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; she would pursue 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 at the Arario Gallery, Malani has combined elements from her recent solo shows at the National Gallery, in London, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. —Elena Clavarino