テート・ギャラリーのインスタグラム(tate) - 2月13日 22時31分

‘The idea of Eden, or “the garden” where all wild beings live together in peace and harmony, is interesting to me. This painting was made by two Flemish guys who never traveled outside Europe, so their rendition of wild beasts like tigers and lions (along with many animals belonging to the domestic landscape) echoes the colonial premise of terra incognita (the places on the map where Roman and Medieval cartographers used to write HIC SVNT LEONES - “here are lions”) being there for the taking, as though to “know” (and conquer) the land would dispel the lions somehow. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
The biblical story of Eve is also the central narrative in which woman - in Jerome's translation - becomes synonymous with “shame”, and with sin. I'm also interested in the serpent as the harbinger of knowledge, chaotic neutral and imbued full of the cyclical, spiral nature of life and death: the secret truth at the heart of everything, both feminine and masculine. In my reading the snake is not evil or fearful, but something to respect and acknowledge as part of life. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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As for Eden, I would prefer to think of it as a temporary autonomous zone produced by desire and necessity, rather than a walled garden whose pleasures are available to the obedient few.’ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
- @jessedarling
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#ArtNow artist Jesse Darling is taking over our Instagram, exploring the inspiration behind their exhibition at Tate Britain — The Ballad of Saint Jerome. Free entry. Link in bio.

Image credits:
Jesse Darling, Bird 2018, photographed by Tom Carter

Jesse Darling, The lion and batman in the garden (temporary relief) [detail] 2018, photographed by Tim Bowditch

Jesse Darling, Snake 2018, photographed by Tom Carter ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀
Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel, The garden of Eden with the fall of Man (Genesis 3:4), ca. 1615, The Hague, Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen

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