Pallavi Paul is a New Delhi and Berlin-based visual artist and film scholar who is the Artist in Residence at the Gropius Bau in 2023. 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), IFFR (2020), Berlinale Forum Expanded (2022), Tate Modern, London (2013); AV Festival, New Castle (2018, 2016); Beirut Art Centre, Lebanon (2018); SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin (2019, 2022); Contour Biennale, Mechelen (2017); New Alphabet School, HKW Berlin (2020); The Rubin Museum, New York (2019); Colomboscope, Sri Lanka (2021).
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.