Pianowork 2
Lumiar Cité•Jun 20, 2026 — Sep 27, 2026
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Lumiar Cité presents Pianowork 2 by British artist Ed Atkins — his first exhibition in Portugal. For the show, Atkins devised a large, extruded, hollow sculptural screen in black MDF that fills the upper gallery; the eponymous video is projected on its outer surface, while inside's a void.
For over a decade, Atkins has worked with computer-generated moving image, writing, and the staging of speech and gesture — examining the uncertain border between presence and likeness, sincerity and artifice, the body and its digital representation. His digital surrogates, at once intimate and uncanny, function less as illusions than as devices through which questions of feeling, interiority, and agency are tested against technologies that promise the wrong fidelity.
Pianowork 2 (2023) is a sixteen-minute animation in which a digital double of the artist performs Klavierstück 2 (2001), a minimalist piano composition by the Swiss composer Jürg Frey. To make it, Atkins played in a motion-capture suit…
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Pianowork 2
Lumiar Cité•Jun 20, 2026 — Sep 27, 2026
Press Release
Lumiar Cité presents Pianowork 2 by British artist Ed Atkins — his first exhibition in Portugal. For the show, Atkins devised a large, extruded, hollow sculptural screen in black MDF that fills the upper gallery; the eponymous video is projected on its outer surface, while inside's a void.
For over a decade, Atkins has worked with computer-generated moving image, writing, and the staging of speech and gesture — examining the uncertain border between presence and likeness, sincerity and artifice, the body and its digital representation. His digital surrogates, at once intimate and uncanny, function less as illusions than as devices through which questions of feeling, interiority, and agency are tested against technologies that promise the wrong fidelity.
Pianowork 2 (2023) is a sixteen-minute animation in which a digital double of the artist performs Klavierstück 2 (2001), a minimalist piano composition by the Swiss composer Jürg Frey. To make it, Atkins played in a motion-capture suit…
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