Installation titled Structures of Memory: Modern Bengal by Indian artist Vivan Sundaram (b.1943, Simla), site-specifically installed at Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta, India, in 1998.
Hosted in the colonial monument located in the center of Calcutta, the multimedia installation includes several elements brought together in a single standing historical structure. The installation uses historical textual and visual references to draw parallels both conceptually and visually. Using the original space as a platform, it functions as a site-specific interactive and participatory work.
Binodini: Double Portrait is a section of Structures of Memory: Modern Bengal which consists of a computer-manipulated double-portrait of Binodini Debi set within painted text from her autobiography and a collage of photos of other Bengali actresses.
Hosted in the colonial monument located in the center of Calcutta, the multimedia installation includes several elements brought together in a single standing historical structure. The installation uses historical textual and visual references to draw parallels both conceptually and visually. Using the original space as a platform, it functions as a site-specific interactive and participatory work.
Binodini: Double Portrait is a section of Structures of Memory: Modern Bengal which consists of a computer-manipulated double-portrait of Binodini Debi set within painted text from her autobiography and a collage of photos of other Bengali actresses.
Other credits:
Painting: Jayashree Chakravarty; system work: Jit Ray; photo courtesy: Natya Shodh
Exhibition history: ‘Structures of Memory: Modern Bengal,’ site-specific installation at Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta, 1998.
Alternative title
Structures of Memory | The History Project
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1998
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India
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Site-specific installation
Dimension
91.44cm x 76.2cm
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artwork documentation
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