Gender and art

Nalini Malani, "Mother Earth".

A retrospective brings together Nalini Malani’s widespread oeuvre — comprising videos, camera-less photographs or reverse paintings.

Nalini Malani, ‘Connections: Memory Record/Erase’, 2013.

Nalini Malani, one of India’s leading contemporary artists, draws upon literature, mythology and history to create art and characters that have relevance across cultures. In 2013, she became the first woman artist from Asia to receive the Fukuoka Arts and Culture Prize in the field of contemporary art.

"Nalini Malani was born in 1946 in Karachi, before the 1947 Partition of India. Her work—which spans the mediums of painting, sculpture, installation, performance, and works on paper—explores issues relating to gender, class, and race in a postcolonial world.

The exhibition features Transgressions II (2009), a video/shadow play from the Asia Society Museum Collection. This three-channel video integrates the folk sensibility of traditional shadow plays with new technology, creating a mesmerizing projection of colors and imagery."

Nalini Malani : Transgressions

On view through August 3, 2014

Asia Society Museum, New York City

http://asiasociety.org/new-york/exhibitions/nalini-malani-transgressions#!artworks