Text - Time Travel - Shanay Jhaveri
Notes:
Dayanita Singh - a photographer that directs her practice towards a book format. I'm interested in Singh's organisation of images, and how a new narrative is formed out of casual arrangement of her images in the book, as the text describes, "[the photographs] are not presented chronologically." Singh's process seems to be revolving around one subject, that is Hussain, and i am interested in how this research project is about a person in their daily routines, as well as extending into something that operates in a gallery space as an artwork.
"Singh displayed a copy of Zakir Hussain on the gallery wall. She has never presented the book in a museum context, and none of its images has ever been exhibited in print. The photographs only live within the book and they must be experienced in relation to each other."
The tension between these photographs being images in a book, or works that operate within a gallery space. It is interesting how images made for a certain format exist within spaces that are not supposed to/not made for. How does the artist desire the image to be seen as, and how do images become engaged with through different platforms. What is the importance/ feel/quality/aura that a book format supposedly gives to images? I think, the relationship of my own work with book format gives my images and text works a chance to work together, and i am able to control how the audience perceives my making and ideas. While my installation is more open to an experimental and unconventional approach, having photographs in a book adds an aspect of some certainty or assurance to the project, adding another dimension for my project to be considered via.
Text from Time Travel by Shanay Jhaveri:
