Virgins

Jesse Darling, winner of the Turner Prize 2023

""They say we aren’t built for it. This species or another. Crewcut & fatigued, a swollen head on the box says thin-lipped,When most people talk about killing,they are like virgins talking about sex." Experiential and mapped, VIRGINS takes us on car rides, through hotel rooms and up close to meat viscera and enamel structures. Oscillating through binaries, concepts of innocence and experience are dragged by their creaturely haunches by ‘gathered clumps’ of characters who play, fight, bathe, fuck and browse on the burning pyre of old ideas." —Anne Boyer