Rossi & Rossi is thrilled to be presenting the first ever survey of Indian-born Singaporean artist Shubigi Rao (b. 1975) in our Wong Chuk Hang space from 18 March to 13 May, 2023. 

Rao is known for her long-term, multidisciplinary projects, comprising layered installations of books, etchings, drawings, pseudo-scientific machines, metaphysical puzzles, video, ideological boardgames, garbage and archives. Her interests include archaeology, neuroscience, libraries, archival systems, histories and lies, literature and violence,ecologies and natural history.

Her art, books, films, and photographs look atcurrent and historical flashpoints as perspectival shifts to examiningcontemporary crises of displacement, whether of people, languages, cultures, orknowledge bodies. As an artist, Rao critically, poetically and wittily examinesthe systems of knowledge that structure our world. 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 where digital dandruff and pixel dust accumulate like lint and cloud the contemporary brain, building immortal jellyfish, to pseudo-museums regenerating mechanisms of knowledge accumulation, storage, and destruction.

Gallery address: 11F, M Place, 54 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Wong Chuk Hang