'The captivating, revelatory world of Christopher Williams' by Jeremy Millar
November 2025
The first artwork one sees in Christopher Williams’ new exhibition in London might be mistaken for the title of the exhibition itself. It is also a column of condensed, all-caps, sans-serif text that lists the materials Williams uses in his practice, painted on the reverse of a sheet of glass and fixed high above our heads. “It was painted by hand here in London,” Williams tells me. “One of the few cities which still has an active culture of this kind of signage.” The idea for the work came from the sign, placed above the studio door of the 19th-century French photographer Eugène Atget, “Documents pour artistes”. Williams also wanted one that listed what he provides: wallcoverings, radio, printed matter, picture frames, photographs, films and arrangements.