Steidl, 2010. First edition.Hardcover, 136 pp., color illustrated, 107 x 203 mm. Photographs by Dayanita Singh. Design by Dayanita Singh, Gerhard Steidl.
In Dream Villa Singh explores how the night transforms what seems ordinary by day into something mysterious and unsettling. This series of colour photographs presents a landscape which exists as much in the artist’s imagination as in the real world. Singh travels to many different cities never knowing where Dream Villa or its inhabitants will present themselves. It is a place where nothing is quite as it seems to be – it comes alive at night, when all is lit by artificial light and the moon is just ornamentation.
