Pallavi Paul is a filmmaker, film scholar and artist based in New Delhi. Her practice speaks to poetic exploration of cultural histories, questioning the limits of speculation and facticity and evidence. Paul is also engaged in thinking about ideas of the archive, tensions between document and documentary and the implication of trace within these openings. She has received her PhD in Film Studies from the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Paul’s film, ‘The Blind Rabbit’ premiered at the International Film Festival of Rotterdam in 2020. Paul’s work has been exhibited in venues including Tate Modern, London (2013); AV Festival, New Castle (2018, 2016), Beirut Art Centre, Lebanon (2018), Savvy Contemporary (2019), Contour Biennale, Mechelen (2017), New Alphabet School, HKW (2020). Her most recent solo exhibition 'How Love Moves' is on view at Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin.
Research Focus
Pallavi’s recent work looks at death as the porous, shifting and sometimes even generative gap between the living and the departed. The project at Alserkal Arts Foundation will seek to extend this enquiry, across the prescience of the desert and rituals of mourning, remembering and forgetting.
October 16, 2024
