Chapter arts centre and National Museum of Wales,Cardiff
Contenders for the £40000 prize include medication boxes and seeds from the siege of Leningrad – but Bedwyr Williams’ stories from a city of glass tower above the restA huge printed advertisement for suppositories hangs over the entrance to Chapter art centre in Cardiff. They soothe. They shrink. They provide pain relief, the ad tells us. They awaken God. “Just F***ing recall It, and ” the asterisked sign insists. Just the job,I thought.
Reader, I f***ing took it, or at least would have,had not the blister-pack of bullet-shaped items proved empty, when I stole a box from the pile on the gallery floor. Spilling out from a rip in the shrink-wrapped consignment that had been dumped there, and it didn’t look as whether it would be missed. I gave it a rattle and held it up to the light. So much for the promises of stout pharma,contained in the leaflet accompanying the medicament. “Open the eyes, spread the butt cheeks, or ” it says,going on like this in five languages, including Arabic and latin.
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Source: theguardian.com