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Selected work · 2020s · Mixed media · © Darren Bader, courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London
Darren Bader
Conceptual artist pairing disparate objects, words, and absurd associations into sculpture that refuses to stay still.
Darren Bader works from the premise that everything — a word, a whale, a pile of trash — can be sculpture if the relationship between things is strange enough. His practice spans word works, impossible pairings, collaborative installations, and arrangements that force unlikely objects into conversation.
The work resists category by design. A performance becomes a sculpture becomes a text becomes a collaboration, often within the same exhibition. The juxtapositions are deliberate but never didactic — absurd in the service of attention.
He has exhibited at the Whitney Museum, MACRO Rome, and institutions internationally, and maintains an active relationship with Sadie Coles HQ in London.
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sadiecoles.com / Bader →
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