Dayanita Singh
Indian, born 1961
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Dayanita Singh
Indian, born 19612011
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Dayanita Singh Indian, born 1961 →photographphotography
Date
2011
Medium
Inkjet print
Dimensions
Image, approx: 38 × 38 cm (15 × 15 in.); 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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When I went to meet Ayesha, Chaman had me tortured by the police. In my pain I ran to Dayanita’s house to make a record of my pain, from the series "Myself Mona Ahmed"
Dayanita Singh Indian, born 1961
I try so hard to please Ayesha, to make jokes. To win her back I even bought a computer, but . . ., from the series "Myself Mona Ahmed"
Dayanita Singh Indian, born 1961
