Marcus Coates: The Directors

Art Monthly – No. 461

‘Marcus Coates: The Directors’

November 2022

Maria Walsh

Coates’s approximations palpably convey the incapacitating exhaustion of living with psychotic illnesses. This cannot but generate compassion, but the films are also genuinely upsetting because they question the fine line between control and loss of control in relation to what is commonly agreed upon as shared reality.