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File Room [4] by Dayanita Singh — VisualArtsDB

File Room [4]

File Room [4]

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.)
Genre: Photograph
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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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

More by Dayanita Singh

When Chaman took Ayesha from me, I could not bear the pain, so I would go to the graveyard to tell my pain to the dead people and my only friend Dayanita who liked the old Hindi film songs that I sang for her, from the series "Myself Mona Ahmed"

When Chaman took Ayesha from me, I could not bear the pain, so I would go to the graveyard to tell my pain to the dead people and my only friend Dayanita who liked the old Hindi film songs that I sang for her, from the series "Myself Mona Ahmed"

Dayanita Singh, 1998

We have the same gestures, even though Ayesha was not born from my stomach, from the series "Myself Mona Ahmed"

We have the same gestures, even though Ayesha was not born from my stomach, from the series "Myself Mona Ahmed"

Dayanita Singh, 1991

File Room

File Room

Dayanita Singh, 2011

In December 1998 the deppression started and has refused to leave me ever since, from the series "Myself Mona Ahmed"

In December 1998 the deppression started and has refused to leave me ever since, from the series "Myself Mona Ahmed"

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

File Room [1]

File Room [1]

Dayanita Singh, 2011

File Room [2]

File Room [2]

Dayanita Singh, 2011

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

Untitled

Untitled

Dayanita Singh, 2006

To my left is my Guru Chaman, and to my right is my guru's eunuch brother Dugi, from the series "Myself Mona Ahmed"

To my left is my Guru Chaman, and to my right is my guru's eunuch brother Dugi, from the series "Myself Mona Ahmed"

Dayanita Singh, 1990

Chaman tries to humor Ayesha before taking her away. I fear that she will make Ayesha into a singing girl, and I wanted to make her an educated and respectable woman, from the series "Myself Mona Ahmed"

Chaman tries to humor Ayesha before taking her away. I fear that she will make Ayesha into a singing girl, and I wanted to make her an educated and respectable woman, from the series "Myself Mona Ahmed"

Dayanita Singh, 1999

We lie around like a normal mother and daughter, from the series "Myself Mona Ahmed"

We lie around like a normal mother and daughter, from the series "Myself Mona Ahmed"

Dayanita Singh, 1992