Us Dead Talk Love

2012
Ed Atkins

Two-channel HD video, colour, sound
34 min. 24 s

Their words, sometimes lyrical, sometimes sarcastic, are guided by repeated abstract questions on emotions and memory. The complex narrative structure evokes the spirituality of desire as well as its triviality, the significance of sex and its possible sublimation.

© Ed Atkins. Photo © Fondation Louis Vuitton / Marc Domage © Ed Atkins. Photo © Fondation Louis Vuitton / Marc Domage © Ed Atkins. Photo © Fondation Louis Vuitton / Marc Domage

Hangs

Expressionist and contemplative works

From 17 December 2014 to 18 May 2015

Ed Atkins’ interest in high-definition image technologies and immersive sound is based on their paradoxical capacity to produce images the artist describes as “both ridiculously alive and yet completely dead”.

His spoken word performances, which feature a new hybrid humanity, are driven by a desire to destabilise the viewer. Influenced by literature, his scripts inform the soundtrack and structure of his videos. A tragic experience, artistic challenge and essential philosophical subject, death is at the heart of his work as an allegory of digital imagery devoid of substance.

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