WHAT
This is the first survey exhibition of the Indian-born, Singapore-based award-winning artist at the gallery. Her art, books, films, and photographs look at current and historical flashpoints as perspectival shifts to examining contemporary crises of displacement, whether of people, languages, cultures, or knowledge bodies. The survey offers a glimpse into the multi-layered world that the artist has built, covering her interests in archaeology, neuroscience, libraries, archival systems, histories and lies, literature and violence, ecologies and natural history.

WHY
The artist’s interest in the variety of topics isn’t a blind one. She critically thinks through the subjects she’s studied and examines contemporary crises through the lens of history. Her immersive and tongue-in-cheek works range from creating archaeological archives of garbage, writing ‘How to’ manuals for building a nation and a culture from scratch, discovering and diagnosing peculiar forms of urban malaise, building immortal jellyfish, to pseudo-museums regenerating mechanisms of knowledge accumulation, storage, and destruction.