Jesse Darling’s work addresses the fallibility, adaptability and vulnerability of living beings, society and technologies. He has used his fellowship to explore the histories of extraction and exhumation, and to consider clay as a material formed from the architectural, ancestral, cultural, and corporeal bodies of our material world. This entanglement and the possibilities it offers for radically re-thinking our binaries of body and methodologies of living has enabled Darling to reflect on the condition of being human. It is an idea he continues to return to in his work as he considers our failures and inevitable decay and asks: what is allowed to live, what is allowed to die and what outlives us.
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Image credits: Jesse Darling, Enclosures, Camden Arts Centre, 2022, installation view. Photo: Eva Herzog.