Sculptor Manish Nai likes loitering at raddiwallahs. "I have a tendency to collect discarded material from raddi shops and wholesalers: used cloth, cardboard boxes," he says. His latest exhibition, Paper City and Ghost Modernity, at Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, came about because he started collecting cheap novels and pirated books.

"I have between 5,000 and 10,000 books in my studio. In my work I have often used jute and cardboard, compressed them, and seen the result. In the beginning, I thought I will do this compression with the books. I have made a couple of such works [this time], in which I have poured water on the books over one to two months." Of the 15 pieces in the exhibition, several are misshapen books, while one specific sculpture doesn't even look like it's made of paper.