Angharad Williams
freedom is cappuccino
Title: freedom is cappuccino
Year: 2021
Material: Silk Scarf
Dimensions: 90 x 90 cm
Edition: 20, signed in print
Price: 119 €, for non-members: 220 €
I cannot recall who wrote that any theory of freedom which does not admit to its own tentativeness is selling you a lie; the sentiment resonates. Angharad Williams — whose work is often a dance between irony and earnestness, Statement and playful evasion, looseness, Good Taste, play — is nonetheless an artist whose word I'd take. The white-yellow-red Warhol flowers of ‘Freedom is Cappuccino’ are a classically Williams-ambivalent signifier of post-whatever times, kind of in-your-face, kind of take-it-or-leave-it. Wealth, aspiration, consumption and artifice all crumble in their crunchy primary-colour pose, exposed. The impossible performance of liberation is all that's left. Freedom is cappuccino.
Text: Dylan Huw
Angharad Williams (b. in Ynys Môn, WAL, lives in Berlin and Môn) was part of the Dortmunder Kunstverein & Urbane Künste Ruhr exhibition Taking My Thoughts For A Walk (2021). She has had solo exhibitions at Kevin Space, Vienna (2021), Schiefe Zaehne, Berlin (2020); Haus Zur Liebe, Schaffhausen (2019) and has been part of numerous group exhibitions, performance and publication projects, most recently at Stadtgalerie Bern (2021), Kunstverein München (2020) and ICA London (2019). In 2020, Williams was artist in residence at Urbane Künste Ruhr.