ED ATKINS

Conceived by Atkins as an artists book, the main body is a collage of imagery, text, and graphical elements. Ed Atkins makes videos , draws, and writes, reflexively performing the ways in which contemporary modes of representation attempt to do justice to powerful ly emotional experience. Atkins work is at once a disturbing diagnosis of a digitally mediated present day and an absurd prophecy o f things to come. It is skeptical of the promises of technology yet suggests that it is possible to salvage subjectivity, suspending a hysteri...[Read more]