Paper Trails: Navigating the T.K. Sabapathy Archives showcases original documents, photographs, books, and artworks donated by the art historian, educator, writer and curator T.K. Sabapathy, as well as textual interventions by practitioners and students who have worked with these materials. Grounded in ideas from archival theory and practice, the display samples NUS Museum’s archival holdings, acting as an interstitial way of presenting these records to the public while the Museum continues its archiving processes.
In Paper Trails, an archive is figured as a vast geographical terrain through which we all navigate individually, but whose complexities can only be grasped collectively — a place of infinite pathways and possibilities. Rachel Lim, who graduated from NUS FASS in 2022, curates this display to distil the invisible and ongoing processes of archiving the holdings. Supervised by the Museum’s Curatorial Lead Siddharta Perez, Rachel co-conceived Paper Trails with Community Engagement’s Wardah Mohamad and Collections Officer Devi Murugaya.
Venue: NUS Museum, Resource Gallery
When: 16 Nov 2023 - 31 Dec 2024,
By: NUS Museum, NUS Centre For the Arts (CFA)
