Go Away Closer by Dayanita Singh


Go Away Closer concerns series of opposites in Singh’s India: presence and absence, reality and dreams, tradition and progress. The artist expresses the emotion underlying these often abstract concepts, through photography that springs from her own intimate experiences. Singh establishes a connection between personal losses, and collective sadness due to lost traditions in the face of technology. These irreconcilable opposites are embodied by the paradox of the books title. Singh embraces this uncertainty, and presents visual clues in her photographs into which the viewer can read his or her own biography. Rather than answering questions, this work considers the emotional fabric from which they arise.
