Elvia Wilk
Elvia Wilk is a writer and editor living in New York. She is the author of the novel Oval (Soft Skull, 2019) and writes for publications including frieze, Artforum, e-flux, Metropolis, Mousse, Flash Art, Art in America and Zeit Online. She is a contributing editor of e-flux journal and a 2020 fellow in the Transformations of the Human program at the Berggruen Institute.
Elvia Wilk on Granta.com
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
This Compost: Erotics of Rot
Elvia Wilk
‘Mushrooms sprout from the bathtub grout; disintegrating apples overflow from the trash can. Insects circle. The decomposition is lively and sensorially overwhelming.’
Fiction | The Online Edition
Oval
Elvia Wilk
‘We’re trying to prove that it’s possible to live sustainably and not be such a freak about it.’
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Best Book of 1480: MS Egerton 1821
Elvia Wilk
‘The original owners of many devotional books kissed, licked, rubbed, scratched at, and cried upon their pages.’ Elvia Wilk on the best book of 1480.
In Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation
Elvia Wilk & Leah Dieterich
‘Dystopia is always already here, and so is utopia. What does it mean to accept that we're already living in both?’