“My Reality is Different”
Presentation Abstract:
My Reality is Different: for the majority of humankind the quotidian experience of reality in the past and in the present are different from those who dominate and manipulate world views in an oppressive manner, but the paradigm for a future could be Different. As an artist I believe my path of life in all humility, is to contribute to the advancement of society and humankind. Our future in the 21st century urgently needs not only a greater balance between technology and human spirit, as Kazuo Inamori envisioned, but also a much-needed re-balance within the human spirit. For the last the cognizance of the feminine side, can manifest a new philosophical paradigm of thought that is urgently needed. I use the metaphor of the mythical figure of Cassandra who could foresee true prophecies but was never believed. This female side of the human psyche can open our eyes, and if therein the prognosis of the future is not suppressed, one can make sense of this life and steer it into a different, more humane direction, with the formulation of new civilizational values.
Ms. Nalini Malani will be introduced by Michael Trigilio, teaching professor in the UC San Diego Department of Visual Arts, director of the Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts, and multimedia artist.
Nalini Malani is the 2023 Kyoto Prize Laureate in Arts & Philosophy. She is an international contemporary artist specializing in a broad range of visual genres including video, projection, painting and drawing installations. Her childhood experience as a refugee during the partition of India and Pakistan gives her art unique power to elevate the oppressed and express the voices of the voiceless, contributing to a decentralization of art. Malani’s works have been shown worldwide, most recently in a solo exhibition that concluded in June 2023 at The National Gallery, London. She received an Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute (2010) and was the first non-Western artist to receive the prestigious Joan Miró Prize (2019).