‘ONE ONLY HOPES THAT (THE PANDEMIC) WILL BE AN EYE-OPENER IN MANY WAYS’NALINI MALANI, 74MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRAOn Friday, 13 March, Nalini Malani was in Barcelona, putting the finishing touches to a wall drawing at her show at the Fundació Joan Miró.
Last year, she had received the Joan Miró award and the Fundació had invited her to hold a solo show. But her plans changed abruptly when she and her partner realized Spain would go into a lockdown that weekend.“We rushed to take the last flight out to Amsterdam.
And the following day Barcelona was indeed locked down," Malani says. The Indian lockdown followed 12 days later. But the trajectories were quite different.