n\n\n\n<p>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 <em>Of Woman Born</em> and currently on view at the <a href=\"https://www.labiennale.org/en/art/2026/collateral-events/nalini-malani-woman-born\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Magazzini del Sale in Venice</a>.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Credits </strong></p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interviewer: Mark Rappolt<br>Host and producer: Alexander Leissle <a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/alexanderleissle/\">@alexanderleissle</a><br>Audio editor: Charlie Duffield&nbsp;<br>Music design: Iona Smith <a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ic_yonic/?hl=en\">@ic_yonic</a></p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Works mentioned</h2>\n\n\n\n<p></p>\n\n\n\n<p>– <em>The Imitation of Life</em>, dir. Douglas Sirk, 1959</p>\n\n\n\n<p></p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://backend.artreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Imitation-Of-Life-web-1230x731.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-123621\" srcset=\"https://backend.artreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Imitation-Of-Life-web-1230x731.jpg 1230w, https://backend.artreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Imitation-Of-Life-web-600x357.jpg 600w, https://backend.artreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Imitation-Of-Life-web-300x178.jpg 300w, https://backend.artreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Imitation-Of-Life-web-768x456.jpg 768w, https://backend.artreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Imitation-Of-Life-web-1536x913.jpg 1536w, https://backend.artreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Imitation-Of-Life-web.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1230px) 100vw, 1230px\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://backend.artreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2d5e8137c02cc9b85ae6e58216effa3d-1230x692.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-123620\" srcset=\"https://backend.artreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2d5e8137c02cc9b85ae6e58216effa3d-1230x692.jpg 1230w, https://backend.artreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2d5e8137c02cc9b85ae6e58216effa3d-600x338.jpg 600w, https://backend.artreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2d5e8137c02cc9b85ae6e58216effa3d-300x169.jpg 300w, https://backend.artreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2d5e8137c02cc9b85ae6e58216effa3d-768x432.jpg 768w, https://backend.artreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2d5e8137c02cc9b85ae6e58216effa3d-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://backend.artreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2d5e8137c02cc9b85ae6e58216effa3d.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1230px) 100vw, 1230px\" /><figcaption>Courtesy Universal Pictures</figcaption></figure>\n\n\n\n<p></p>\n\n\n\n<p>– Nalini Malani, <em>In Search of Vanished Blood</em>, 2012</p>\n\n\n\n<p></p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://backend.artreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/f35f945dd1d8f921381814b6b96f18f6.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-123623\" srcset=\"https://backend.artreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/f35f945dd1d8f921381814b6b96f18f6.jpg 700w, https://backend.artreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/f35f945dd1d8f921381814b6b96f18f6-600x399.jpg 600w, https://backend.artreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/f35f945dd1d8f921381814b6b96f18f6-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" /><figcaption>© the artist. Courtesy Galerie Lelong &amp; Co, New York &amp; Paris</figcaption></figure>\n\n\n\n<p></p>\n\n\n\n<p>– The Poems of Edith Södergran (1892–1923)</p>\n\n\n\n<p></p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://backend.artreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/sodergran_totti.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-123624\" srcset=\"https://backend.artreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/sodergran_totti.jpg 1000w, https://backend.artreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/sodergran_totti-600x397.jpg 600w, https://backend.artreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/sodergran_totti-300x198.jpg 300w, https://backend.artreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/sodergran_totti-768x508.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" /><figcaption>Public domain.</figcaption></figure>\n\n\n\n<p> </p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Follow the ArtReview Podcast on&nbsp;<a href=\"https://open.spotify.com/show/1N4UsF1fwYzFytBBgxPOVj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Spotify</a> and <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/@ArtReview-Magazine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">YouTube</a>.</em></strong></p>\n","path":"/artreview-podcast-episode-8-nalini-malani/","format":"standard","date":"23 June 2026","rawDate":"2026-06-23T15:18:38.000Z","branch":{"name":"artreview.com"},"author":{"name":"ArtReview","path":"/author/artreview/"},"category":{"name":"Podcast","path":"/category/podcast/"},"featured_media":{"source_url":"https://backend.artreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Nalini-Malani_portrait-by-Luke-Walker-1.jpg","caption":"","alt_text":"","media_details":{"width":2500,"height":1667,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"source_url":"https://backend.artreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Nalini-Malani_portrait-by-Luke-Walker-1-300x200.jpg","width":300,"height":200},"medium":{"source_url":"https://backend.artreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Nalini-Malani_portrait-by-Luke-Walker-1-600x400.jpg","width":600,"height":400},"large":{"source_url":"https://backend.artreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Nalini-Malani_portrait-by-Luke-Walker-1-1230x820.jpg","width":1230,"height":820},"wordpress_1536x1536":{"source_url":"https://backend.artreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Nalini-Malani_portrait-by-Luke-Walker-1-1536x1024.jpg","width":1536,"height":1024},"wordpress_2048x2048":{"source_url":"https://backend.artreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Nalini-Malani_portrait-by-Luke-Walker-1-2048x1366.jpg","width":2048,"height":1366}}}},"acf":{"article_artist":null,"article_video":null,"article_audio":null,"article_collaboration":"","article_custom_html_snippet":"","article_featured_title":"","article_featured_description":"","article_highlight":false,"article_custom_link_url":"","hero_image":null,"seo_title":"ArtReview Podcast | Episode 8: Nalini Malani","seo_description":"For episode eight of the ArtReview Podcast, artist Nalini Malani speaks to ArtReview editor-in-chief Mark Rappolt. 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