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SUMMARY:A Closer Look: On Contagion\, Image and Truth\, with Pallavi Paul
DESCRIPTION:Image: Paul\, Pallavi. Film stills from Alaq (2024-25). Court
 esy the artist.\nThe third edition of A Closer Look features a virtual ill
 ustrated lecture by artist\, filmmaker and scholar Pallavi Paul. Drawing f
 rom her work across moving image\, installation\, photography and research
 \, the lecture reflects on a set of questions that have shaped her practic
 e over the past decade: how truth is produced and contested\, how images a
 cquire social and political force\, and how documentary might be understoo
 d beyond the limits of film.\n\nMoving between artistic practice and schol
 arly inquiry\, Paul traces an evolving engagement with histories of violen
 ce\, disappearance\, care and contagion. Beginning with The Blind Rabbit (
 2021)\, a work concerned with the fragmentary afterlives of political hist
 ories and the unstable conditions under which truth becomes perceptible\, 
 the lecture follows a trajectory through two recent projects shaped by the
  experience of the COVID-19 pandemic.\n\nHow Love Moves (2023) emerged fro
 m a long engagement with gravediggers in Delhi who buried thousands of peo
 ple during the pandemic. Rather than approaching the cemetery solely as a 
 site of death\, the work turns towards the often unseen labour of care\, m
 aintenance and repair that sustains collective life through moments of cri
 sis. Alaq (2024–25)\, recently commissioned by and presented at the Koch
 i-Muziris Biennale\, moves between scientific\, devotional and architectur
 al worlds to consider contagion not only as a biological phenomenon but al
 so as a condition of relation\, attachment and coexistence. Bringing toget
 her the story of nurse Linny Puthussery during the Nipah outbreak\, the Be
 emapally Dargah in Kerala\, and the testimonies of healthcare workers\, ca
 regivers and communities\, the work asks what remains in the wake of illne
 ss and how people continue to live with its aftermath.\n\nAcross these pro
 jects\, Paul explores how power\, memory\, care and belief move through bo
 dies\, institutions\, images and communities. The lecture reflects on docu
 mentary not simply as a mode of representation\, but as a field of relatio
 ns through which realities are produced\, negotiated and sustained. Bringi
 ng together questions from her artistic and academic work\, it considers w
 hat images do after they leave the frame\, and how they continue to shape 
 the worlds through which they travel.\n\nThe lecture will be followed by a
  conversation with curator and writer Mario D'Souza.
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