Shambhavi Kaul's cinematic constructions conjure uncanny, science-fictive non-places. Described as creating “zones of compression and dispersion,” her work utilizes strategies of montage and recirculation, inviting an affective response while simultaneously measuring our capacity to know what we encounter. She has exhibited her work worldwide at venues such as the Toronto International Film Festival, the Berlinale, The New York Film Festival, the London Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Edinburgh International Film Festival, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Experimenta India, and the 2014 Shanghai Biennale. Recently she opened Silver Bird, her second solo show with Jhaveri Contemporary in Mumbai. Shambhavi Kaul was born in Jodhpur, India and currently lives in the United States where she is Assistant Professor at Duke University.
Videos and Installation Documentation include:
Hijacked (2017), Night Noon (2014) , Mount Song (2013) , 21 Chitrakoot, (2012), Scene 32 (2009), Fallen Objects (2015) and Silver Bird (2017).
"Shambhavi Kaul understands that there is no such thing as a truly alien world for people raised on movies and television.”
- Ryan Holmberg, “Shambhavi Kaul’s Haunted Nursery,"
X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly