A Thousand words Mike Nelson Talks about his recent work.

Last year I installed three big pieces between May and October: The Deliverance and the Patience at the Venice Biennale; The Cosmic Legend of the Uroboros Serpent, my Turner Prize presentation at Tate Britain; and between these, Nothing is True. Everything is Permitted (titled after a quote from eleventh-century Assassins founder Hassan-i Sabbah), which opened at London's Institute of Contemporary Art in late September.

I intended that installation as a harsh polemic. Less enjoyable and seductive than the other two, it's a complicated piece that I'm still working out for myself. In ...

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