Iarlaith Ni Fheorais (DAI, 2023) writing for Frieze about Jesse Darling’s Malleable Bodies ~ two exhibitions at Modern Art Oxford and Camden Arts Centre, London: "Darling’s work refuses the ordering and categorization of the colonial state, showing us that the body is beyond fixity. It bends, transforms and breaks. Though many institutions now demand work on care and resistance, I refuse to engage in clichés about the solace that art can provide in difficult times, or its capacity to be an amorphous means of resistance. As Darling gracefully reminds us at MAO and CAC, like our fragile, mortal impermanent selves, power and its grip on our bodies will inevitably wither and fade. As Darling states in conversation with the MAO curator Amy Budd, ‘it’s a hopeful feeling to know even empires fall, kings topple and governments are overthrown." On an entirely different note: Iarlaith's article also contains a great quote from Sebastian De Line ( DAI, 2016). Yay ! Find a link to the text here.

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