Dayanita Singh: Museum Bhavan (Signiert)

Singh, Dayanita

ISBN 10: 3958291619 / ISBN 13: 9783958291614

Editore: Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, 2017

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Out of Print! In Museum Bhavan Dayanita Singh creates a new space between publishing and the museum, an experience where books have the same if not greater artistic value than prints hanging on a gallery wall. 10 Softcover books in a clamshell box 298 Seiten, 9 x 13.7 cm, 890 g. Codice articolo St 01_27

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Titolo: Dayanita Singh: Museum Bhavan (Signiert)

Casa editrice: Steidl Verlag, Göttingen

Data di pubblicazione: 2017

Legatura: Hardcover

Condizione: Wie neu

autografato: Signatur des Verfassers

Edizione: 1. Auflage

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In Museum Bhavan Dayanita Singh creates a new space between publishing and the museum, an experience where books have the same if not greater artistic value than prints hanging on a gallery wall. Consisting of nine individual “museums” in book form, Museum Bhavan is a miniature version of Singh’s traveling exhibition of the same name whose prints are placed in folding expanding wooden structures (her “photo-architecture”), which she likes to interchange at will.

The images in Museum Bhavan―old and new, intriguingly literal and suggestive―have been intuitively grouped into lyrical chapters in a visual story such as “Little Ladies Museum” and “Ongoing Museum,” as well as more specific series like “Museum of Machines.” Following her Sent a Letter (2008), the starting point for this project, the books are housed in a handmade box and fold out into accordion-like strips which Singh encourages viewers to install and curate as they wish in their own homes. The exhibition thus becomes a book, and the book becomes an exhibition.

Photography, at its best, speaks where words cannot go. Dayanita Singh