Video

Saline Notations, 2023–2024

Installation view, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai Saline Notations 2023 - 2024 10-minute single channel video Saline Notations draws on a 1962 British-era directory, The Daily Gazette, which listed Hindu residents of Karachi, who most likely left Sindh during the Partition of India. The work reflects on the mass migrations that followed and theRead More »Saline Notations, 2023–2024

Ruled Paper (red, blue, white), 2022

Installation view, Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland Ruled Paper (red, blue, white) 2022 electric wire on deckle - edge handmade paper 43 x 31 in. I 109 x 79 cm. each Ruled Paper (red, blue, white) are reminiscent of four-lined page notebooks used in schools to practice learning to write. While the straight lines provide a framework, they also convey an impressionRead More »Ruled Paper (red, blue, white), 2022

Blind Spots, 2017-2019

Installation view, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai Blind Spots 2017-19 Thirteen – channel video installation monitors, sculptural sound devices with audio In Blind Spots, Reena Kallat deploys the preambles of the constitutions of thirteen pairs of warring nations from around the world as Snellen eye charts used by optometrists to measure vision. As the founding promisesRead More »Blind Spots, 2017-2019

Enemy Properties, 2019

Untitled (Enemy Properties) 2019 four channel video installation with relief sculpture panels In the four channel video, one encounters architectural structures from pre-independence India that were designated enemy properties and annexed by the government during the 1965 war between India and Pakistan. The buildings were classified thus for their past association with individuals born inRead More »Enemy Properties, 2019

Pause Persist, 2015

Pause Persist 2015 single channel video projection 7 mins 11 secs The Video ‘Pause Persist’ is set within the game of Noughts and Crosses, (also referred to as X and 0) meant to be played between two players who take turns, marking the spaces in a 3 × 3 grid. Games, like conversations involve turn-taking, and here it slowlyRead More »Pause Persist, 2015

Aperture – 2, 2014-2015

Installation view, facade of the Vancouver Art Gallery Aperture - 2 2014-2015 Single channel video projection duration 3 mins 17 secs Reena Saini Kallat’s animation Aperture 2 reads like a cinematic scene turned video game, where audiences are as likely to be captured by the slow and sentimental choreography of a flock of silhouetted birds coming to rest on theRead More »Aperture – 2, 2014-2015

Synapse, 2009-2010

Synapse 2009 - 2010 Single channel video projection duration 09 mins 32 secs Studies say that the eye sees an object in the manner in which the mind interprets it and no two people see anything exactly alike. We create meaning through a mental bridge that the mind forms to complete the gaps. The videoRead More »Synapse, 2009-2010

Preface, 2010

Installation view , Kulturhuset, Stockholm Preface 2010 handmade paper book, wooden stand, two-channel video projection Duration 13mins15secs 28 x 75 x 56 in. I 71 x 190 x 142 cm (h x l x b) process shots of the video, Camera: Ajay Noronha, Editing: Pooja Madhavan and Sruti Visweswaran, Technical assistance: Abhinit Khanna

Silt of Seasons – I, 2008

Installation view, Chemould Prescott Rd, Mumbai Silt of Seasons-1 2008 single channel video projection on sand duration 59 min 30 s, dimension variable edition: 5+AP material source: This was created by Association for Communal Harmony in Asia and written by Ingrid Shafer, 2005 http://www.petitiononline.com/petition.html disputed territory form