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Installation titled Structures of Memory: Modern Bengal by Indian artist Vivan Sundaram (b.1943, Simla), site-specifically installed at the Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta, India, in 1998. Hosted in the colonial monument located in the center of Calcutta, the multimedia installation includes several elements brought together in a single standing historical structure. The installation uses historical textual and visual reference to draw parallels both conceptually and visually. Using the original space as platform, it functions as a site specific interactive and participatory work. Changing Dress-Codes is a section of Structures of Memory: Modern Bengal which consists of several components including; photographs of Bengali couples and professional women, floating on the glass vitrine which contains Queen Alexandria's gown (made in Bengal in 1903), and the gown is now in the collection of Victoria Memorial.  
 
 
 

Alternative title

Structures of Memory | The History Project

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Online

Publication/Creation date

1998

Creation place

India

Medium

Mix-media/Multi-media

Dimension

243.84 x 76.2 x 91.44 cm

Content type

artwork documentation

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Structures of Memory: Modern Bengal (Exhibition view of Changing Dress-Codes)