Winner of the 2025 Sharjah Biennial Prize, Pallavi Paul is among the foremost contemporary artists of her generation from India. Working across film, installation, drawing, photography and writing, Paul interrogates how “truth” is produced and contested in public life. Her multimedia practice treats documentary not just as an image or a film, but as a material ecosystem, a web of relationships, a framework for thinking, and an embodied sensory experience.
Pallavi's work was first exhibited in Aotearoa New Zealand as part of the exhibition How to Live Together (2019), curated by Balamohan Shingade. She arrives in Tāmaki Makaurau for the first time in February 2026 for a four-week residency supported by Satellites and Te Tuhi towards her first major solo exhibition in Aotearoa later this year.
She is joined by writer and Spoor Books co-founder Balamohan for a discussion of her practice, and a conversation spanning love, language and literature, and the ways the dead remain among the living.
Refreshments will be provided, and a curated selection of books from South Asia will be available for purchase from Spoor Books.
→ This event is presented in collaboration with Satellites and Spoor Books.