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SEA OF FILES - DAYANITA SINGH GEBUNDEN

This book celebrates Dayanita Singh as the 2022 winner of the Hasselblad Award  considered the
most prestigious international photography prize. Sea of Files highlights Singh's consistent
and unique engagement with the archive  both in a real sense (including the overflowing bundles
of India's public and private archives) and metaphorically: the archive as a vessel of cultural
experience. The book includes Singh's associative visual essay Sea of Files in its entirety  as
well as-for the first time in a publication-Museum of Innocence (The Madras Chapter) and other
series engaging with the meanings and materiality of archives. A personal essay by Nobel
Laureate Orhan Pamuk explores the lyrical  silent reality of Singh's photographs of state
archives  for him images of aura and melancholy that evoke the texture of memory  an idea of
poetic decrepitude and a sense of profundity  as well as dignified resistance even when the
passage of time makes everything meaningless. The book furthermore shows how Singh has paved
new ways for engaging with photography  be it through humanist portraiture  or her innovative
display structures and book objects which recast traditional notions of the museum and
publishing. Co-published with the Hasselblad Foundation  Gothenburg

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