Bharti Lalwani ft. Vishal Khandelwal
Bharti Lalwani is an art critic and perfumer based in Pune, India. While she has produced writing on international art, much of her criticism is focused on contemporary art of Southeast Asia. Having spent over twenty years of her life in Lagos, Nigeria, Bharti has moved across several countries and career paths. She established Litrahb Perfumery in 2018 to explore a new language of fragrance and flavour as extended mediums of her critique. In 2021, she launched ‘Bagh-e Hind: Scent Translations of Mughal and Rajput garden-paintings’ - A mammoth research project and exhibition that explores the olfactory landscape of Mughal-era India, developed in collaboration with Dr. Nicolas Roth, scholar of early modern South Asia
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Bharti will give a curatorial walkthrough of Chapter 2: Narcissus, from the Bagh-e Hind project a manifestation of which is present at KCC for KOQAM 2023
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The session will also feature Vishal Khandelwal, an architecture and design historian who teaches in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. His conversation with the artist Bharti Lalwani will focus on Lalwani’s collaborative work with the scholar Nicolas Roth
