Pallavi Paul is a New Delhi and Berlin-based visual artist and film scholar who is showing a new body of work at the Sharjah Biennale, 2025. She has recently concluded her residency at the Alserkal Art Foundation in spring 2024. Through 2022-23, Paul was the Artist-in-Residence at Martin Gropius Bau which concluded with her solo exhibition, How Love Moves (2024). She received her PhD in Film Studies from the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Her work has been exhibited at Berlinische Galerie (2023, 2022), Berlinale Forum Expanded (2022), Colomboscope, Sri Lanka (2021), IFFR, Rotterdam (2020), New Alphabet School, HKW Berlin (2020), SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin (2019, 2022), Beirut Art Centre, Lebanon (2018), AV Festival, New Castle (2018, 2016), The Rubin Museum, New York (2019), Contour Biennale, Mechelen (2017), and Tate Modern, London (2013)
Pallavi Paul's practice interrogates how the idea of 'truth' is produced and imaged in public life. Paul is particularly interested in poetic explorations of the tension between the document and its aesthetic utterance- the documentary. Meeting the camera as both agent and ally as well as a disobedient friend, Pallavi Paul pledges her durational practice and research to the choreographies of truth as spiritual, metaphysical, technological, sociological, political and historical phenomena. Entrenched in the cinematic, the artist’s and film scholar’s multi-disciplinary work – spanning film, installation, performance, drawing and writing – is grounded in the urge of tracing the movement of images atop the upheavals of the world. Situated at a frequency between documentary and fiction, Pallavi Paul’s hybrid practice scratches the limits of vision through poetry and imagination as disruptive methodologies to dilate time, space and geography.