![]() ![]() The faces of these people, whose labour underpins the economies that connect us across the globe, disappear behind colourful candlestick stock-market charts, and graphic examples of the complex financial systems. ![]() The two-year research and production programme has allowed Malani to work in close collaboration with specialists from both the National Gallery and the Holburne Museum in Bath to study the institutions and their collections, with the aim to create a new artwork.Īs well as the sequences inspired by the paintings, Malani has made fictitious portraits of the maginalised in society, that appear in between the animations. The project is the culmination of Nalini Malani’s selection in 2020 as the first artist to receive the National Gallery’s Contemporary Fellowship, supported by Art Fund. The title of the exhibition, 'Nalini Malani: My Reality is Different - National Gallery Contemporary Fellowship with Art Fund,' is drawn from a phrase often associated with Lewis Carroll’s 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass' in which the Cheshire Cat is claimed to have said: ‘I’m not crazy, my reality is different from yours.’ As a result, there is an endless change of juxtapositions and interaction of the images, allowing the spectator to co-create their own meanings.Įmbodying the role of the artist as a social activist, Malani puts the Western Canon under pressure in these animations where traditional art history and its European figures are no longer the only source of meaning. Pictures by Caravaggio and Bronzino in the National Gallery’s collection, and by Jan van der Venne and Johann Zoffany in the collection of the Holburne Museum, Bath, have inspired the animations in an exhibition which, following its opening at the Holburne Museum, Bath, on 7 October 2022, moves to the National Gallery next year.Ĭlassical stories have been transformed by hand-drawn animations, made using an iPad, that reveal and conceal different aspects of the paintings in both collections to rediscover them from an alternative, and critical point of view.īy overlapping the nine video projections and showing the animations of different length in a loop without syncing them, Malani has chosen to go beyond the Western linear view. These animations are based on an idiosyncratic selection by Malani from famous paintings in the National Gallery and the Holburne Museum. With a fierce commitment to pushing boundaries and experimenting and exploring the possibilities of the moving image, Nalini Malani has created a deep black exhibition space in the Holburne Museum, Bath, with one monumental artwork, 'My Reality is Different'.Įncompassing over 40 meters of wall, the 25 striking new animations immerse the viewer in a panorama of nine large video projections, played in a continuous loop. ![]()
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