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Frith Street Gallery: DAYANITA SINGH : Dream Villa - 7 Nov 2008 to 20 Dec 2008 Current Exhibition |
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Dayanita Singh DVM 1, 2008
C-type print 46 x 46 cm (image), 61 x 51 cm (paper) Edition of 7 |
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DAYANITA SINGH Dream Villa 7 November � 20 December Frith Street Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Dayanita Singh. Known for her captivating photographs of the less obvious side of Indian society Singh�s images range from the life of a Delhi eunuch to portraits of upper middle class families to the empty interiors of homes and museums. Publishing has also become a significant part of the artist�s practice: in her books, often published without text, she experiments with different ways of producing and viewing photographs. Until now Singh used primarily back and white photography � Dream Villa presents the largest single body of the artist�s colour work shown to date. The exhibition explores how the night transforms what seems ordinary by day into something mysterious. These lush photographs are saturated with intense colour, they present a landscape which exists as much in the artist's imagination as in the real world; Singh travels to many different cities never knowing where Dream Villa or its inhabitants will present themselves. The empty streets, the arrangements of neon lights and the silent fa�ades have an unsettling and at times sinister atmosphere, this is a place where nothing is quite as it seems - it comes into being at night, when all is lit by artificial light and the moon is just ornamentation. Dayanita Singh was born in India in 1961. She studied Visual Communication at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad and Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the International Center of Photography in New York. Her work will be shown in the Serpentine Gallery�s forthcoming exhibition Indian Highway at the end of this year. Important solo exhibitions include: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston (2005), Hamburger Bahnhoff, Berlin (2003) and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, (2001). Her work has been included in many group exhibitions including: Manifesta 7 and the Gwangju Biennial (2008) Les Rencontres D'Arles Photographie, Arles (2004 and 2007) and Das Achte Feld - Geschlechter, Leben und Begehren in der bildenden Kunst seit 1960, Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2006). Her books include Myself Mona Ahmed, Scalo 2001, Privacy, Steidl 2003, Chairs, Steidl 2005, Go Away Closer, Steidl 2007 and Sent a Letter, Steidl 2008. Singh Lives and works in Delhi and Goa. |
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