At its core Singleton’s practice is an exercise in provocative storytelling, with a focus on highlighting the stark contradictions and intersecting inequities that govern our lives. The paintings presented at this exhibition demonstrate her mastery at combining traditional and nontraditional media and techniques and juxtaposing disparate artistic and historical references in the service of richly layered yet accessible narratives that have a visceral effect.

Mathematical Knot deals with climate change and how it affects different segments of the society. This piece depicts a near future devastated by pollution and climate change. Cars perpetually drive on a highway made of human skin, while people with the means to address the crisis passively look on from the protection of a glass tower.

Dress was painted after a safari trip to Botswana, where the local population is working to protect endangered animals from poachers. In this work, A mother and baby elephant are displayed on a womb-like stage, exposed to the gaze of theatre-full spectators. The scene is neatly fitted into an evening dress form, which allows the painting to be read as an allegory about the harms of the objectifying and exoticizing gaze in all its manifestations.

Tragicomedy is a visual representation of a place where Murphy’s Laws rule supreme; a uniformly chaotic world where each tragedy ends with another, to the point of ridiculousness. This piece exemplifies the disruptive dark humor with which Singleton’s paintings scrutinize our choices, hypocrisies, and convictions.