Shubigi Rao
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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

The Study of Leftovers
Installation comprising objects, mixed media drawings, etchings etc.
2003 - 2004

The Study of Leftovers is an installation involving S. Raoul’s preoccupation with civilisation, extinction and human endeavour.

An assemblage of objects, drawings of ‘excavated’ objects, tools of the scientist, etc, the installation is private in nature; it invites us to peep into the study, to go through the papers and touch the objects. The work takes on the nature of an archaeological study of our civilisation, based on our litter and our detritus, organic and inorganic taken from particular locations in Singapore. Simply put, I reconstructed Singapore as an extinct civilisation from an archaeological study of its litter.

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