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At the opening of Hospital at the South London Gallery, William Pope.L s first major institutional UK show since 2011, the US artist talked about the themes of care and precarity in his work. With his sudden death just weeks later, in December 2023, that work has gained added resonance
Pope.L called himself a “fisherman of social absurdity.” He once crawled along New York’s Broadway in a Superman costume and ate scraps of the Wall Street Journal while sitting on a toilet.