Jesse Darling, recently returned to the U.K. after living in Berlin and now teaching at Oxford’s Ruskin School of Art, uses unorthodox combinations of everyday materials and found objects to endow his assemblages and installations with potent lyricism and sociopolitical critique.
By combining personal experience, perspectives on the history and culture of the Persian Gulf region, and investigations into the many tentacles of the petrochemical industry, Berlin-based Kuwaiti artist Monira Al Qadiri produces works that impel us to contend with our ongoing relationship to and dependence on crude oil.
Tehran-born, London-based Reza Aramesh describes his choice of subject matter as “necessary for the moment we are in.” Neither protest not political crusade, his figures of anonymous men explore violence in its most banal and insidious forms.
