“I’m not a particularly sad person,” the British artist Ed Atkins once said, with a rueful giggle, “but a lot of the work ends up coming out quite miserable.” You don’t say! Saturated with references ...
Despite the pain, the sorrow, the agony, the despair, the self-loathing and horror going on, this exhibition at Tate Britain will leave only the most resolutely dried up anti-human cold. Ed Atkins isn ...
In Ed Atkins’ world, bodies are restless, weightless and deeply confused. They float, moan, glitch, laugh and sometimes fall apart entirely, moving through the world as if constantly reminded of their ...
HMSGMAI copy 39088019741750 purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Published for British artist Ed Atkins (born 1982) major video/installation art commission at the New Museum in ...
Rebecca Saunders has collaborated with the artist Ed Atkins to create “Lash,” a work that hovers around themes of illness and intimacy. By Jeffrey Arlo Brown Reporting from Berlin Toward the end of ...
The film by Ed Atkins and Steven Zultanski combines a performative reading of Philip Atkins’ (Ed’s father) diary, written during the six months leading up to his death, with the reenactment of The ...
For Ed Atkins, Marten’s "Evian Disease" embodies ‘flatness’ in all its weightlessness, emotional deficit and hollowness of representation. The fact that it’s completely unapologetic about it is what ...