Vasantha Yogananthan - The Promise
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Vasantha Yogananthan
The Promise
Published by Chose Commune, 2017
Book size 24.5 x 30 cm
Pages 116 pages / 63 photographs
Hardcover
Languages French and English
ISBN: 979-10-96383-01-6
©HoTeng Chang
First edition
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 traveling 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: color, 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.
The Promise is the second part of Vasantha Yogananthan's long-term project, A Myth of Two Souls, which offers a contemporary rereading of the Ramayana. An epic composed of seven chapters and attributed to the poet Valmiki, the Ramayana, composed more than two thousand years old, is one of the fundamental texts of Hindu mythology.
Since 2013, Vasantha Yogananthan has been traveling India from north to south, retracing the route taken by the heroes of the epic. Between fiction and reality, he deliberately blurs the lines by multiplying the approaches: color photographs, repainted photographs, illustrated photographs and vernacular images compose the layers of a timeless story.
This second book is the celebration of the love between Rama and Sita, the two heroes of the story. Their union, a happy but fraught event, is deeply rooted in the collective imagination in India and Nepal. The writing of the second chapter of this epic – constantly reinterpreted throughout the ages – was entrusted to the writer Arshia Sattar.