SHAMBHAVI KAUL
b. 1973, IndiaShambhavi Kaul (b.1973, Jodhpur. Lives and works in Durham, USA) makes experimental films and moving image installations which deconstruct time and space to conjure uncanny non-places. With a background in editing, her filmmaking is akin to assemblage, bringing together existing archival footage with original shoots in a convergence of documentary and fictional frameworks. Re-contextualised in the gallery space, the films disperse and become multi-media landscapes. Whether including characters or hauntingly de-peopled, Kaul’s work indulges the fantastical whilst holding on to the familiar.
Shambhavi Kaul studied at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad gaining a BA equivalent in 1996 and received her MFA from Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson in 2016. She is an Associate Professor of the Practice of Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University.
Her work has been shown at numerous screening and in solo and group shows internationally, including: Museum of Modern Art, New York (2025, 2018); Melbourne International Film Festival (2024); Pesaro International Film Festival (2024); Toronto International Film Festival (2023); Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah (2019); Rubenstein Arts Centre, Durham (2018); Tate Modern, London (2018); British Film Institute, London (2017); International Film Festival, Rotterdam (2016); Power Station of Art, Shanghai (2015).
Courtesy Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai.
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