ATKINS, Ed; LADD, Nathan (ed.); STAPLE, Polly (ed.)
Ed Atkins [Tate Britain]

For over a decade, Ed Atkins has been making videos and animations that trace the dwindling gap between representation and embodied experience. Using his desires, experiences and body as a model, Atkins' works misuse contemporary technologies of representation to critically reflect what they have done to images and our sense of self.

This book and the related career-spanning exhibition at Tate assemble paintings, writing, embroideries and drawings alongside Atkins' moving-image works in a succession of large-scale installations.

Troubled by melancholy, undermined by bathos and tempered with humour, Atkins' works pit a weightless digital life against a corporal world of heft, craft, and touch. Overwhelmingly, Atkins' works allegorise loss, intimacy, and love. [publisher's note]

With texts by Hal Foster, Ben Lerner, Kathryn Scanlan, Jamie Stevens.

Published by Tate, 2025
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