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Vasantha YogananthanThe Promise

Vasantha Yogananthan – The Promise

Photographs: Vasantha Yogananthan

Text: Arshia Sattar

Publisher: Chose Commune

116 pages

Pictures: 63

Year: 2017

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The Promise is the second chapter of Vasantha Yogananthan’s long-term project A Myth of Two Souls, which offers a contemporary retelling of The Ramayana. A seven-chapter tale first recorded by the Sanskrit poet Valmiki around 300 BC, The Ramayana is one of the founding epics of Hindu mythology.

Since 2013, Yogananthan has been travelling from north to south India, retracing the itinerary of the epic’s heroes. Between fiction and reality, he deliberately blurs the lines through multiple aesthetic approaches : colour, hand-painted and illustrated photographs are interspersed with vernacular images to compose the layers of this timeless story.

This second book celebrates the love between Rama and Sita, the two main characters of the story. Their union, a festive but challenging event, is strongly embedded in the collective imagination in India and Nepal. The Ramayana has been continuously rewritten and reinterpreted through time, and for Yoganathan’s book has been retold by Indian writer Arshia Sattar.

A Myth of Two Souls will be published in seven photobooks between 2016-2019, one per chapter of the epic.
Hardcover, 30.5 x 25 cm. in a very good condition other than a few scratches and stains on the covers, the inside of the book is imperfect condition, First edition, 2017. Text in english and in french. Design by Kummer & Herrman. OUT OF PRINT
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