Place:
Antigua Oficina de Correos y Telégrafos
Assembly instructions: (Tangential Logick, tangential Magick), 2008
Assembly Instructions is a loose structure of associations, created
from Xerox photocopies of books, pictures sourced from Flickr,
Wikipedia, and other materials. The individual collages are arranged
in framed grids ranging from a dozen to hundreds of examples, all
connected by hand-drawn, pencil dots. Tangential Logick looks at the system of thought of the psychedelic, the mentally ill and of dreamers, explored as a pyramid of linear, logical associations expanded upon to form giant, unwieldy structures of thought, which collapse upon the dreamer's waking, like a house of cards. Tangential Magick explores the conventions of magic tricks that are rooted in chains of cause and effect.
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Alexandre Singh
1980, Bordeaux. Lives and works in New York. Alexandre Singh's work explores a variety of media and exhibition formats, working with literature, collages, installation and performance. Recent exhibitions include: 3 Lectures + 1 Story = 4 Evening, Performa Biennial 09, White Columns, New York; Assembly Instructions (Tangential Logick), Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York; Hello Meth Lab in the Sun, Alexandre Singh & Justin Lowe & Jonah Freeman in collaboration, Ballroom, Marfa, Texas. Upcoming exhibitions include: Free, New Museum, New York, (2010); The School for Objects & The School for Objects Criticized, Monitor Gallery, Rome, Italy (2010). For Manifesta 8, he presents a complex series of drawings and Xerox collages, which he refers to as Tangential Logick and Tangential Magick.