'"House of Love" is a work of photographic fiction that takes the form of nine short stories. Working closely with writer Aveek Sen, whose prose follows a journey of its own, Singh explores the relationship between photography, memory, and writing. "House of Love", designed to blur the lines between an art book of photographic images and a work of literary fiction, is a book whose images demand to be read, not just seen, and whose texts create their own sensory worlds. The combination creates a new vocabulary for the visual book.
The “House of Love” itself is the Taj Mahal, but the Taj Mahal as a recurring motif that stands for a range of meanings—meanings made up of the truths and lies of night and day, love and illusion, attachment and detachment.' - from artist's website.

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Onsite

Location code
MON.SID3
Language

English

Publication/Creation date

2010

No of pages

172

ISBN / ISSN

9781934435274

No of copies

1

Content type

artist monograph, 

photobook

Chapter headings

A nocturnal vacation - Aveek SEN

Dayanita Singh: House of Love
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Dayanita Singh: House of Love