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ART AND HUMAN RIGHTS:
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Drill Hall Gallery |
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Born in 1946, Karachi, Nalini Malani lives and works in Bombay, India. Trained as a painter, Malani received her education in the Fine Arts from Sir J.J. School of Art, Bombay, India, graduating in 1969. Committed to the role of the artist as a social activist, Malani is now a leading multimedia artist, exhibiting extensively internationally. Her politically motivated works have been shown in major exhibitions in India, Japan, Australia, England, Cuba and South Africa and are represented in national museum collections worldwide. Most recently, Malani has participated in such landmark international exhibitions, such as Century City (Tate Modern, 2000) and Unpacking Europe (Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, 2001). Her work Hamletmachine, included in Witnessing to silence was recently shown in a solo exhibition at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. Malani's distinguished watercolour books, drawings and oil paintings have been concerned with unpacking and reflecting on Western as well as Indian histories of violence and oppression, and her humanist paintings have been committed to opening up 'a place for people'. The artist's video and film works are an expansion of her practices in drawing and painting and in her multimedia installations Malani often utilises her own drawings as projected animations. Using texts that have been generated through the memories of people who are often ignored or marginalised in the cataloguing of history, Malani uses her art to draw attention to 'other' stories, with a focus on the universal and human aspects of conflict. In addition, her work has been deeply committed to raising a political consciousness of women's particular social experiences of vulnerability and oppression. For this exhibition, Malani will be presenting her acclaimed video installation, Hamletmachine, inspired from the text by East German playwright Heiner Mueller, a work which reflects on fascism in Europe, but also on the more universalist occurrences of violence and suffering in the name of nationalism in Asia and elsewhere. | 
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