A new series by celebrated Photo artist Dayanita Singh is on view at Nature Morte, Gurgaon. Entitled ‘House of Love’, it’s her response to the delirious satisfaction that she derives from the literary works of her favorite writers such as Amitav Ghosh, W.G. Sebald, Orhan Pamuk, Italo Calvino, and Vikram Seth among others), telling a vivid tale of life and how it’s lived the way she best knows how to, through photos compiled into a book.
The suite of works harbors a novelistic approach. Entitled ‘House of Love’, the new body of work is yet elliptical in the multiple subject matters it brings to the fore. She has combined black & white and color photos, for the first ever time in a single series. The images have been shot in India and across the globe, yet hardly any is identified. In fact, all are allowed to be sort of free-floating.
The photos are tethered to one another just by the circumstances of narrations in which they have been placed and grouped (with individual titles like ‘Continuous cities’, ‘Departure lounge’, ‘Being of darkness’, and ‘Theft in a cake shop’; the nine different ‘stories’ ranging in groups of pictures).
Dayanita Singh’s primary medium for the exquisite images and the ubiquitous unifying structure in which this diversity gets rather succinct. An accompanying essay elaborates: “The subjects of her pictures incorporate congested cityscapes and bucolic landscapes. There are portraits of acquaintances and strangers (both spontaneously captured and formally posed); arrangements of household objects and those in museums and offices; the different types of interiors as well as the exteriors of all manner of constructions.”
This element of multiplicity finds a streak of cohesion in proscribed themes that run throughout the project: the romance of travel laced with the mysteries of attraction, and carrying the displaced yearnings of desire.
The solo show by Dayanita Singh continues at Nature Morte, Gurgaon, until January 29, 2012.
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