Alexandre Singh at Metro Pictures
Artist: Alexandre Singh Venue: Metro Pictures, New York Exhibition Title: A Gentle Horror Date: October 11 – November 9, 2019 Click here to view slideshow Full gallery of images, press release, and link available after the jump. Images: Images courtesy of Metro Pictures, New York Press Release: Alexandre Singh’s first major exhibition at Metro Pictures features the New York premiere of his short film The Appointment (2019, 19 min). Singh transforms the gallery into an abandoned cinema from an imagined dystopic future. With trompe l’oeil wallpaper and flooring that is painstakingly hand-drawn, the exhibition includes sculpture and paintings that refer to the macabre vernacular of the film. The works further Singh’s ideas around narrative and storytelling, which he first began exploring in 2007 with his Faustian novella The Marque of the Third Stripe . A darkly comic thriller, the film is a tale of doubling and mistaken identity that embr...