Outlook x Bihar Museum Biennale | Dayanita Singh
- 11 months ago
What would museums of the future look like? According to Artist Dayanita Singh, the ‘museums of the future’ need to be “small and portable”.
Singh has created such a museum that can be displayed anywhere, on a table or a shelf. It can be taken home and made part of one’s everyday life. Her ‘Museum Bhavan’ box with its nine accordion-fold museums, is a radical take on museums and memory. The portable photobook brings museums outside of their rigid and colonial confinement of privileged knowledge to the world of the ordinary, the everyday. She wears the museums around in a special jacket with nine pockets to house the nine museums that she can pull out anywhere to show to the curious.
The discussions, held at Delhi’s Bikaner House on June 24, were part of Outlook’s collaboration with Bihar Museum Biennale, whose se condition edition is set to open in August this year.
Singh has created such a museum that can be displayed anywhere, on a table or a shelf. It can be taken home and made part of one’s everyday life. Her ‘Museum Bhavan’ box with its nine accordion-fold museums, is a radical take on museums and memory. The portable photobook brings museums outside of their rigid and colonial confinement of privileged knowledge to the world of the ordinary, the everyday. She wears the museums around in a special jacket with nine pockets to house the nine museums that she can pull out anywhere to show to the curious.
The discussions, held at Delhi’s Bikaner House on June 24, were part of Outlook’s collaboration with Bihar Museum Biennale, whose se condition edition is set to open in August this year.