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Baseera Khan I Am an Archive

rtists and thinkers—notably Michel Foucault with his 1969 publication —have been problematizing the concept of the archive for decades, particularly its reification of power. Perhaps the Foucauldian idea of the archive as that which establishes the possibility of what can be said—rather than a collection of facts and memories—aligns most closely with the concept behind Baseera Khan’s first museum solo exhibition “I Am an Archive,” which features

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