The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) announces Nalini Malani – Of Woman Born, a major site-specific commission and official Collateral Event of the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. 

In this large-scale multichannel installation, Malani extends her pioneering "Animation Chamber" series— a multisensorial environment since 2017. The continually appearing and disappearing images transform the heritage site of Magazzini del Sale into a "thought chamber" reverberating with sounds, texts and images on women, myth, and global conflict. 

The presentation is curated by Roobina Karode, Artistic Director and Chief Curator of the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art.

Nalini Malani – Of Woman Born is inspired by the Greek myth of Orestes, who murdered his mother and her lover to avenge their slaying of his father. Though pursued by the Furies for his act, he was saved from punishment by the goddess Athena. Malani meditates on this myth and its resonance in present-day wars, where accountability is an anomaly and women continue to bear the brunt of patriarchal violence.

Translated by the artist into 67 animations with more than 30,000 iPad drawings that are projections of nine video channels. The drawings and the 20-minute soundscape of women’s voices become a layered, visceral, continually shifting environment in which viewers conjure up their own stories from the layered superimpositions.