Dayanita Singh
Indian, born 1961
File Room
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Dayanita Singh
Indian, born 19612011
File Room
Dayanita Singh Indian, born 1961 →21st Centurycontemporaryphotographphotography
Date
2011
Medium
Inkjet prints (5)
Dimensions
Each image, approx: 38 × 38 cm (15 × 15 in.); each frame: 59.7 × 59.9 × 3.8 cm (23 9/16 × 23 5/8 × 1 1/2 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Meredith and Akhil Sharma
In India, archivists design their own structures, whether it be metal or wood, and most of the time also design their own catalogue systems. I find the thought of the secrets and knowledge contained in all that paper deeply moving.
—Dayanita Singh, 2013
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