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Dayanita Singh
Hasselblad Center, Göteborg, through 22 January

For nearly four decades Dayanita Singh has been bending the rules of how photography can be presented – and by extension, experienced – by blending book publishing, archival practices and museum display. You won’t find her photographs (of architecture and interiors, the artist’s childhood, music sessions, portraits of her late close friend Mona and, of course, archives) printed and mounted on walls in any conventional manner. Instead you’ll find them bound in little books that fit into the many pockets of a bespoke coat (My Life as a Museum, 2018); or in various series printed on card and housed in a handmade wooden box with a cutout window, so that each image may be displayed one at a time (when multiple boxes are placed side by side, the combinations are innumerable); or in the form of Singh’s portable ‘museums’ – installations of modular wooden structures that display the photos and which can be altered and reorganised, and are therefore everchanging. So it’s no wonder that Singh has won this year’s Hasselblad Award (the first South Asian photographer to do so), part of which means she’ll be presenting an exhibition, Sea of Files, of works spanning her career. Fi Churchman

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