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File Room, Dayanita Singh, 2011
Dayanita Singh, portraitDayanita SinghIndian, 1961

File Room

2011 · Photograph

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Not on view at present

Where is “File Room” now? Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.

Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

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About the work

In India, archivists design their own structures, whether it be metal or wood, and most of the time also design their own catalogue systems. I find the thought of the secrets and knowledge contained in all that paper deeply moving.

—Dayanita Singh, 2013

Art Institute of ChicagoCC BY 4.0

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Accession number
2018.172a-e

What it shows

India

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PhotographsInkjet printContemporary art21st centuryContemporary

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