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The Devotee (Installation View)
Nandini Valli Muthiah2016
Chennai Photo Biennale
Chennai, India
Nandini Valli Muthiah’s photo series, ‘The Devotee’ (2016), makes its debut at the Chennai Photo Biennale 2019 and brings you face to face with a group of the Sabarimalai pilgrims.The ‘Devotee’, is a study, of cultural anthropological fashion and looks at the pilgrim of Sabarimalai as a mini community within society. The photo series looks at the devotee not just as an image of a relative, neighbour or a friend, but as a being who has by undertaking the penance required of him, become closer to his Ayappan (the god at Sabarimalai).
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- Title: The Devotee (Installation View)
- Creator: Nandini Valli Muthiah
- Date Created: 2016
- Location: Government College of Fine Arts, Chennai
- Location Created: Chennai
- Type: Photograph
- Original Source: Artist Website
- External Link: Chennai Photo Biennale website
- Exhibition title: An unbearable lightness of being
- Exhibition Description: A sense of dystopia, unease, maybe even giggly laughter, hysteria, melancholy, or even pictures of the unnoticed
- CPB Edition: 2019
- Artist's biography: Nandini Valli Muthiah is a Chennai based Independent Photographer. She studied English Literature at Madras University and did her Master’s degree in French Translation and Interpretation from Pondicherry University. She then trained as a professional photographer at the Arts Institute at Bournemouth UK.
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