Pothi Khana, 2018
Dayanita Singhexpand_more
30 hinged teak structures, 80 black and white and 20 color archival pigment prints, 6 stoolsexpand_more
The Driscoll Art Accessions Endowment Fund and the Alfred and Ingrid Lenz Harrison Purchase Fundexpand_more 2020.58
Not on Viewexpand_more
Pothi Khana is the ninth major photo-architectural work of Singh’s career. Its photographic images focus upon a single subject—the archive—as conveyed through black and white and color photographs of the textile-wrapped volumes and papers (reflecting longstanding cultural practices of preservation) in two separate archives in India. The teak structures holding them are designed and arranged as a series of columns, suggesting the architecture of a library or museum. When taken together, these evocative photo-structures approximate the intimate experience of a visitor within a cloistered space of knowledge-keeping, and provide new grounds for contemplating the necessity of care for cultural records and heritage.
Details
- Title
- Pothi Khana
- Artist Life
- born 1961
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2020.58
- Curator Approved
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