Shambhavi Kaul
Shambhavi Kaul (b.1973) 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 mash-up of documentary and fictional frameworks. Re-contextualised in the gallery space, the films disperse and become multi-media landscapes. Customarily absent of any human characters and forcibly de-peopled, Kaul’s work–including photographs, booklets and prints– 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: Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah (2019); Rubenstein Arts Centre, Durham (2018); Tate Modern, London (2018); MOMA, New York (2018); British Film Institute, London (2017); International Film Festival, Rotterdam (2016); Power Station of Art, Shanghai (2015).
She received the Collaboration Development Grant, Duke University (2016); Top Pick at Toronto Film Festival (2015); Mericos Foundation grant (2015); Grand Prix at 25fps, Zagreb (2014), amongst others.
Participating in
Shambhavi Kaul: Night Noon
Unmoving rock collapsed to ocean—geology’s “thrust and fold”—becomes the unlikely habitat for two actors’ shadowy encounters with sand, waves, night, desert, dread, calm, trepidation and escape. “Shambhavi Kaul’s Night Noon sets up dialectical dread in Death Valley with a series of uncanny shots of eroded, geological formations and dunes that seemingly fold into night skies […] More information →