CCA: TRACES OF INDIA

Fig. 1 -Traces of India at the Canadian Centre for Architecture installation view. Photo credit: CCA.

Traces of India: Photography, Architecture, and the Politics of Representation is an exhibition that explores the social, political, and anthropological role of photographic images in India during British colonial rule. The installation was designed to adapt to two venues: The Canadian Centre for Architecture and Yale Center for British Arts. The exhibition features a selection of nineteenth-century photographs of historic monuments of India from the CCA collection, along with a related selection of images from popular culture, including postcards, posters, political ephemera, and clips of Bollywood films.

Fig. 2 – Archival book cradle.

Fig. 3 – Archival cradle angle is set to support and protect a book spine when open to a specific page.

Fig. 4 – Top view of book vitrines showing archival material open to specific pages.

Fig. 5 – The geometric form of each vitrine was set by the precise angles required to support the narrative grouping of archival content on display.

Fig. 6 – Fabrication drawing specifying the successive angles of the bent steel vitrine surface.

Fig. 7 – Fabrication drawing specifying the successive angles of the bent steel vitrine surface.

Fig. 8 – Installation view. Photo credit: CCA.

Fig. 9 – Installation view. Photo credit: CCA.

Fig. 10 – Installation view. Photo credit: CCA.

Fig. 11 – Installation view. Photo credit: CCA.

Fig. 12 – Gallery plan with vitrines and color lighting gels

Fig. 13 – Installation view. Photo credit: CCA.

Fig. 14 – Installation view. Photo credit: CCA.

Fig. 15 – Installation view. Photo credit: CCA.

LOCATION:

Montreal, Canada

year:

2002

program:

Exhibition

systems and materials:

Powder-coated steel and acryllic

client:

Canadian Centre for Architecture

project team:

Lindy Roy with Heidi Werner

related projects:

Deitch Projects: The Garden Party, Deitch Projects: Keith Haring, Design Museum: The Peter Saville Show, Mobile Graceland, Meatspace

publications: