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Broken signs, exhausted materials and ghostly symbols of authority turn the Palais de Tokyo into a landscape where power itself looks fragile.
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Notice the physical condition of things: damage and exhaustion are not incidental; they are part of the meaning.
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Darling transforms familiar civic and commercial structures into fragile, exhausted objects. Signs, barriers, fabrics and industrial materials look as though the systems they represent can barely support themselves, turning institutional power into something surprisingly vulnerable.
Jesse Darling (b. 1981) is a British artist and 2023 Turner Prize winner whose sculpture examines power, vulnerability, infrastructure and the bodies that must live within institutional systems.
Jesse Darling — Les Ambassadeurs
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