In a society where kissing is punishable by death and people pay for things by slaps to the face, Angine, an unhappy woman, shops compulsively in a department store. There, she becomes fascinated by an ingenuous salesgirl. The two become close, raising the suspicions of a jealous colleague.
Alexandre Singh was born in 1980 in Bordeaux, France, and lives and works in New York. He will have an upcoming exhibition in 2019 at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Over 2012 and 2013, his play The Humans was developed and premiered at Witte de With, Rotterdam. It was later presented at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, as part of Performa 13 in 2013. He has had one-person exhibitions at the Drawing Center, New York; Palais de Toyko, Paris; Ballroom Marfa, Texas; and Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany. He has additionally participated in group exhibitions at S.M.A.K., Ghent; Guggenheim Museum, New York; New Museum, New York; MoMA PS1, New York; SculptureCenter, New York; Hayward Gallery, London; and CNAP Centre national des arts plastiques, Brussels. His work has also been included in the Whitney Biennial, Lyon Biennial, and Manifesta 8.
NATALIE MUSTEATA is a writer, curator, and filmmaker. She holds a Doctorate in art history and a Masters in film from The GraduateCenter, CUNY. She is the curator of several exhibitions including if I can’t dance to it, it’s not my revolution, Haverford College, and UNREST: Revolt against Reason. In 2018, she produced Singh’s richly imaginative short film The Appointment, which played in over 40 film festivals winning several awards, as well as co-curated the exhibition A Gothic Tale at the Legion of Honor Museum, SanFrancisco. In 2024, she co-wrote, directed, and produced with Singh the medium-length French-language film TWO PEOPLE EXCHANGING SALIVA.
