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Nalini Malani

Born 1946 in Karachi, Pakistan

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A color photograph shows a collage of a woman’s face with light projected on it and four white line drawings of an insect, flora, and airplanes in the four corners.

With My Hands I Give ECSTASY

A color photograph shows a collage of three figures: a standing human figure, the projected face of a woman in a headscarf gazing directly at the viewer, and a human skull.

When the Living Can No Longer Fight—the Dead Will

A color photograph shows a collage of three figures in white in various poses overlaying an enlarged image of a woman's face projected with light and directly facing the viewer.

The Two Americas—That Is I

A color photograph shows a collage of several children and embryonic shapes in white against an outline of a human brain and a projected image of a woman's mouth and nose in tight close up.

The Rebellion of the Dead Will Be the War of the Landscapes

A color photograph shows a collage of three standing figures in white to the right of a larger human face shrouded in a cloth printed with a blue and green world map.

My Speech Is Silence, My Song the Scream of the World

A color photograph shows a collage of two white figures crouching together holding long sticks in the bottom left of a horizontal image with the face of a woman overlaid with the projection of a world map in the center background.

My Hope Is the Last Breath. My Hope Is the First Battle

A color photograph shows a collage of three standing figures in white to the left of a larger human face shrouded in a cloth printed with a blue and green world map.

I—That Is Africa I—That Is Asia

A color photograph depicts a collaged scene of two x-rayed figures on either side of a white outline of a human brain, all is superimposed over a color image of the back of a woman.

I Am the Angel of Despair

A still from an animated drawing showing black outlines of assorted abstracted figures in an active, dynamic scene resembling a parade or circular gathering.

Penelope

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