Dayanita Singh - Sea of files

Sea of Files highlights Singh’s consistent and unique engagement with the archive, both in a real sense (including the overflowing bundles of India’s public and private archives) and metaphorically: the archive as a vessel of cultural experience. The publication includes the essay "Collecting through the Camera" by Stefan Jensen and Louise Wolthers which gives an insight in Singhs remarkable visual world. The associative visual essay “Sea of Files” is shown in its entirety, as well as—for the first time in a publication—“Museum of Innocence (The Madras Chapter)” and other series engaging with the meanings and materiality of archives. A personal essay by Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk explores the lyrical, silent reality of Singh’s photographs of state archives, for him images of aura and melancholy that evoke the “texture of memory,” “an idea of poetic decrepitude and a sense of profundity,” as well as “dignified resistance even when the passage of time makes everything meaningless.” The book furthermore shows how Singh has paved new ways for engaging with photography, be it through humanist portraiture, or her innovative display structures and book objects which recast traditional notions of the museum and publishing.

Jensen, Stefan,1986Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och design,HDK-Valand - Academy of Art and Design(Swepub:gu)xjenst (editor)
Wolthers, Louise,1974 (editor)
Göteborgs universitetHDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och design (creator_code:org_t)

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