"Building Museum Bhavan" - Dayanita Singh @Jnanapravaha Part 1

"Starting with Sent a Letter in 2007 I began to explore the idea of the book as an exhibition. This led me in 2013 to the Museum Bhavan. I think I had always known the book was my form, the tactile book that you held in your hands, the Zakir book 1986 had no exhibition, no prints on the wall, but it took me 30 years to find a form that allowed me to free my images from the wall, from the matt and the frame and making both the display and the sequencing endlessly changing.This came in the form of the mobile museums. Perhaps the most crucial process is not the photography but the editing. I think I work backwards, I collect images over months and years and then at a certain time, I stop and start to look at the material, and weed out, till the bare structure remains. Then I find the form, rather it finds itself in this editing process." - Dayanita Singh