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Details
- Place where the work was made
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India
- Date
- 2003
- Media categories
- Time-based art , Installation
- Materials used
- single channel video play projected in gilt frame, colour, sound, mid-twentieth century lounge, pair of mid-twentieth century lamps, 13 framed black and white photographs, crimson wall paint
- Edition
- 4/10
- Dimensions
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duration: 00:07:30 min, aspect ratio: 16:9
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a - Black and white framed photograph, 25 x 28 cm
b - Black and white framed photograph, 25 x 28 cm
c - Black and white framed photograph, 25 x 28 cm
d - Black and white framed photograph, 25 x 28 cm
e - Black and white framed photograph, 25 x 28 cm
f - Black and white framed photograph, 25 x 28 cm
g - Black and white framed photograph, 28 x 25 cm
h - Black and white framed photograph, 28 x 25 cm
i - Black and white framed photograph, 28 x 25 cm
j - Black and white framed photograph, 28 x 25 cm
k - Black and white framed photograph, 28 x 25 cm
l - Black and white framed photograph, 25 x 28 cm
m - Black and white framed photograph, 28 x 25 cm
n - pair of mid-twentieth century lamps
o - mid-twentieth century lounge
p - gilt frame
- Signature & date
Signed l.r. certificate of authenticity, black fibre-tipped pen "N. Malani". Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of the artist 2012
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 60.2012.a-r
- Copyright
- © Nalini Malani
- Artist information
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Nalini Malani
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About
'Unity in Diversity' reworks an allegorical painting ‘Galaxy of Musicians’ by the iconic 19th Century Indian painter Raja Ravi Varma. It shows eleven female musicians dressed in the different costumes of India signifying unity in diversity.
Malani contrasts the image embodying this ideal with more recent imagery of the bloody riots that occurred in the province of Gujarat in 2002. She takes up a particular history of nationalism, looking at both sides (the idealistic and the violent), suggesting links between them but also mourning the loss of this ideal.
Asian Art Department, AGNSW, February 2012.
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Places
Where the work was made
India
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Mother India (2012), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 11 Feb 2012–05 May 2012
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Thomas McEvilley and Chaitanya Sambrani, Nalini Malani, Dublin, 2007.
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Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts (Editor), Nalini Malani: Splitting the Other, Germany, 2010, 154-155 (colour illus.). Edition unknown
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Chaitanya Sambrani, Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India, New York, 2004, 92 (colour iilus.), 94 (colour illus.). cat.no.18a; edition unknown. cat.no. 18b, DVD stills; edition unknown
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