{"id":50865,"date":"2022-12-04T23:00:16","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2022\/dec\/05\/nalini-malani-trump-and-bolsonaro-are-totally-phallic-people-but-there-are-men-inclined-to-feminist-thought"},"modified":"2022-12-04T23:00:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T14:00:16","slug":"nalini-malani-trump-and-bolsonaro-are-totally-phallic-people-but-there-are-men-inclined-to-feminist-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50865","title":{"rendered":"Nalini Malani: \u2018Trump and Bolsonaro are totally phallic people \u2013 but there are men inclined to feminist thought\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 76-year-old Indian artist reflects on the sectarian violence and misogyny that has inspired her work, including the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/newsletters\/2019\/oct\/18\/saved-for-later-sign-up-for-guardian-australias-culture-and-lifestyle-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Indian artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2020\/sep\/28\/nalini-malani-review-whitechapel-gallery-london\">Nalini Malani<\/a> had been looking forward to flying to Adelaide to see her first Australian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agsa.sa.gov.au\/whats-on\/exhibitions\/nalini-malani-gamepieces\/\">survey<\/a> open at the Art Gallery of South Australia \u2013 but she wasn\u2019t be able to. Just as she was leaving India for the opening of an exhibition in the UK \u2013 one of five major international projects she is opening over a five-month period \u2013 the Australian High Commission informed her that she had applied for the wrong visa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said, \u2018I\u2019m not going for business; I\u2019m going for a cultural purpose. I\u2019m not going for a job or anything\u2019,\u201d the 76-year-old artist says, from her second home in Amsterdam that she shares with her husband, Dutch art historian Johan Pijnappel. \u201cThey refused to shift it. 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