“It’s a face I know and don’t know.”
– Critic
Jason Farago, on
Ed Atkins’ CGI visage in
The Worm (2021). Profiling the British artist for his
New Museum show, he teases out the themes of melancholy and mortality that run through Atkins’ work. His 3D avatars ”have no names, no back-stories, no motivations,” he writes.