Ed Atkins: Happy Birthday !!!, 01 Jun 2018 — 19 Aug 2018
Exhibitions
Ed Atkins: Happy Birthday !!!
11 Avenue du Président Wilson, 75116
Curated by Anne Dressen, The Musée d’Art moderne presents an installation by Ed Atkins, which will be part of the museum’s permanent collections.
“Happy Birthday!!!” is a computer-generated animation in black and white. More disturbing than its title suggests, it accords a central role to death. One also detects furtive allusions to Bruce Nauman’s “Self-Portrait as a Fountain” (1996), “Alice in Wonderland” and a drawing by writer Pierre Klossowski for his book “L’Adolescent immortel” (1994).