The multifarious practice of Alexandre Singh (*1980) is fuelled by a need to challenge traditional modes of narrative. Utilizing installation, performance, literature, drawing, sculpture and film, Singh has an incredibly broad range of references from all facets of culture. Inserting these into new and unfamiliar, contexts he aims to create open-ended dialogues that focus on the complex relationship between language and visualization.
Alexandre Singh
The School for Objects Criticized AE
April 30–June 25, 2016
Berlin
Alexandre Singh presents his installation The School for Objects Criticized AE. At first, it appears to be an elegant, theatrically-lit readymade installation in which seemingly banal objects – a bottle of bleach, a toaster, two cassette recorders, a derivative abstract sculpture, a stuffed skunk and a slinky toy – are presented on pedestals much like important historic sculptures are in museums. But the installation soon reveals itself to be an elaborate, dramatic set-up. With astonishment, viewers come to realize that not only can these inanimate objects speak, they also have dramatic, finely-contoured characters and fascinating relationships to one another.
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