Issue

FX HARSONO, Undisclosed Identity, 2016, 59 lightboxes with LED light, digital print on duratrans film, acrylic sheet, LED running text and 15 stools, dimensions variable. Courtesy

Singapore: FX Harsono

PINAREE SANPITAK, Clouds, 2009-10, installation of cast aluminium sculptures, dimensions variable. Courtesy Pinaree Sanpitak and Thavibu Gallery, Bangkok.

Bangkok: Pinaree Sanpitak

Mumbai: Avantika Bawa

FAHD BURKI, Lullaby, 2010, acrylic on paper, 152 x 122 cm. Courtesy The Jam Jar, Dubai, and Grey Noise, Lahore.

Dubai: Fahd Burki

HRAIR SARKISSIAN, Execution Squares, 2008, lamda print mounted on aluminium, 125 x 160 cm. Courtesy Kalfayan Galleries, Athens / Thessaloniki.

Abu Dhabi: Disorientation II

BHARTI KHER, Indra's Net Mirror 1, 2010, bindis on mirror, wooden frame. 192 x 109 x 6.4 cm. Photo by Mike Bruce. Courtesy Bharti Kher and Hauser & Wirth, London.

London: Bharti Kher

Illustration by Greg Grabowy.

THE POINT: Dirty Dealings

JEFFREY VALLANCE, The Brown Wall, 2008, mixed media with found objects, 243.8 x 426.7 cm. Photo by Joshua White. Courtesy the artist and Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles.

ARCHIVES: Inside a Pacific Love Affair

CHRIS CHONG CHAN FUI, BLOCK B, 2008, a 20-minute film in which a stationary camera documents a day in life of the tenants of a massive apartment complex in Malaysia. Photo by Pang

CLOSE READ: Serious Staring

Graffiti by 2Tone on a brick wall in Auckland, 2010. Courtesy the artist.

PERSPECTIVE: Back on Tracks

CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI, Les Abonnés du Téléphone (detail), 2000. Installation view at Musee d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, 2000. Courtesy the artist.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: An Epidemic of Archive Fever

INTERVIEW: Fang Lijun

SHAHZIA SIKANDER, Bending the Barrels, 2009, digital video, 20 min. In the video, a series of ambiguously worded military pronouncements are superimposed onto footage of a Pakistan

IN DEPTH: Shahzia Sikander

SARNATH BANERJEE at his residence in New Delhi, 2010. Photo by Hemant Sareen.

PERSONAL HISTORY: Sarnath Banerjee