SADAK by Aradhana Seth

Photographs of hand-painted street signs in India

The photographs by Aradhana Seth, assembled in SADAK, are exhibited for the first time at DEEYA in Paris. The artist, who has been photographing street paintings since the 1990s as distinctive encounters and sensitive perceptions of painted signs. Through her lens, Seth has created a unique personal archive to alert us to their slow and silent disappearance - their erasure from a common memory, in favor of a rapid societal change where there is no room for nostalgia.

Through an elective choice of street paintings photographed as a sedimentation of signs, Deeya presents compositions conceived as new Sadaks, a journey between the signs - weaving lines, shapes, and colors - which document the disappearance of a delightfully disordered world, an accumulation of chronologies, and the reinterpretation of a poetic language inscribed in our universal imagination - thanks to the talent of  Indian street artists - an open-air museum of images.