Pallavi Paul: How Love Moves

The Gropius Bau presents the first major solo exhibition of the Berlin and New Delhi-based artist and film scholar Pallavi Paul.

– Foto: Laura Fiorio

"How Love Moves" shows her early moving image works alongside recent film productions and immersive spatial installations, which were conceived for the exhibition during Paul's time as artist in residence at the Gropius Bau and extend across six rooms on the upper floor.

Film, installation and performance at the Gropius Bau

Pallavi Paul uses the camera as an instrument to question how "truth" regimes are produced and maintained in public life. In her multimedia practice, which includes film, installation, performance, drawing, photography and text, she negotiates the documentary not only as film or image, but as an ecology of materials and networks of global alliances, systems of thought and places of sensation.

"How Love Moves" awakens a variety of longings

Using poetry and film, "How Love Moves" reflects on breath as a planetary language and a continuous process of circulation in the context of global crises in healthcare systems. The exhibition examines illness not as a metaphor, but as an ethical, spiritual and biopolitical phenomenon in Berlin, New Delhi and beyond. Within new film productions, it establishes a link between the COVID-19 pandemic and the spread of tuberculosis in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. "How Love Moves" also deals with the transience of being and grief as well as the persistence of memory - and awakens a variety of longings.

About Pallavi Paul

The artistic approach of Pallavi Paul, Artist in Residence 2023 at the Gropius Bau, can be located at the intersection of cinema, literature and ongoing political conflicts. She uses the camera to question how spiritual, technological and political regimes of "truth" are produced and maintained in public life. In her multidisciplinary practice, which spans film, installation, performance, drawing and text, Paul is particularly interested in the tension between the document and its aesthetic form of expression - the documentary film.

Runtime: Fri, 22/03/2024 to Sun, 21/07/2024

Takes place here:

• Gropius Bau