Curated by Marcella Beccaria

The Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art and the Center Pompidou present the first retrospective of Nalini Malani in Italy and France.
Recognized as a pioneer of contemporary art in India, the artist Nalini Malani (Karachi, 1946) lives and works in Mumbai, a city that the artist prefers to continue to call Bombay. Malani explores, through drawing, painting, installation and numerous other experimental forms of art, the cyclical nature of violence in history, in particular that against women, in the context of unstoppable globalization. Deeply political, Malani's art takes inspiration from archetypes present in oriental culture, in Greek myths, in a wide-ranging dialogue that includes theater and contemporary literature.

By involving observers in immersive and multisensory environments, the artist reflects on the devastating consequences of wars, religious fanaticisms and the exploitation of the natural environment.

Developed in dialogue with the artist, the two parts of the Nalini Malani retrospective: The revolt of mortis are ordered in a non-chronological sequence, which instead favors the great themes that recur in Malani's works starting from 1969. In contrast with the traditional meaning of the retrospective term, for the Castle, as already for the Center Pompidou, Malani has created a new Wall Drawing / Erasure Performance, in which characters and iconographic and literary references ranging from Indian art stand out , to Greek myths, from literary quotations including Italo Calvino (1923-1985) and the poet Attipat Krishnaswami Ramanujan (1929-1993), to stories of contemporary violence and discrimination.