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  • WORKS (2013-2018)
    • 2018. The Wood for the Trees
    • 2017. Written in the Margins
    • 2013. The Retrospectacle of S. Raoul
    • 2013. Useful Fictions
    • OLDER WORKS >
      • 2017 >
        • Every Cabinet is a Library, from the 3rd Pune Biennale
      • 2016 >
        • works from Ghost on the Wire 2
      • 2015 >
        • works from Dear Painter
        • Objects Best Shown to a Stranger
      • 2014 >
        • Visual Snow
      • 2013 >
        • Stabbing at Immortality: Building a Better Jellyfish
        • Blotting the Ledger
      • 2008 >
        • The Tuning Fork of the Mind
        • The River of Ink
  • BOOKS (2006-2017)
    • Pulp Vol. III 2022
    • Pulp: Vol II 2018
    • Pulp: Vol I. 2016
    • Written in the Margins 2017
    • Useful Fictions. 2014
    • History's Malcontents. 2013
    • 4 Pillars: Books from the Echolocation project. 2007-2008
    • No Cover, No Colour. 2006
    • Bastardising Biography: An Extraordinary Initiative. 2006

Pulp II: A Visual Bibliography of the Banished Book


Winner Singapore Literature Prize (creative nonfiction) 2020



“Probing, exhaustive in its global scope, intellectually ambitious and deeply felt, the second volume in artist-writer Shubigi Rao’s decade-long documentary project on reading, libraries and censorship gets to the heart of what ‘creative non-fiction’ can be.
As a book on the value of books, rendered through incisive prose and visual imagery,
it provokes the whole question of what a book is, in terms of form.
In terms of content, it is replete with insight and wisdom, constantly shifting our expectations of the subject matter
​and in the process, able to stand with the best in world literature."

-Judges from Singapore Literature Prize, 2020





Available at
Books Kinokuniya Singapore (international shipping)

Epigram Books (international shipping)


 Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, (Singapore)


for other enquiries, email [email protected]
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full colour, 400pp, softcover with dust-jacket
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more about the accompanying exhibition here

published by Rock Paper Fire Singapore, 2022
© COPYRIGHT 2015. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.