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Iwan Baan
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Iwan Baan (Dutch, b. 1975)
Chandigarh (published in Brasilia-Chandigarh Living With Modernity, 2010)
C-print with face mounted acrylic
Gift of Berkus Family Collection
Chandigarh is a city in India partially built in the 1960s that is based on plans by the famous European modern architect Le Corbusier. Created as a new metropolis, the city’s utopian concepts changed when situated in a southeast Asian culture. Iwan Baan photographed the city early in the 21st century, focusing on how European modernity shifted within the cultural context of Indian contemporary life.