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      The tables have turned A shadow play

      Although Nalini Malani’s practice encompasses a variety of media, including painting, drawing and installation, she is respected as one of India’s first-generation video artists, and for her high sense of awareness regarding social issues and history. Malani’s shadow play installations, including ‘The tables have turned’ A shadow play (2008), expand on the layering that appears in her paintings and drawings. The artist paints on transparent, rotating cylinders onto which light is projected, filling the room with shadows. Referencing Buddhist prayer wheels whose rotations express a desire for change, the cylinders’ revolutions and images build up a narrative of epic proportions that appears and vanishes simultaneously. Accompanied by music and text, the historical, cultural, personal and psychological elements combine to present allegories of political and ecological dangers, with images recalling the horrors of war, the industrial revolution, and the utopia/dystopia that followed. ‘The tables have turned’ A shadow play was presented in an Air Raid Shelter on Cockatoo Island, for the 16th Biennale of Sydney (2008).

      Nalini Malani (1946 –)

      Nalini Malani es una pionera del arte indio, conocida por sus instalaciones y videos que exploran la identidad, el desplazamiento y la justicia social. Su obra innovadora combina sombras, mitología y la memoria de la partición india.

      Biennale of Sydney (Sydney, Australia)

      Como el principal festival de arte contemporáneo de Australia, la Bienal de Sídney ofrece exposiciones temáticas transformadoras en lugares icónicos que provocan la reflexión crítica e invitan a explorar la innovación global.

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      • Title: The tables have turned A shadow play
      • Notable elements or techniques: Light projection, rotating cylinders, shadows
      • Artist: Nalini Malani
      • Medium: Shadow play installation on rotating cylinders
      • Subject or theme: Political and ecological dangers, war, history

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