Jesse Darling

Born in 1981

Lives & works in Oxford, UK

Jesse Darling’s multi-disciplinary practice considers how bodily subjects are initially formed and continuously transformed through sociopolitical influences. Jesse Darling draws on his own experience as well as the narratives of history and counter-history. He explores the inherent vulnerability of being a body, and how the inevitable mortality of living things translates to civilizations and structures. Featuring an array of free-floating consumer goods, support devices, liturgical objects, construction materials, fictional characters and mythical symbols, Jesse Darling’s work recontextualizes manmade objects to reveal their precarity. Simultaneously wounded and liberated shapes outwardly bare their frailty and need for care and healing. In 2023, he was awarded the Turner Prize 2023 in Painting.

La pratique pluridisciplinaire de Jesse Darling explore la manière dont les corps sont constitués puis continuellement transformés par le sociopolitique. Jesse Darling s’inspire autant de sa propre expérience que des récits de l’Histoire et de la contre-histoire. Il explore la vulnérabilité inhérente au corps et la manière dont cette inévitable mortalité se traduit dans les civilisations et les structures. Par l’utilisation de biens de consommation courants, d’appareils de soutien, d’objets liturgiques, de matériaux de construction ou encore de personnages fictifs et de symboles mythiques, Jesse Darling recontextualise les objets fabriqués par l’homme pour révéler leur précarité. À la fois blessées et libérées, les formes mettent à nu leur fragilité et leur besoin de soins et de guérison. En 2023, il a reçu le Turner Prize en Peinture.

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Sep 13, 2024 – Feb 9, 2025

TransformingKunst Raum Mitte, Berlin, DEGroup show with Green Papaya Art Projects, Robert Lippok, Minh Duc Pham, Katrin Steiger and Pam Virada
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Aug 30, 2024 – Jan 19, 2025

I'm Sorry, this Space Is ReservedNikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, DKGroup show with Corban Walker, Emilie Louise Gossiaux, Estela Lapponi, Joseph Grigely, Luna Scales, Maiken Bent, Maria Koshenkova, and Robert Andy Coombs
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Oct 7, 2023 – Jan 21, 2024

Interdependencies: Perspectives on Care and ResilienceMigros Museum, ZĂĽrich, CHSolo show
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May 3 – Jun 1, 2024

UntitledSultana, Paris, FRSolo show
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Feb 18 – May 14, 2023

Exposé·esPalais de Tokyo, Paris, FRGroup show with Les Ami·e·s du Patchwork des noms, Bambanani Women’s Group, Bastille, Yann Beauvais, Black Audio Film Collective, Gregg Bordowitz, Jesse Darling, Moyra Davey, Guillaume Dustan, fierce pussy, Nan Goldin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Hervé Guibert, Barbara Hammer, Derek Jarman, Michel Journiac, Zoe Leonard, Audrey liebot, Pascal Lièvre, Santu Mofokeng, Jean-Luc Moulène, Henrik Olesen, Bruno Pélassy, Benoît Piéron, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Jimmy Robert, Régis Samba-Kounzi & Julien Devemy, Marion Scemama, Lionel Soukaz & Stéphane Gérard, Georges Tony Stoll, Philippe Thomas, David Wojnarowicz & arms ache avid aeon: fierce pussy amplified (Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard, Carrie Yamaoka, fierce pussy and Jo-ey Tang
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Oct 12 – Oct 16, 2023

MiserereSt James church, London, UKSolo show
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Jun 30 – Aug 25, 2023

Nous buvons le soleilSultana Summer Set, Arles, FRGroup show with Donna Gottschalk, Dorothy Iannone and Nanténé Traoré
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Mar 5 – May 1, 2022

No Medals No Ribbons Modern Art Oxford, UKSolo show
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May 13 – Jun 26, 2022

EnclosuresCamden Art Center, London, UKSolo show
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Oct 13 – Nov 25, 2019

Selva OscuraSultana, Paris, FRSolo show
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