EAN: 9783958299085

BOOK BUILDING - DAYANITA SINGH GEBUNDEN

Is it a book  an exhibition  a catalogue of the exhibition? Is it mass produced? Is it unique?
Dayanita Singh is a book artist who stretches the imagination of what a book can be 
transcending the spaces between publishing and art. Book of Books traces the journeys of
Singh's books  from the first  Zakir Hussain (1986)  to her latest  Zakir Hussain Maquette
(2019)  showing the spectrum of her book-building process  from idea to material object and how
she inventively circulates them in the art world and beyond. Both a short history and a deep
dive  this is Dayanita Singh's manifesto for the photobook. Taking those she has made with
Steidl as a basis  we witness the transformation of books into book-objects which open up new
interpretative spaces: Museum of Chance (2014)  for example  first became a book-object  then a
diptych  a book-case  a suitcase museum and a book museum  before finally becoming the ongoing
museum in Singh's Museum Bhavan (2017). Book of Books documents Singh's 13 books in images and
short texts  along with several DIYs Singh has created with detailed instructions on how to
display her books as exhibitions-making us the curators-as well as various performative
interventions  from book carts and happenings  to installations and tours. At the heart of Book
of Books is the collaborative process that Dayanita Singh and Gerhard Steidl have established
over 20 years  the belief that a book is always in a process of becoming.

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