Zakir Hossain Khokan, a Bangladeshi construction supervisor in Singapore, was devastated when he learned the independent contemporary arts centre called The Substation was closing in July.Khokan, a two-time winner of the Migrant Worker Poetry Competition, was featured in a recent exhibition held in The Substation’s iconic 1920s grey-and-white building on Armenian Street. The exhibition in March focused on the island nation’s 1-million-strong low-wage foreign workforce. It was held just after…
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