Based in Mumbai, Malani works in diverse formats, from watercolor to multi-media installations, often densely layering materials, methods, and iconographies from historical and contemporary sources. Gamepieces features six large painted cylinders whose forms suggest both Tibetan prayer wheels and proto-cinematic methods of projection such as magic lantern slides and shadow plays. Malani populates these with depictions of gentle creatures and a pantheon of Hindu gods and demons, rendered in a style that references nineteenth-century Bengali painting. These images are projected onto found video footage documenting the cataclysmic power of the atomic bomb as tested and used during World War II, an issue that preoccupied the artist after India conducted clandestine nuclear bomb tests in 1998. The overlapping imagery suggests a collision between past and present, science and spirituality, violence and harmony.