Synopsis:
For his new exhibition Immortality Project I at Sullivan+Strumpf Singapore, sculptor Sam JInks develops his interrogation of the human condition through Ernest Becker's seminal text The Denial of Death. Beckers's concept of "the immortality project" is one in which the individual focuses on the symbolic self, generating a personal belief system that seeks to be part of something that won't die with the physical body - something eternal. This sets up the basic duality of humanness that exists between the physical world and the symbolic world of meaning. Jinks' own personal immortality project depicts his wife Emma as Medusa with a tangle of snakes in her hair, oversized and commanding. Here Jinks invites the viewers to look directly into the face of a human connection that transcends the physical, but is excruciatingly mortal in its essence - an exercise in facing duality.
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