Zoia Atkinson (RO/UK/CH) is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Amsterdam. Through performance, sound, installation and video, she creates cinematic fragments that subtly distort and shift the familiar. He approaches “straying” as a method and productive condition: to resist normative coherence, fixed identity and linear modes of understanding by myth making and deviating perceptions.

Central to the work is Devlin, an adjacent version of Zoia performed across different situations. Neither fictional persona nor stable character, Devlin functions as an operative figure through which narration and relation can be embodied. Drawing from queer temporality and anti-extractive forms of spectatorship, the work privileges mutation, discomfort and uncertainty over resolution or fixed meaning.

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Documentation from (Interlude), Zoia's graduation work from Sandberg Instituut, taken by @yolane.r

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