In his solo exhibition at Arcadia Missa, Jesse Darling continues to discover the contradictions and complexities of the current steady and previous imperfect, utilizing a multidisciplinary strategy that spans sculpture, drawing, set up, and textual content. The works on show mirror on different histories and the speculative current, all the time enjoying between the acquainted and the unusual. Within the foreground of his follow, Darling underscores the company, fragility, and subversiveness of life as it’s mirrored within the residing world and the constructed setting, societies, applied sciences, the hubris and need of human beings, and the objects we collect round ourselves as narrative totems. Utilizing discovered and sculpted objects based mostly in on a regular basis supplies and customary client and industrial items, Darling makes connections between particular person existence and collective expertise. The medium is all the time the message, and these objects converse on a register all of us recognise, someplace between the instrument and the relic and the commodity fetish.

at Arcadia Missa, London
till October 25, 2024