When Toni Morrison was asked, “Why did you write The Bluest Eye?” her response was, “Because I wanted to read it.” Likewise, Dayanita Singh is asking frontier questions about photography simply to answer them from the frontline herself. In October, London’s Hayward gives her her biggest museum show, enlisting decades of work into what I call ‘photo sculptures’, wooden viewing rooms in which images invent and reinvent narrative as John Berger may have approved: Never again will a single story be told as if it were the only one
When Toni Morrison was asked, “Why did you write The Bluest Eye?” her response was, “Because I wanted to read it.” Likewise, Dayanita Singh is asking frontier questions about photography simply to answer them from the frontline herself. In October, London’s Hayward gives her her biggest museum show, enlisting decades of work into what I call ‘photo sculptures’, wooden viewing rooms in which images invent and reinvent narrative as John Berger may have approved: Never again will a single story be told as if it were the only one
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