This Delhi-based artist has brought two mobile museums to Mumbai
Updated On: 10 December, 2016 08:44 AM IST | | Krutika Behrawala
Delhi-based Dayanita Singh packs over 400 iconic images in two suitcases and flies down to showcase them in a series of dynamic installations that give new meaning to books, photographs and art

This Delhi-based artist has brought two mobile museums to Mumbai

Creamy, black-and-white photographs sitting within tall, wooden pillars, joined by hinges, greet us when we step into Dr Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum in Byculla. Juxtaposed against a row of static artefacts ensconced in glass cages, the pillars and the images within them move according to the whims of artist Dayanita Singh. We bend a little, and spot a still of Nargis Dutt from Shree 420. When Singh shifts the angle of a panel, it changes form from a closed-door chamber into a labyrinth. Instantly, a series of images on the side unfold. Coincidentally, next to the actress is a frame of her husband, Sunil Dutt tying a turban on son-in-law Kumar Gaurav’s head. "I found pre-determined formats of photography exhibition dull. I like to continuously change how the images relate with each other because they are dependent on what goes next to it," says the 55-year-old Delhi-based artist, who has brought down two mobile museums from a family of nine that comprise her Museum Bhavan, as part of Suitcase Museum that opens tomorrow.
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