Jesse Darling

Born in 1981

Lives & works in Oxford

Jesse Darling’s multi-disciplinary practice considers how bodily subjects are initially formed and continuously reformed 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 maniĂšre dont les corps sont constituĂ©s puis continuellement transformĂ©s par le socio-politique. Jesse Darling s’inspire autant de sa propre expĂ©rience que des rĂ©cits de l’Histoire et leurs contre-histoires. Il explore la vulnĂ©rabilitĂ© inhĂ©rente au corps et la maniĂšre dont cette inĂ©vitable mortalitĂ© se traduit dans la structure des civilisations. Par l'utilisation de biens de consommation courants, de dispositifs de soutien, d'objets liturgiques, de matĂ©riaux de construction, ou encore de personnages fictifs et de symboles mythiques, Jesse Darling recontextualise les objets fabriquĂ©s par l’homme pour rĂ©vĂ©ler leur prĂ©caritĂ©. SimultanĂ©ment blessĂ©es et libĂ©rĂ©es, les formes mettent Ă  nu leur fragilitĂ© et leur besoin de soins et de guĂ©rison. En 2023, il a reçu le Turner Prize en Peinture.