Making Spaces

Faculty of Arts and Education

University of Auckland, Elam Fine Arts,  Lecture Theatre 432-136 (Building 432, Floor 1, Room 32)

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 pmArtist Talk: Image After Image After ImageHow do images continue to shape the world long after they have been made? How do memory, care, grief and political life circulate through images, but also exceed them?Drawing on films, installations, sculptures and writing produced over the last decade, Pallavi Paul reflects on an artistic practice that moves between documentary cinema, contemporary art and research. The talk traces the development of works including The Blind Rabbit, How Love Moves and Alaq, exploring how questions of evidence, contagion, care and collective memory have gradually transformed her understanding of what images can do.Rather than presenting documentary as a medium that simply records reality, the talk considers it as an ecology of relations: one in which images, bodies, institutions, technologies and acts of witnessing continually shape one another. Along the way, Pallavi will share the methods, experiments and encounters that have informed her practice, offering a glimpse into how artworks emerge through research, collaboration and sustained attention to the worlds they inhabit.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.

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