Gender and art

"With more than seven hundred photographs, the internationally renowned photographer Dayanita Singh is providing in-depth insights into the past thirty years of her artistic work.

Her exhibition “Go Away Closer” is a museum in a museum: in installations she calls “museum structures”, Singh arranges her photographs and presents them in structures she had developed as her form. These archives structures stand in the exhibition like open oversize books. Each of the expansive, multiply convertible wooden structures holds between 70 and 140 black-and-white photographs – series of works edited and arranged in sequences by the artist, but theoretically capable of being rearranged and supplemented in any number of ways."

Dayanita Singh "Go Away Closer"

27 September 2014 - 4 January 2015

Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

http://www.mmk-frankfurt.de/en/ausstellung/current-exhibitions/exhibition-details/exhibition_uid/13063/

"Dayanita Singh is a slow photographer, and  she makes both individual pictures and sequences that are quite impossible to  glance at and go. That is a great virtue. These are meditative pictures that  demand careful digestion and resist being reduced to short internal captions.  Singh (born in 1961) is an Indian photographer who has moved over many years  from a journalistic manner to something more literary, and the various shades of  her photography are represented in what amounts to her first retrospective at  the Hayward Gallery.

Singh has developed a way of working in fluid series which she revisits many  times, so that pictures frequently recur in several different contexts. She  started working in this way through contact with two exceptional publishers of  photographic books, Walter Keller (of Scalo) and Gerhard Steidl, and it is for  her elegant books that she is best known. A little boxed set of  concertina-folded series called Sent a Letter, a group of diaristic  sketchbooks, each of which has its own feel and tone but no clear plot, was  published by Steidl in 2008 and marks the turning point. [...]"

Dayanita Singh

Hayward Gallery, Soutbank Centre, London

8 October 2013 - 15 December 2013

http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whatson/dayanita-singh-78547?dt=2013-10-21

In the coming weeks, the Art Institute will present two solo exhibitions devoted to the illuminating work of two contemporary women artists from India: Dayanita Singh and Nilima Sheikh. Though pursuing radically different projects—the life of eunuch Mona Ahmed in Delhi and the contested valley of Kashmir—these artists represent the vitality and diversity of contemporary art in India. The work of photographer Dayanita Singh will be on view in Gallery 292 through June 1, 2014, and Nilima Sheikh: Each Night Put Kashmir in Your Dreams will be presented from March 8 through May 18, 2014 in Galleries 182–184.

http://www.artic.edu/exhibition/dayanita-singh

http://www.artic.edu/exhibition/nilima-sheikh-each-night-put-kashmir-your-dreams