Ed Atkins

Untitled, 2011

29.5 x 20.5 cm

Indian Ink on paper

Unique, signed and dated

One of the most recognised artists of his generation, Ed Atkins works with video and text, subverting the conventions of the moving image and literature. An important strand that also informs his drawings is a longstanding fascination with corporeality, which oscillates between presence and absence and finds expression as a performance of loss and monstrosity. The figures in these drawings, the severed head and the severed hand, are recurring forms in Atkins' visual vocabulary, at once abject, dark and with an almost cartoonish sense of surreality. Ed Atkins (born 1982, Oxford) has had solo exhibitions at the following institutions, among others: Kunsthaus Bregenz, K21-Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf (2019); MMK Frankfurt; Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (2017); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2015) and The Serpentine Gallery, London (2014). He lives and works in London.