Through installation, drawing, text, and sculpture, Darling works to expose how the systems of power – government, religion, ideology, technology and empire – can be as fragile and precarious as mortal bodies. Darling questions dominant narratives about the world and our lives together by making ordinary objects appear strange. By doing this, the artist invites us to look upon materials, histories and mythologies anew, and to reflect on the mortality within everything – where impermanence is the essential condition that binds us together.
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Image credits: Jesse Darling, No Medals No Ribbons, Modern Art Oxford, 2023, installation view. Photo: Ben Westoby.