Skip to Main Content
No image availableNo image available

Poles and Tree, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India

2013, printed 2017
(French, b. 1985)
France(?)
inkjet print
Image: 17 x 20.9 cm (6 11/16 x 8 1/4 in.); Paper: 17.7 x 23.9 cm (6 15/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
Transfer from Ingalls Library 2023.37
Location: not on view
This artwork is known to be under copyright.

Download, Print and Share

Did You Know?

Vasantha Yogananthan views his photographic retelling of the ancient Indian epic the Ramayana (Rama’s Journey) as a journey to his own self-discovery.

Description

Yogananthan’s version of the tale of the fourteen-year exile of the hero Rama from his homelandfreely merges fiction and reality. He juxtaposes photographs of historical settings from the Ramayana with glimpses of everyday life today on the subcontinent. In Poles and Tree, two people shelter under a tree in a non-descript urban setting. Mist obscures the view, echoing Yogananthan’s blurring of past with present in his recasting of this classic Indian epic.
Poles and Tree, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India

Poles and Tree, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India

2013, printed 2017

Vasantha Yogananthan

(French, b. 1985)
France(?)

See Also

Contact us

The information about this object, including provenance, may not be currently accurate. If you notice a mistake or have additional information about this object, please email collectionsdata@clevelandart.org.

To request more information about this object, study images, or bibliography, contact the Ingalls Library Reference Desk.

All images and data available through Open Access can be downloaded for free. For images not available through Open Access, a detail image, or any image with a color bar, request a digital file from Image Services.