In Murmurs is the first solo exhibition by contemporary artist Jake Michael Singer in Cape Town.
Born in South Africa in 1991, Jake Michael Singer is a multidisciplinary artist. He completed his bachelor’s at Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town in 2013, after deepening his learning over the course of 2012 at Central Saint Martins in London.
In Murmurs is an exhibition comprising sculpture, photography and painting. “I have called it In
Murmurs for two reasons. One: The main corpus of the show comprises my Murmurations. Two: I think a murmur is the perfect way of speaking because it’s soft and gentle, yet echoes everlastingly.It’s an expedient and effective gesture, fulfilling its role and then passing away like a breath, like an orgasm, like that small quark of energy that keeps us alive and vanishes in death. Big things start in the small.”
“Some things lead and some things follow
Some breathe gently and some breathe hard
Some are strong and some are weak
Some destroy and some are destroyed.”
– Jake Michael Singer, 2019