In 2020, Nalini Malani became the first artist to receive the National Gallery’s Contemporary Fellowship. Three years later, she’s 77 and her installations still use the latest technology. Malani was one of India’s first video artists. She grew up in Kolkata, where her father worked for Tata Airlines; in 1954 the family relocated to Mumbai, to live in a colony for displaced Sindhis. Malani’s experience as a refugee marked her, and she pursued a degree in fine arts. Her first video work, Dream Houses (1969), used a cardboard maquette and colored lenses to create floating architectural blocks: she was exploring color theory in the manner of Josef Albers and Johannes Itten. For this exhibition, Malani has created 25 animations on her iPad, all based on paintings in the National Gallery and the Holburne Museum. As with Dream Houses, the brash colors and the interactions between images offer new perspectives. —Elena Clavarino