The multidisciplinary artist Pallavi Paul’s solo exhibition at Project 88 in Mumbai has an intriguing title: How Love Moves (March 13-April 26). This inquiry is the central theme of all of Paul’s work, which interrogates the material and philosophical underpinnings of love. The presen tation here—an assemblage of prints, watercolours, text installations, embroidered collages, and a documentary—is animated by love even as it occupies itself with its opposite, death.
The display of How Love Moves inspires further questions, all guided by the pieces. Does love move through flowers, those painted by Paul? Does it move through the translucent shroud suspended from the ceiling or within the embroidered cape hung at the corner? Does it move in graveyards, one of which is brought alive in her film playing in the same space? The exhibition seems to say that love moves, and sometimes can move only in burial sites.
