Gavin Brown's Enterprise inaugurates the gallery’s new space on West 127th Street in Harlem with Ed Atkins – the artist's first exhibition with the gallery. Following his recent residency at The Kitchen, where he unveiled “Performance Capture,” this exhibition spans three levels of the GBE Harlem gallery, each floor showing a digital work by the artist that includes sound, video and writing. The first two floors feature older work (respectively: Ribbons, 2014 and Hisser, 2015) and the third floor culminates in Atkins' newest work Safe Conduct, 2016. Safe Conduct is shown in a triptych of video walls, and grapples with the uncertainty that belies the subject of security. Music by Ravel Bolero complements and acts as a foil. Ed Atkins has been called “one of the great artists of our time” by the Swiss curator Hans Ulrich Obrist.
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