Lantian Xie on Deepak Unnikrishnan

Itinerant fictions concretize an artist’s identity

DEEPAK UNNIKRISHNAN Temporary People 2017 Paperback anthology, 240 pages. Published by Restless Books, New York. Courtesy Lantian Xie. Deepak Unnikrishnan is a writer from Abu Dhabi whose work has fundamentally shaped the contours of my thinking, and whose ethics have taught me how to practice and how to belong. He is one of maybe six or seven people I imagine when I think of the people for whom I make things, and to whom those things are dedicated. We met—as kids from the Emirates often do— elsewhere: in Chicago, where we were both studying some years ago. Our first conversation lasted damn-near half a day, and in that conversation Deepak articulated affectionately the timbre and fictions of this place we call home, in a way that I had then only…

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ArtAsiaPacific (Digital) - 1 Issue, Mar/Apr 2017

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