 Koshy Kids, Bangalore, 1997 Silver gelatin print on aluminium, 100 x 100 cm Dayanita Singh Chairs Frith Street Gallery is delighted to announce a new exhibition of photographic work by Dayanita Singh. Entitled "Chairs", this show grew out Singh's period as Artist in Residence at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Here she began to photograph the Museum's collection and was drawn mainly to chairs - making studies of these objects as though they were the people she would have photographed in her earlier work. Though arresting and intimate images Singh continues to explore the idea of portraiture of spaces and things - devoid of the human figure yet evoking a sense of warmth and connectivity. These photographs of furniture convey a strong spirit of place (they come from a wide range of locations: from Florence to Boston to Calcutta) and of past lives. Singh's individual subjects often seem to take on their own personalities, inanimate objects communicating a sense of status, age, and gender. Looking at the photographs it's often hard to tell at a glance when and where they were taken. They look old and new, Western and Indian and of course they are in some sense, both - the one because of the other. These works were first shown at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston USA and we are very grateful for their help and collaboration in the realisation of this exhibition. "Chairs" is accompanied by a specially designed, limited edition publication. Dayanita Singh was born in Delhi in 1961. She studied Visual Communication at the National Institute of Art and Design, Ahmedabad and Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the International Centre of Photography, New York. She has worked as a photojournalist for many international publications including The New Yorker, Time, Newsweek, the Independent Magazine Marie Claire and Granta. Recent Solo Exhibitions of Singh's work have included: "Chairs", Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston USA, (2005). "Privacy", National Galerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, "Myself Mona Ahmed", Museum für Indische Kunst Berlin, (2003). "I am as I am", Scalo Galerie, Zurich (2002) and "Empty Spaces," Frith Street Gallery, (2001). Dayanita Singh lives in Delhi. Exhibition: 2 June - 5 August 2005 Gallery hours: Tues-Fri 10 am - 6 pm, Sat 11 am - 4 pm Frith Street Gallery 59-60 Frith Street GB-London W1D 3JJ Telephone +44 20 7494 1550 Fax +44 20 7287 3733 Email info@frithstreetgallery.com www.frithstreetgallery.com |
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