Shubigi Rao: These Petrified Paths
WHAT
The India-born Singapore-based artist is renowned for her complex and layered art practices that interweave narratives and question knowledge and power. Her first survey in China showcases a captivating film that intertwines tales from Armenian communities, exploring shared identity and the importance of preserving knowledge. The exhibition takes viewers on a layered journey, transforming exhibition spaces into sacred, marginal, and active realms, inviting introspection and challenging oppressive structures.
WHY
Through fragmented experiences encompassing memory, written and spoken word, dialogue, terrain, and everyday existence, the exhibition illuminates overlooked infrastructures of knowledge and energy. It beckons viewers to introspect, prompting us to question prevailing narratives and embrace alternative voices.