In this month’s Brown Bag, meet Rachel, curatorial assistant for Paper Trails, managing editor of Plural Art Magazine, freelance writer and arts worker. Join her as she discusses the making of the exhibition and discover the invisible and ongoing processes of archiving NUS Museum’s holdings.

Find out what goes on behind the scenes at our Brown Bag talks—a tea-time conversation series between Museum staff and the NUS community.

About the exhibition

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. 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. 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.