CNN —Countless creative ideas have been born in the kitchen of Charleston House, the bohemian modernist farmhouse inhabited from 1916 by painters Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell in a rural part of southern England.
Courtesy Osman Yousefzada“What I do is try and tell working class stories in highbrow institutional spaces,” Yousefzada told CNN in a phone interview.
“Even now, generations on, Charleston is still a very aspirational and very privileged space, but I try and subvert that.., to open the space for working class voices,” said Yousefzada.
“A warning, caution.”"Unless you're signposted that having a creative life is OK, it's not an easy path to take," said Yousefzada.
I grew up in a restricted monoculture and so it took me a long time to find those (artistic) spaces.
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CNN, Charleston House, Bloomsbury, Charleston Trust “, Charleston Trust
Locations:
Charleston, England, Virginia, British, Birmingham, Iran, India, Turkey, London