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  • View of “Jesse Wine,” 2022–23. From left: 75 Heath Lane, 2022; 2 North Street, 2022. Photo: Patrick Jameson.

    View of “Jesse Wine,” 2022–23. From left: 75 Heath Lane, 2022; 2 North Street, 2022. Photo: Patrick Jameson.

    Jesse Wine

    The Modern Institute | Aird’s Lane

    Jesse Wine’s recent solo exhibition “Both” was an apt reminder that, after the difficult past few years, we now need to rest and daydream in order to imagine other ways of living. The work felt robustly teenage in its melodrama. Wine uses traditional forms of sculpture to capture not the majesty of life but the point at which our bodies start to feel like they’re about to burst out of their boundaries. Among the sculptures on view were two wall pieces showing cross sections of houses and named after the addresses where Wine lived with his parents as he was growing up in Chester, UK. In 2 North

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