PHOTOINK

21.04.10 – 12.06.10

PHOTOINK, New Delhi

Noida Soliloquy (2007 - 2010)

PHOTOINK is pleased to present Noida Soliloquy, a solo exhibition of colour photographs by Dhruv Malhotra. A self‐taught young photographer, Dhruv has a strange predilection for nightfall like the legendary Brassai – for it is the night that also compels him to pick up the camera. He prowls the city with a medium format camera, courting danger in its gardens, dark alleys and under bridges where silence and sodium vapour lamps keep him company.

In Noida Soliloquy, the experience of the night is not obscured or made mysterious. Instead, the photographs made with long exposures, appear like almost‐day and thus surreal. It is in this visible darkness, the attention shifts to the anatomy of an aspiring metropolis. The focus is not the obvious signs that seek to define Noida but the less seen, in‐between spaces that await being transformed and occupied.

Noida Soliloquy is as much about the night as it is about a melancholic gaze at modernity.

Prints

Untitled

Pigment print

2 sizes available
23.6 × 29.5 in (60 × 75 cm)
33.6 × 42 in (85.3 × 106.7 cm)
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Untitled

Pigment print

2 sizes available
23.6 × 29.5 in (60 × 75 cm)
33.6 × 42 in (85.3 × 106.7 cm)
Ed of 8

Electric Towers

Pigment prints

(set of 9 photographs)
Each photograph is 10 × 12.5 in (25.4 × 31.75 cm)
Ed of 8

Untitled

Pigment print

2 sizes available
23.6 × 29.5 in (60 × 75 cm)
33.6 × 42 in (85.3 × 106.7 cm)
Ed of 8

Untitled

Pigment print

2 sizes available
23.6 × 29.5 in (60 × 75 cm)
33.6 × 42 in (85.3 × 106.7 cm)
Ed of 8

Untitled

Pigment print

2 sizes available
23.6 × 29.5 in (60 × 75 cm)
33.6 × 42 in (85.3 × 106.7 cm)
Ed of 8

Untitled

Pigment print

2 sizes available
23.6 × 29.5 in (60 × 75 cm)
33.6 × 42 in (85.3 × 106.7 cm)
Ed of 8

Untitled

Pigment print

2 sizes available
23.6 × 29.5 in (60 × 75 cm)
33.6 × 42 in (85.3 × 106.7 cm)
Ed of 8

Untitled

Pigment print

2 sizes available
23.6 × 29.5 in (60 × 75 cm)
33.6 × 42 in (85.3 × 106.7 cm)
Ed of 8

Untitled

Pigment print

2 sizes available
23.6 × 29.5 in (60 × 75 cm)
33.6 × 42 in (85.3 × 106.7 cm)
Ed of 8

Untitled

Pigment print

2 sizes available
23.6 × 29.5 in (60 × 75 cm)
33.6 × 42 in (85.3 × 106.7 cm)
Ed of 8

Untitled

Pigment print

2 sizes available
23.6 × 29.5 in (60 × 75 cm)
33.6 × 42 in (85.3 × 106.7 cm)
Ed of 8

Untitled

Pigment print

2 sizes available
23.6 × 29.5 in (60 × 75 cm)
33.6 × 42 in (85.3 × 106.7 cm)
Ed of 8

Untitled

Pigment print

2 sizes available
23.6 × 29.5 in (60 × 75 cm)
33.6 × 42 in (85.3 × 106.7 cm)
Ed of 8

Untitled

Pigment print

2 sizes available
23.6 × 29.5 in (60 × 75 cm)
33.6 × 42 in (85.3 × 106.7 cm)
Ed of 8

Untitled

Pigment print

2 sizes available
23.6 × 29.5 in (60 × 75 cm)
33.6 × 42 in (85.3 × 106.7 cm)
Ed of 8

Untitled

Pigment print

2 sizes available
23.6 × 29.5 in (60 × 75 cm)
33.6 × 42 in (85.3 × 106.7 cm)
Ed of 8

Untitled

Pigment print

2 sizes available
23.6 × 29.5 in (60 × 75 cm)
33.6 × 42 in (85.3 × 106.7 cm)
Ed of 8

Untitled

Pigment print

2 sizes available
23.6 × 29.5 in (60 × 75 cm)
33.6 × 42 in (85.3 × 106.7 cm)
Ed of 8

Untitled

Pigment print

2 sizes available
23.6 × 29.5 in (60 × 75 cm)
33.6 × 42 in (85.3 × 106.7 cm)
Ed of 8

Untitled

Pigment print

2 sizes available
23.6 × 29.5 in (60 × 75 cm)
33.6 × 42 in (85.3 × 106.7 cm)
Ed of 8

Untitled

Pigment print

2 sizes available
23.6 × 29.5 in (60 × 75 cm)
33.6 × 42 in (85.3 × 106.7 cm)
Ed of 8

Below Flyovers

Pigment prints

(set of 9 photographs)
Each photograph is 10 × 12.5 in (25.4 × 31.75 cm)
Ed of 8

Untitled

Pigment print

2 sizes available
23.6 × 29.5 in (60 × 75 cm)
33.6 × 42 in (85.3 × 106.7 cm)
Ed of 8

Untitled

Pigment print

2 sizes available
23.6 × 29.5 in (60 × 75 cm)
33.6 × 42 in (85.3 × 106.7 cm)
Ed of 8

Untitled

Pigment print

2 sizes available
23.6 × 29.5 in (60 × 75 cm)
33.6 × 42 in (85.3 × 106.7 cm)
Ed of 8

Installation views

Installation view: Dileep Prakash