Artist

Jesse Darling

Born in Oxford, 1981 and lives in London & Berlin

Jesse Darling is an artist working in sculpture, installation, video, drawing, text, sound and performance. They live and work in Berlin.
Their work is broadly concerned with what it means to be a body in the world, though what that means is both politically charged and culturally determined. Their practice draws on their own experience as well as the narratives of history and counterhistory. To be a body is to be inherently vulnerable, which extends to the “mortal” quality of empires and ideas as a form of precarious optimism – nothing and noone is too big to fail, and this for JD is the starting point for a practice in which fallibility and fungibility are acknowledged as fundamental qualities in living beings, societies and technologies. Imagining the ‘high church of the modern’ as a moveable or precarious tabernacle, JD’s works and writing feature an array of free-floating consumer goods, liturgical devices, construction materials, fictional characters and mythical symbols detached from the architectures, hierarchies and taxonomies in which they have their place.
JD’s recent projects include the participation at Venice Biennale, Venice (2019), a solo show ‘Crevé’ at Triangle France – Astérides, Marseille (2019), a solo show as part of Art Now, Tate Britain, London (2018), a participation in ‘A Cris Ouverts’, Biennale d’art contemporain, Rennes (2018) and in ‘Metarmophõseõn’, Galerie Sultana, Paris (2018).

Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Grey
Grey is a very common colour in nature. The human eye can recognize the same object as grey or as any...
14 Jan 2016 - 20 Feb 2016
Milan
Exhibitions
Jesse Darling: The Ballad of Saint Jerome
Jesse Darling‘s exhibited works revisit the story of Saint Jerome and the lion, very popular during...
22 Sep 2018 - 24 Feb 2019
Tate Britain
London
Exhibitions
Body Splits
SALTS presents a group show Body Splits celebrating its 10 Years. The exhibition explores the representation...
14 Jun 2019 - 24 Aug 2019
SALTS
Basel
Exhibitions
Dissonant Healing
Controlled, scattered, analysed, thrown away. Transcendance, enlightment, evocative power. Contact engenders...
07 Jun 2019 - 26 Jul 2019
Bernheim Gallery
Zurich
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