Kochi Pillar
Artist
Dayanita Singh
(Indian, born 1961)
Date2015
MediumMixed media with inkjet prints
DimensionsOverall: 89 5/8 × 22 × 21 3/4 inches (227.65 × 55.88 × 55.25 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2016.75.266.1-35
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Inscribednone
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Dayanita Singh’s Kochi Pillar pays homage to the Library Movement of Kerala, a state in southwest India. The mass cultural movement greatly expanded literacy in that state in the 1990s. The work merges sculpture and photography to create, in the artist’s words, a “mobile museum.” The photographs can be moved and rearranged within the structure, permitting multiple narratives and groupings.
The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2016;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.
Copyright© Dayanita Singh
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