Jesse Darling

Jesse Darling works across media, employing sculpture, installation, drawing, and text. A central concern of his practice is the critical examination of normative social, political, and symbolic structures. In doing so, he investigates the mechanisms and fault lines through which authority, the body, nation, religion, and technology are staged and contested.

Darling’s work reflects on the fundamentally precarious nature of social structures and systems of order. Deformed grid barriers—such as those used at demonstrations—crumbling architectural elements, and everyday objects are reconfigured to question assumptions of stability and linearity. His work, imbued with subtle and often sharp humor, positions itself as part of an open-ended, collective process of solidarity and action.

This solo exhibition not only marks the first comprehensive presentation of Darling’s work in the Berlin gallery space, but also engages with pressing social and artistic discourses. His aesthetic and conceptual explorations of the fragility of political systems, mechanisms of social exclusion, and structural violence intersect with questions currently at the forefront of debate in the Berlin art scene.