THE MULTI-HYPHENATE
Oct 28, 2020
4 minutes
TEXT Donna Tang
PHOTOGRAPHY
Phyllicia Wang
ART DIRECTION
Ray Ticsay STYLING
Debby Kwong
HAIR & MAKEUP
Angel Gwee, using
Shu Uemura & Kevin.Murphy
You might be forgiven for thinking of Shubigi Rao as a writer, since her book Pulp II: A Visual Bibliography of the Banished Book just swept the Singapore Literature Prize 2020 for Creative Nonfiction in English, but the multi-talented 45-year-old really defies definition.
For one thing, Mumbai-born Shubigi is also an award-winning multi-disciplinary artist who makes layered installations of films, books, etchings, drawings, pseudo-scientific machines, metaphysical puzzles, video works, ideological board games, and archives, and who will be exhibiting in a major biennial and triennial next year. For another, she was
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