THE WIND IN YOUR BODY IS JUST VISITING, YOUR BREATH WILL SOON BE THUNDER

EXHIBITION IN THE FRAMEWORK OF FORUM EXPANDED AT BERLINALE

WITH Pallavi Paul

SOFT-OPENING 09.02.2022 15:00–22:00
ON SHOW 10.02.–06.03.2022 DAILY 14:00–19:00
FREE ENTRY Donations welcome

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How can this condition of breathlessness and suffocation that now defines the act of breathing, beyond its biological aspect, be visualized and translated through the medium of film? In the exhibition THE WIND IN YOUR BODY IS JUST VISITING, YOUR BREATH WILL SOON BE THUNDER, the artist and filmmaker, Pallavi Paul constructs a constellation of argumentative fragments spread throughout the exhibition space that mimic the ebb and flow of the gradual cessation of breath. Extracting strands, the foundations of which lie in the usurpation of breath, she draws parallels between multiple seemingly unconnected events from the past and the present, such as Germany’s first use of poison gas and invention of chemical warfare in WWI followed by its abundant use in WWII as well as Indian caste politics. She has gleaned scientific descriptions of medical records that describe the affliction and researched meditation practices that increase the capacity of breathing. By digging into obscured archives that recount police brutality and conducting interviews with pyre-burners describing the smoke and smell that rises from the burning pyres.

Paul’s practice is invested in excavating the obscured from what is known and established, in the reconstitution of the truth by emphasizing the tension between representation and countenance where she continues to challenge the aesthetic detachment between the filmic and the world. In her process of filming, دم is that significant and inevitable moment between the lived, felt, and expired, where she resolves this detachment by pulling these fragments into a coherent description of what entails breathing now.

THE WIND IN YOUR BODY IS JUST VISITING, YOUR BREATH WILL SOON BE THUNDER is part of a series of solo exhibitions by SAVVY Contemporary in collaboration with Berlinale's Forum Expanded inviting filmmakers to present research materials from their archives as a means of complementing filmic practices: extra footage, objects, texts, notes collected in the process of filmmaking. In the process of filmmaking, sometimes hundreds of hours of filmed materials are edited down to create the final length of the film. The notion of "killing your darlings" is a method of elimination. But the crucial question is where do the darlings go after being killed? In previous iterations, we sought to resurrect the darlings in an effort to relive the archive and deliberated on the possibility of the three dimensionality of the film screen within the exhibition space. In the current iteration, Pallavi Paul is reversing the process and sharing her extensive research that is on its journey of becoming, by nurturing the darlings she creates a constellation of arguments spread throughout the exhibition space, where traversing and tying them together equals the duration of a film.

PALLAVI PAUL is a New Delhi based visual artist and film scholar. Her practice interrogates how the idea of “truth” is produced and argued in public life. Paul is particularly interested in the tension between the document and its aesthetic utterance – the documentary. She has received her PhD in Film Studies from the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her work has been exhibited in venues including Tate Modern, London (2013); AV Festival, New Castle (2018, 2016); Beirut Art Centre, Lebanon (2018); SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin (2019); Contour Biennale, Mechelen (2017); New Alphabet School, HKW Berlin (2020); The Rubin Museum, New York (2019). She currently lives in Berlin as visual arts fellow in the Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD.

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Die deutschsprachige Ausstellungsankündigung findet Ihr hier:
http://savvy-contemporary.com/.../2022/the-wind-in-your-body

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THE WIND IN YOUR BODY IS JUST VISITING, YOUR BREATH WILL SOON BE THUNDER is supported by the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program with funds from the Federal Foreign Office and the Schering Stiftung. The exhibition is presented within the program of the 17th Forum Expanded | 72nd Berlinale.