This artwork features a minimalist composition with a simple outline drawing of a hand within a wooden frame against a white background. The sparse use of line and form creates a stark, contemplative atmosphere. The artist employs a distinctive technique of using pencil or charcoal to sketch the hand in a gestural, almost meditative manner. This piece likely explores themes of introspection, the human experience, and the expressive potential of everyday objects and gestures. The understated style and lack of overt symbolism suggest the artist's intention to evoke a sense of quiet contemplation in the viewer. ...
Jesse 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 ...
Founded 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. ...
