Press Release
The artist placed a large number of identical signs which bear the text Vorsicht Stufe (Mind the step) on a staircase, one on each of the 56 treads connecting the ground level with the 1st floor of the Humboldt University building in Berlin. In Ceal Floyer’s installation, the concealed potential lies not in the individual warning, familiar from everyday life, but in the perception of the situation created through the phrase’s repetition. Viewed from the...
