Nalini Malani: Splitting the Other. Retrospective 1992–2009

One of the most important contemporary artists working in India today, Nalini Malani (born 1946) employs painting, video installation, shadow play and theater-oriented works to envisage the rapidly changing political and economic situation of South Asia and the place of women within society. Mobilizing a cross-cultural and cross-epochal cast of female archetypes — from Hindu figures such Radha and Sita to such Western icons as Medea, Cassandra and Lewis Carroll's Alice — and addressing topics including war, fanaticism, economic development and environmental destruction, she melds the global with the local, the universal with the specific, narrativity with metanarrativity.