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Jake Michael SingerAnabasis Murmur, Steel contemporary bird sculpture in steel2024
2024
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Jake Michael Singer works across different mediums, including sculpture, photography, drawing and painting. His art focuses primarily on materiality, myth, and catharsis.
Singer calls these sculptures “Murmurations”. The etymology of Murmuration stems from “murmur”, originating from the sanskrit “marmara”- a term describing the sound of wind rustling through the leaves of trees, or the sound of water flowing. The term Mumuration itself describes the phenomenon of emergent behaviour in birds. When they flock together performing a kind of sky ballet, the locus of control is miraculously distributed throughout the group. This kind of behaviour appears in schools of fish, humans running in crowds, neural networks and clusters of stars. In this way Singer sees the Murmurations as a life affirming celebration our collective humanity. The stainless steel rods used for these works are industrially produced for the purpose of fencing. Here a paradox is created, between a bird and a fence. A dialogue between freedom and security, an interchange of migration and captivity.
This is a paradox of moving and not moving. A paradox of what is mine and what is yours; of where I end and you begin, of birth and death, starting and finishing, creating and destroying, The decimeter between order and chaos. One is shifted to become many. Many are shifted to become one Something. And then nothing. The slippery edge of what is and what isn’t. These questions are important because they show how collective or individual identities are also metaphysical.
- Creator:Jake Michael Singer (1991, South African)
- Creation Year:2024
- Dimensions:Height: 60 in (152.4 cm)Width: 70 in (177.8 cm)Depth: 75 in (190.5 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Johannesburg, ZA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2342214068482
Jake Michael Singer
Most recently over the past two years Singer has focussed his attention toward large scale site specific installations in historically significant edifices of Istanbul Yedikule Hisarı (during the 17th Istanbul Biennal, 2022) and Küçük Mustafa Paşa Hamamı (2021). Other solo shows include Gallery Tiny, New York (2020), THK Gallery, Cape Town (2019), Matter Gallery Toronto (2018), Kalashnikovv Gallery, Johannesburg (2018), 50 Golbourne, London (2017), Punt WG, Amsterdam (2017), Hazard Gallery, Johannesburg (2016). Significant group shows include Zeitz MOCAA, Norval Foundation, Nirox Foundation, Kampala Biennale, Dakart, South-African-National-Gallery, DTIC Dubai, Nirox Foundation and Istanbul Biennale off (forthcoming). Singer holds a degree from Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town (2013) and has studied at Central Saint Martins, London. He is the recipient of the Eduordo Vila Foundation Grant in 2016 and 2017. Permanent public sculptures include Dawn Chorus (2019), Johannesburg; Roarks Evacuation Plan (2016), Johannesburg and Flume, Istanbul (forthcoming). Singer has completed residencies in Istanbul, Amsterdam, Kampala and Cologne. Singer is represented by THK Gallery in Cape Town, Matter Gallery in Toronto, Muse Contemporary in Istanbul. Singer and THK Gallery co-founded the Emergence Art Prize with Rand Merchant Bank in support of emerging artists in South Africa.
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