Justin Loke is recognised by some as an artist and curator, and is part of the Singapore-based collective Vertical Submarine. His work has been shown at venues such as the National Gallery Singapore and Saatchi Gallery London, and featured in major exhibitions including the Gwangju Biennale. From 2010 to 2012, he served as Associate Artistic Director at TheatreWorks Singapore with his collective. He has received the President’s Young Talents Award, the Celeste Prize, and the Japan Foundation Arts Award. A text-based artist, his visual practice often revolves around conceptual narrative structure, language, and literary forms.
Illiteratus, dedicated to his solo projects, is where he writes first as a reader. If he writes at all, it is only to read better. This space gathers marginalia: unauthorised translations, intertextual notes, fictions, prose, poems, and reflections. His interests lie in history, philosophy, philology, and etymology, with a reading path that moves through Spanish and Latin American literature (especially Argentinian), German, French, East Asian studies, and geopolitics. Questions of quotation and authorship recur throughout both his written and visual work.
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