The urban is where we all live in ‘the West’. Even people who live in the country really live in the city, because it’s the norm, it’s on their screens, it’s where their news comes from, it’s where all the stuff comes from. Even when turning your back on it, it defines the activity itself, it controls the turning. The human condition – it’s a pompous phrase but I can’t think of a better – implies the urban. Narratives of all kinds cross each other more the closer you are to the denser areas of population. London carries on glowing with the overload of it all, filthy, glorious. I am currently doing a PhD, trying to understand what I have been up to in the past thirty years. Also this year I am curating an exhibition with Francesca Ibbotson Flowers in Duneen, Ireland, called ‘Wash 2’, judging the Hermione Hammond Drawing Prize at the FBA, having a solo show at Studio 1.1 on Redchurch Street, London, and I am a British Council fellow at the Venice Biennale, pursuing my own research and stewarding the British Pavilion. www.charleswilliamsartist.com @Swiftcharles #wearebuildinganewandbetterworld
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