Pushpamala N

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Cracking the whip (after 1970s tamil film still)
Criminals (after police photograph, Times of India, Bangalore 2001)
Return of the Phantom Lady (Sinful City)
Circus (after
Abduction/Ravishment
Abduction/Captive
Abduction/Cloud Battle
Abduction/The Forest
Abduction/The Battle on the Ground
Abduction/Nightmare
The Readers
Portrait with Bicycle
The Return Of The Phantom Lady
Untitled
Abduction/Flight
Abduction/The Pond
Lady in Moonlight (after 1889 oil painting by Raja Ravi Varma)
Cycling Friends
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Born: India, Bangalore

Bangalore based Pushpamala N is a photo- and video-performance artist who is the subject of her own compositions. In this series of works, the artist ...

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Lives & Works: India, Bangalore

education

1985: Master of Fine Arts (Sculpture), Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India
1982: Bachelor of Fine Arts (Sculpt...

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exhibitions

2013: "Avega- The Passion (Abduction) "- Galerie Zurcher, Paris
2012: “Avega- The Passion”- Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
2012: “...

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REVIEW: Portrait of an artist as an actress

"IT'S THE titles that fox you at first. Sunhere Sapne, Golden Dreams, Dard-e-Dil, Bombay Photo Studio, they read. How do they link into the current mindset of Bangalore-based Pushpamala N.? Her three-in-one show at Gallery Sumukha, on from December 7 to 24, presents the artist in multiple roles - as an actress, an auteur, an architect toying with history and memory." - ADITI DE

REVIEW: Pushpamala N.

"Photography and filmmaking arrived in India immediately after their invention in Europe, which is one reason South Asia has such a long history of sophisticated work in both media. Pushpamala N., a contemporary artist working in Bangalore, takes account of that history and makes it her own in a strong New York solo debut. The four photographic series in the show have links to South Asian cinematic conventions. ''Phantom Lady, or Kismet'' (1996-98) is a takeoff on Indian pop films about the exploits of a superheroine named Nadia, who here wears Zorro-esque attire to rescue a vampy younger sister from underworld embroilment. Shot mostly in nighttime Mumbai, the series has a rich, film-noir atmosphere and a surreal, Bollywood-style narrative structure that can be reshuffled for different showings. As in all her work, Pushpamala N. is chief actor as well as director, and she is a charismatic on-camera presence. She plays both sisters in ''Phantom Lady'' with aplomb, and brings the same qualities to ''Golden Dreams'' (1998), a kind of womanhaving-a-nervous-breakdown tale of romance and entrapment that concludes with the heroine holding an invisible opponent at gunpoint. Here the original black-and-white prints have been hand colored, giving them a slightly antique look, as is true of the 10 pictures in ''The Anguished Heart'' (2002), a story of lost love that might have come straight from Satyajit Ray. The melancholic tone of this last series is also distilled in a single portrait of Pushpamala N., one of a group shot by J. H. Thakker, famed for his studio photographs of Indian film stars of the 1950's and 60's. In this group of photos she represents the seven moods traditionally associated with women in northern Indian poetry and painting -- sad, erotic, happy, angry and so on -- and plays each role with a confounding mix of self-consciousness and conviction. It is precisely this mix that sets her work apart from other implicitly feminist artists like Cindy Sherman and Eleanor Antin. They make their distance from their cinematic models clear; she, selectively and daringly, keeps the connection alive." - HOLLAND COTTER

VIDEO: 7 days in Delhi #5 - Pushpamala N

Pushpamala N (1956) is a photo- and video-performance artist. She lives and works in Delhi and Bangalore. In 7 days Third Ear’s Miriam Nielsen met 7 visual artists from the happening Indian art scene in Delhi. The works of these artists comment on and interact with the city directly - which is why she asked them to take her to 7 locations in Delhi – to the places that inspire them.
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