Curatorview [Alfredo Cramerotti]

Exhibition
Angharad Williams: Picture the Others 
February 19–June 12, 2022

Picture the Others is the first institutional solo exhibition by Welsh artist and writer Angharad Williams. This new commission will consist of a large-scale installation presented across MOSTYN’s gallery spaces and will include film, painting, sculpture, and text. Williams’s practice reflects on the relationship between the individual and wider societal structures. The exhibition, curated by Juliette Desorgues (Curator of Visual Arts, MOSTYN) will be accompanied by live elements such as a performance and workshops in addition to the project titled The Wig that will include film, writing and publishing by the artist and other contemporary artists.

Angharad Williams is an artist living in Ynys Môn and Berlin. Recent solo exhibitions include High Horse, Kevin Space, Vienna (2021); Without the Scales, Schiefe Zähne, Berlin (2020); Witness, Haus Zur Liebe, Schaffhausen, Switzerland (2019); Island Mentality, Peak, London (2019); and Scarecrows, LISZT, Berlin (2018). Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions including: Jerwood Arts, London (2021), Stadtgalerie Bern (2021) and Kunstverein Munich (2020). Performances have taken place at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2020); ICA, London (2019); and Radiophrenia, Glasgow (2017).

Supported by Foundation Foundation, Arts Council Wales, The Henry Moore Foundation, The Megan Gwynne-Jones Charitable Trust.

The Wig
19 February – 12 June, 2022

The Wig is an ongoing, accumulative project between Gianmaria Andreetta, Jason Hirata, Megan Plunkett, Richard Sides and Angharad Williams. 

The project’s title borrows from the notion of “La Perruque“ (“The Wig“ in English), first introduced by philosopher Michel de Certeau in his groundbreaking book The Practice of Everyday Life. Published in 1984, it looked at the still relevant issues of the value we attach to the objects around us in contrast to the value we perceive in those who make them. 

 “The Wig“ broadly refers to anything done under the guise of work, but is in fact not work, or not the work one is supposed to be doing. Practicing “The Wig“ can be as simple as writing personal emails during office hours, using the company photocopier to print private invitations, or using someone else’s time for one’s own. For its current form at MOSTYN, the project will feature a collaborative video developed by the participants as well as reading material and resources shared between the artists in their ongoing conversations.

Online programme
McKenzie Wark podcast series: The Artist-Publisher
February 1–5, 2022 

In this podcast series, writer McKenzie Wark talks to artists who are also publishers and publishers whose work is a kind of art practice. Zines and books, made cheaply or by the thousands, or web-based journals available for free—these seem antithetical to the unique work of art. And yet the creation of meaning around art practices requires this other kind of practice of publishing written works. Contributors include Jacqueline de Jong and GB Jones amongst others. 

McKenzie Wark is the author, among other things, of Philosophy for Spiders: on the low theory of Kathy Acker (Duke University Press 2021) and The Beach Beneath the Street: the Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International (Verso 2011). She is professor of culture and media at The New School in New York City.