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https://shop.tate.org.uk/dayanita-singh-mona-mother-mohun-and-the-fileroom-2016/ed1008.htmlDayanita Singh
Mona, Mother, Mohun and the FILEROOM
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Dayanita Singh created Mona, Mother, Mohun and the FILEROOM, 2016 to celebrate and support the opening of the Blavatnik building at Tate Modern in 2016. The edition of 100 uses two File Room books, each with an archival print pasted onto the hardback cover. The book covers come in a variety of colours and it is intended by the artist that the cover colour in each work is a surprise. Each book is presented in a bespoke wooden frame with hinges that allow for it to be opened and closed and presented on a shelf. Each edition is accompanied by a signed and numbered certificate.
FILEROOM is an elegy to paper in the age of the digitization of information and knowledge. It documents, and reflects on, the nature of paper as material and symbol in the work of making photographs and books. It includes an interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist that relates this book object with Singh’s other books and bodies of work, and texts by Aveek Sen that explore the different ways in which the mad world of files and paperwork continue to touch ordinary lives, File Room is itself an archive of archives
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About the Artist
Dayanita Singh’s (b. 1961, New Delhi) works in analogue photography and bookmaking. She has a unique relationship with paper that is integral not only to the work of making of images, texts and memory, but also to a larger confrontation with chaos, mortality and disorder in the labyrinths of working bureaucratic archives in a country of more than a billion people. Publishing is a significant part of the artist’s practice: in her books, she experiments with alternate forms of producing and viewing photographs. Here, Singh’s latest is the “book-object,” a work that is concurrently a book, an art object, an exhibition and a catalogue. This work, also developing from the artist’s interest in the poetic and narrative possibility of sequence and re-sequence, allows Singh to both create photographic sequence and also simultaneously disrupt it.
Her work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Frith Street Gallery, Golden Square, London, the Hayward Gallery, London), the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago and the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi. Singh has authored twelve books.
- Artist Dayanita Singh
- Artwork Mona, Mother, Mohun and the FILEROOM
- Dimensions 35 X 27 X 6 cm (closed)
- Material Fileroom books, wooden frame, archival prints
- Edition Edition of 100, signed and numbered
- Date of work 2016
This work can be purchased with Own Art, which allows you to spread the cost of your purchase over 10 months, completely interest free.
- Product Code S20303
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Delivery & returns
Delivery times
We aim to deliver shop products within:
UK – 1-2 weeks
European Union – 2-4 weeks
Rest of world – 2-4 weeks
Neon lights will be delivered in 2-4 weeks, as they are made in small batches and shipped separately from other items.
Delivery costs
We currently offer free standard delivery on UK orders over £60. Please note that this is offer is valid only online. Our other delivery costs are as follows.
For orders under £60:
UK – £3.60 per order
European Union – £15 per order
Rest of world (including non-EU European countries) – £28 per order
Limited editions
Due to the nature of our Limited Edition artworks, Tate offers rates for packaging materials to sufficiently protect the works and a fully insured, door-to-door courier service, for both UK and international shipping.
Rugs
Rugs are dispatched directly from the Christopher Farr workshop, so they will arrive separately from any other items ordered from Tate Shop.
For international shipping enquiries, please contact us at shop@tate.org.uk for quotes on delivery to selected countries.
Goldfinger + Tate furniture
As each item of furniture is made to order, delivery takes 12-14 weeks, and will arrive separately to any other items in your Tate Shop order.
Food & Wine
Our collection of food and wine is only available for delivery in the UK. We currently offer free delivery on wine orders over £100, using a specialist white glove service within the M25 area.
Wine: UK only – £20 per order
Please note that our wines can only be purchased by those aged 18 years and over. Customers will be asked to provide proof of age upon delivery.
Here’s more information on delivery.
Refunds & returns
Please contact our customer service team within 45 days if you need to return anything from your order. We will be happy to offer you a full refund, replacement or exchange on any items excluding custom prints, Goldfinger + Tate furniture, face coverings and pierced earrings. We cannot cover the cost of returning the items, unless we've made a mistake or they are faulty.
Unfortunately, after 14 working days we cannot refund the delivery charge on your order. You can contact our customer service team by email at shop@tate.org.uk or by phone on +44 (0)20 7887 8888 (Monday – Friday, 10.30 –17.00).
Here’s more information on refunds & returns.