M+ showcases new exhibition - Nalini Malani: Vision in Motion

M+, Asia’s first global museum of contemporary visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District announced the opening of Nalini Malani: Vision in Motion, an inaugural presentation as part of the museum’s grand opening display.

The exhibition highlights Nalini Malani’s distinctive methods of storytelling, which have the power to transcend the traumas of national divisions and address collective issues of social injustice. 

Widely recognized as a pioneer of video art and experimental film, Nalini Malani is one of the most prolific cross-disciplinary artists working today.

She is internationally renowned for her reverse paintings and immersive multimedia installations which often combine personal narrative with motifs from folklore, classical literature, and mythology to reflect on the collective trauma of the disenfranchised.

Her fantastical and multilayered creations, which are informed by her early experiences as a refugee following the partition of India in 1947, express a resolute commitment to investigating the effects of war, violence, and the repression of women. 

Malani’s animations and installations, as well as her paintings and performances, feature imagery that feels both personal and universal.

Vision in Motion brings together three major artworks—Utopia (1969–1976), Remembering Mad Meg (2007–2019), and Can You Hear Me (2018–2020)—showcasing the evolution of her practice over the past fifty years as she embraced new technologies and ways of working.