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

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
Released at the exhibition Useful Fictions, by Shubigi Rao
Published by Grey Projects and Math Paper Press


excerpts

Picture
Available here
and here
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