Alexandre Singh on Gothic Literature, Cinema, and Storytelling

When I visited Alexandre Singh at his Brooklyn home-studio in mid-October, I was greeted at the entrance by a pile of strange totems and masks resting atop a filing cabinet. Despite the apparent patina of age, they had been produced from distinctly modern detritus: plastic milk jugs, sliced and molded to suggest leering human faces. The sculptures were made as props for Singh’s short film The Appointment (2019), a Gothic nightmare in the vein of German Romantic writer E.T.A. Hoffmann&rsquo