Cécile B. Evans

Working in video, sculpture, performance, and installation, Cécile B. Evans examines the capacity of digital technology to hold and evoke human emotion. A prominent voice of the Post-Internet art movement, Evans established themself in the Berlin art scene of the late aughts by developing works animated by avatars, bots, and cyber simulations. Early recognition came in 2012, when they received the Emdash Award for an audio guide featuring a 3D holographic projection. Evans’s multi-channel video installation What the Heart Wants (2016) was exhibited at the 2016 Berlin Biennale; the film synthesizes the artist’s interest in human/machine interaction, automation, and gender and body politics. Evans’s meditations on the human condition in the digital era are in the collections of museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen.