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A man wandering the National Library encounters a madman who speaks in footnotes and vandalised toilet cubicles scrawled with quotations without citations. In rooms, streets, archives, and forgotten corners of the city, lives unfold at the boundaries of etymology and the imaginary. Blending fiction, essay, and meditation, these works transform the landscapes of Singapore and beyond into territories of history, memory, and private archaeology. Here, the past does not simply recede. It returns in charged moments when fragments break free from the narratives that once confined them. An old event, an image, or a forgotten life emerges with new intensity, as if it had been waiting to be seen differently. History is no longer what has passed, but what flares up in the present, illuminating not only what once was, but what might have been. It lingers in objects, in gestures, in the silence between words - inviting the reader into a world where the act of looking is always also an act of remembering.

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Justin Loke is an interdisciplinary artist and curator. And he is fascinated by relationships between dictate, dichtung, and poetry. His achievements include receiving the Japan Foundation Arts Award (2009), and merits from the Della Butcher Prize (1999, 2000). He was also the writer and creative director for the highlight act of the 2022 Singapore Night Festival, Cathay Hotel: The Curse of The Missing Red Shoe. Loke is also the associate dictator of Vertical Submarine, with which he has received several awards including The President's Young Talent Award (Singapore, 2009), The Celeste Prize (New York, 2011), and a finalist position for the Sovereign Asian Art Prize (Hong Kong, 2015). They were also appointed Associate Artistic Director at T: >Works (2011-13), and featured in ROUNDTABLE: The 9th Gwangju Biennale (2012). He first met Jeremy Fernando with the pickup line ""Hi Jeremy"" ... and the rest is literature ...

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