Pallavi Paul is presenting an artist talk at Elam Fine Arts on Thursday, 13 August 2026, as part of the Making Spaces lecture series.
Artist Talk: Image After Image After Image
How do images continue to shape the world long after they have been made? How do memory, care, grief and political life circulate through images, but also exceed them?
Drawing on films, installations, sculptures, and writing produced over the last decade, Pallavi Paul reflects on an artistic practice that moves between documentary cinema, contemporary art and research. The talk traces the development of works including The Blind Rabbit, How Love Moves and Alaq, exploring how questions of evidence, contagion, care, and collective memory have gradually transformed her understanding of what images can do.
Rather than presenting documentary as a medium that simply records reality, the talk considers it as an ecology of relations: one in which images, bodies, institutions, technologies and acts of witnessing continually shape one another. Along the way, Pallavi will share the methods, experiments and encounters that have informed her practice, offering a glimpse into how artworks emerge through research, collaboration, and sustained attention to the worlds they inhabit.
Making Spaces provides a platform for leading artists and arts professionals to share insights into their practice and ways of working. It creates space for their voices, exploring what they make, and why and how they make it.
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About Pallavi Paul
Pallavi Paul is a New Delhi-based visual artist and film scholar. She received her PhD in Film Studies from the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her work has been exhibited at the Sharjah Biennale (2025), where she received the Sharjah Biennial Prize.
Her institutional solo exhibitions include Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (2024, 2023) and Berlinale Forum Expanded (2022) at SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin. She has also participated in group exhibitions at the the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2025–26), Berlinische Galerie, Berlin (2023, 2022); New Alphabet School, HKW Berlin (2021, 2020); Colomboscope, Sri Lanka (2021); the Rubin Museum, New York (2019); Beirut Art Centre, Lebanon (2018); AV Festival, New Castle (2018, 2016); Contour Biennale, Mechelen (2017); and Tate Modern, London (201
This event coincides with Pallavi Paul’s exhibition, To Be in Someone Else’s Prayer, an exhibition commissioned by Te Tuhi in partnership with Satellites and curated by Balamohan Shingade.