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Tag: DAYANITA SINGH
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Apropos archive fever – Yesterday I talked about Dayanita Singh’s FILE ROOM triggering fear of chaos, fear of loosing control; a frightening thought indeed. But there is – as always when studying great art – more to uncover. This fear of mine, couldn’t it also be related to a kind of identification; all these documents…
archive fever
I’m trying to figure out why I’m so taken aback by Dayanita Singh’s book FILE ROOM (Steidl, 2013), a photo-book of archives and their custodians across India. The obvious reason is of course the unexpected beauty of her project, the wonderful compositions, the secretive content, the elegant layout – But there is definitively more to be said: because…
What’s your story?
… It’s all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice. To love someone…
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