On the occasion of an exhibition held at the Gropius Bau, Berlin, March 18 - August 7, 2022; Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, September 11, 2022 - January 15, 2023; Mudam Luxembourg, May 20 - October 8, 2023; Serralves Museum, Porto, February - June, 2024. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Exhibited works list. Ana Cristina Mendes -- Dancing with my camera / Stephanie Rosenthal -- What happened is this / Teju Cole -- Photography beyond the photograph: Dayanita Singh's theory of photography / Kajri Jain -- To play a piece of photography / Ahona Palchoudhuri -- On the photography of Dayanita Singh / Thomas Weski -- Book timeline / compiled by Simrat Dugal -- Box 507 / Christoph Wiesner -- Suitcase museum / Clare Molloy -- Museum of shedding and painted photos / Christophe Gallois -- Cut to cut, real to unreal: Dayanita Singh's architectural montages / Michael Buhrs, Helena Perena and Sabine Schmid -- Mona montages / Ana Cristina Mendes -- Biographies -- Exhibited works list.
Summary:
The internationally acclaimed artist Dayanita Singh often describes herself as a 'book artist.' Singh was closely involved in the making of this exhibition catalogue, which accompanies the major touring retrospective of Singh's work, curated by Stephanie Rosenthal for the Gropius-Bau. The most comprehensive publication to date about Singh's art, it includes a series of scholarly long-form and short-form essays, full-color reproductions, and installation images. The texts situate Singh's work in relation to topics such as Indian classical music, traditions of the photographic, imaginations of the archive, choreography and economies of reproduction. Presenting every important phase in the artist's oeuvre, it also enters Singh's archive to include never-before-seen early works from the 1980s, a new series of montages and the works Let's see, Museum of Chance, Museum of Shedding, I am as I am, Go Away Closer and Box 507, among others.
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