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Untitled by Dayanita Singh — VisualArtsDB

Untitled

Untitled

2006

Medium: Gelatin silver print, from "Go Away Closer" (2007)
Dimensions: Image, sight: 24.4 × 24.3 cm (9 5/8 × 9 5/8 in.); Frame: 41.9 × 40.5 × 2 cm (16 1/2 × 16 × 13/16 in.)
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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When I started to live in the graveyard, my own blood family thought I was crazy and admitted me to the mental asylum. I came here because I could not bear the false glamor of city life. I hated the pretense that people put on, from the series "Myself Mona Ahmed"

When I started to live in the graveyard, my own blood family thought I was crazy and admitted me to the mental asylum. I came here because I could not bear the false glamor of city life. I hated the pretense that people put on, from the series "Myself Mona Ahmed"

Dayanita Singh, 1998

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Dayanita Singh, 1991

I look like a sad Muslim woman after fighting with my guru Chaman. We went on a visit to the graveyard to show Ayesha the ducks, from the series "Myself Mona Ahmed"

I look like a sad Muslim woman after fighting with my guru Chaman. We went on a visit to the graveyard to show Ayesha the ducks, from the series "Myself Mona Ahmed"

Dayanita Singh, 1996

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Dayanita Singh, 1999

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Dayanita Singh, 1990

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Dayanita Singh, 1990

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My rabbit Moti (Pearl) that the cats ate up a few days later, from the series "Myself Mona Ahmed"

Dayanita Singh, 1999

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Taking Ayesha to school, from the series "Myself Mona Ahmed"

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My beautiful monkey Shabnam (my eunuch brother’s name) that was killed by the Muslims. They said a monkey is a Hindu god and therefore cannot live in a Muslim graveyard. So they poisoned him, from the series "Myself Mona Ahmed"

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Dayanita Singh, 1999

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"

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, 2000