White Cube Mason’s Yard is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Darren Almond. The artist’s work evocatively deals with time and duration as well as personal and historical memory through a practice that spans painting, film, sculpture, photography, and installation.

Darren Almond’s diverse practice evocatively deals with time and duration as well as personal and historical memory. Almond explores geographical limits and the means of getting there, dealing in particular with culturally specific notions of arrival and departure, in work that includes film, sculpture, photography, and installation. For his film projects, he seeks out far-flung and often inaccessible locations such as the Arctic Circle, Siberia, the holy mountains in China, and the source of the Nile.

In Bearing (2007), for example, he closely follows a sulphur miner in Indonesia on one of his daily routes, filming with a high-definition camera the worker’s intense journey from the mouth of a crater to the weighing station. In Schacta (2001), Almond filmed the activities of a Kazakhstani tin mine and set this against a haunting field recording of a female shaman musician during one of her performances.