Making Spaces

Elam Te Waka Tūhura is delighted to host Pallavi Paul for a Making Spaces lecture at Elam Fine Arts, on Thursday, 13 August 2026 at 6.00 pm

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.

Pallavi Paul is a visual artist, filmmaker, and scholar whose work spans film, video installation, performance, and writing. Holding a PhD in Film Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, her practice explores the possibilities of non-fiction through inquiries into memory, history, political life, and collective forms of care.

Working across documentary, oral history, and speculative methodologies, she examines how images, bodies, landscapes, and archives continually recombine to push ideas of truth. In 2025, she was awarded the Sharjah Biennial Prize . Her work has been exhibited internationally at institutions and festivals including Tate Modern, Berlinische Galerie, Rubin Museum, Gropius Bau, Berlinale Forum Expanded, and the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and most recently at the 6th Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2025–26).

Paul has received fellowships from the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, ICAS:MP, and the Charles Wallace–Inlaks Sivdasani Foundation, and continues to explore how testimony, speculation, and care shape shared imaginaries and possibilities of transformation.