Universalizing and Activating: Nalini Malani in the Words of Mieke Bal

Cultural theorist Mieke Bal discusses her writing devoted to Nalini Malani’s Shadow Plays, multi-dimensional artworks that draw from different cinematic technologies and disparate repositories of images.

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