Jesse Darling, a contemporary Berlin-based artist, produces sculptures, paintings, and drawings that animate material to depict a lived experience of queerness and disability. This article highlights a recent exhibition of Darling’s as an entry point to their wide-ranging practice. Refracted through the lens of Sara Ahmed’s concept of feminist ‘willfulness’, Darling’s objects depict the body as unruly, unpredictable, and given to change, making them exciting candidates for both disability and trans studies. At a moment in contemporary art and cultural production more broadly when gender-nonconformity is signaled through an attempt to erase bodily markers of specificity, Darling insists on such specificity as the inescapability of the human experience.

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杰西·达林 (Jesse Darling) 是一位居住在柏林的当代艺术家，他创作的雕塑、绘画和素描使材料栩栩如生，以描绘酷儿和残疾的生活体验。本文重点介绍了 Darling's 最近的一个展览，作为他们广泛实践的切入点。通过 Sara Ahmed 的女权主义“任性”概念的镜头折射，Darling 的物品将身体描绘为不守规矩、不可预测且愿意改变，使它们成为残疾和跨性别研究的令人兴奋的候选人。在当代艺术和文化生产中更广泛的时刻，当性别不一致通过试图消除特殊性的身体标记而发出信号时，达林坚持认为这种特殊性是人类经验的不可避免性。