Jake Singer
Galleries
Cape Town to Umfuleni Study (2014)
- steel rods
- photographic prints on perspex
- suspension cable
- scaffolding
Cape town to Umfuleni study
Jake Singer creates movement using static images to dislodge space. Inviting the viewer to actively engage, the work encourages observation from all angles. These photographic sculptures come to life as reflections of a city explored, exempting the image from its static nature.
Artist statement
"In Cape Town to Umfuleni Study I am interested in how structures translate across spatial boundaries. I attempt to subvert the centre/periphery dichotomy by exploring notion of structural fragility in the study. This idea becomes politicized when one is to consider the radical social and economic differences between these two spaces. The process of photographing these two spaces was organic: I began in the city, playing the flaneur, investigating a space that I am familiar with. After a chance encounter in the city with a hip hop artist, I ended up in a township called Umfuleni. As much as Cape Town to Umfuleni Study is about a contrast or relation between structures across space, its also about a dialogue between the people who live in those structures."
About the artist
Born in Johannesburg 1991, Singer went to boarding school in the Kwa-Zulu Natal midlands and graduated in 2013 from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, with a exemption in studio practice. He has studied at Central Saint Martins in the United Kingdom and assisted William Kentridge with 'The Refusal of Time' in 2012. Singer will be exhibiting at the 2014 Nirox Winter Sculpture Fair in the Cradle of Humankind in May.