Jesse Darling is the ‘artist’ who has won this years Turner Prize for her exhibition of crowd control barriers, barbed wire and tattered Union Jack flags that apparently reflect her view of the effects of austerity, Brexit, the pandemic, the “hostile environment” of immigration policy and modern British life in general.
“You have to love something to be able to critique it. I was born in this country and I’m looking at what’s going on here. I wanted to make a work that reflected that, and I wanted to make work about Britain and the British public” said Darling.
Judges gushed about her use of common objects like barriers, hazard tape, office files and net curtains “to convey a familiar yet delirious world. Invoking societal breakdown, his presentation unsettles perceived notions of labour, class, Britishness and power”.
Wow! That’s a lot to digest there. Here is me thinking it was a load of old shite that should have been thrown in a skip. I must be missing the nuances of the net curtains and the anti-pigeon spikes. Look, no-one is pretending the country is in a great state because it isn’t but this pile of crap and the waffling of arty farty bellends is both patronizing to people struggling and minimizes the very real problems we face. Maybe a piece on the attack of free speech, radical gender ideology in schools and the denigration of British history would be a more appropriate commentary?
She will now probably be considered the new enfant terrible of the British art world when really its just terrible art. My entry of a rainbow coloured dog shit with an EU flag planted in it was “thought-provoking” but ultimately lacked depth and didn’t speak to the judging panel. Maybe I should have stuck it on top of a traffic cone?
BBC News
*Jesse Darling is transgender and in the write-up I refer to her as a female because biological sex is real and it isn’t my job to validate her mental disorder.
Nominated by: Liberal Liquidator
