Drawing Room Confessions #1: Charles Avery

(…) An Islander would say that consistency is local truth, that authenticity is a place, an old ruin, somewhere off the old road out of town. I don’t think a system needs to be pure. The axioms at its centre (I prefer to say centre rather than base) are essentially pure, but towards its margins the system is indistinct, as it mingles with other systems. I am for a revolution that puts Reality and Fiction as two equal sets which are members of one another (…)

THE CAST

CHARLES ……………………………………. Charles Avery1
THE EGOIST ……………………………………. Robin Mackay2
THE BLIND MAN ……………………………………. Evelyn Fishburn3
TANGO ……………………………………. Angus Cameron4

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Made of words and exchanges, with no images, Drawing Room Confessions is open to diverse practices and voices. It is named after a game played at the end of the nineteenth century in England and France, which consisted of a fixed questionnaire answered by players to reveal their tastes, aspirations and personalities. For every issue of the journal, we invite one artist to play the serious and playful game of conversation. Each section follows a set of rules, only the players change, as interviewers from a wide range of fields contribute to a portrait of the artist at a certain time.