Jesse Darling
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(1) Visual Elements: The image depicts a simple, minimalist composition featuring a single white candle placed on a wooden stand. The candle's soft, warm glow contrasts with the neutral, muted background, creating a sense of tranquility and focus. (2) Subject Matter: The central subject is the candle, a universal symbol of light, warmth, and contemplation. The wooden stand provides a simple, functional support for the candle, highlighting its importance as the main focal point. (3) Artistic Style and Technique: The artwork employs a minimalist, reductive approach, emphasizing the inherent beauty and significance of the candle as an everyday object. The composition is clean and uncluttered, allowing the viewer to fully engage with the candle's simple, yet powerful presence. (4) Context: This artwork may reflect the artist's intention to explore the meditative and symbolic qualities of the candle, inviting the viewer to pause and appreciate the beauty and meaning in the mundane. ...
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Jesse Darling
B.1981, BritishJesse Darling (b. Oxford, UK) is an artist based in London and Berlin working in sculpture, installation, text and sound. His practice delves into the fallibility, adaptability, and vulnerability of living beings, societies, and technologies. Using everyday materials like steel, plastic, and objects found in most households, Jesse fosters connections between individual existence and collective humanity, reflecting on impermanence and the shared condition that binds us together. Jesse is the winner of the Turner Prize 2023 ...
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Sultana
ParisFounded in 2010 by Guillaume Sultana, Sultana collaborates with emerging international artists. The gallery space operates as a site for experimentation and expression, often bringing together well-established and lesser known artists through a playful, yet politically-engaged curatorial program that highlights practices concerned with questions of identity and their social ramifications. By giving space to curators and writers, in addition to artists, the gallery is committed to rethinking the traditional modes of exhibition-making and collaboration within the art world. In 2021, Sultana opened Sultana Summer Set Arles to convene artists, collectors, curators, and friends close to the gallery in a domestic and intimate space in the heart of the city. This space was conceived as a residency and site of exchange, to host projects angled toward creative freedom, reflection, and flânerie that eschews a regular programming schedule, and is organized instead according to the whims and desires of our community. These two spaces exemplify the spirit of Sultana: the desire to provide artists with an independent platform for expression via site-specific projects and curatorial propositions. ...