Useful Fictions
'When faced with unknowable realities, we contrive epistemes and narratives that become
useful fictions, helping to strain the world into our understanding. Shubigi Rao’s new works on paper concern themselves with the consequence of these fictions, through the act of drawing and her characteristic play with language. Genealogies become lies, information shown as
partisan, categories revealed as arbitrary.'
-Jason Wee
This catalogue includes a short piece by Shubigi Rao, as well as new writing by Jason Wee, Dana Lam, and Amanda Lee Koe, created in
conversation with her
useful fictions, helping to strain the world into our understanding. Shubigi Rao’s new works on paper concern themselves with the consequence of these fictions, through the act of drawing and her characteristic play with language. Genealogies become lies, information shown as
partisan, categories revealed as arbitrary.'
-Jason Wee
This catalogue includes a short piece by Shubigi Rao, as well as new writing by Jason Wee, Dana Lam, and Amanda Lee Koe, created in
conversation with her
Released at the exhibition Useful Fictions, by Shubigi Rao
Published by Grey Projects and Math Paper Press
Published by Grey Projects and Math Paper Press
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