Warning Birds, 2002
Self-adhesive stickers on window
Works by Ceal Floyer play with the process of construction of meanings and associations. The artist often uses everyday or ready-made objects to explore the dialectical tension between the literal or the mundane and an imaginative meaning.
Rock Paper Scissors, 2013 (at the far end)
C-prints on aluminium Dibond
The names of the objects refer to the popular game in which two players repeat the title's phrase to count down to the moment when both will imitate the objects. The work may also playfully refer to One and Three Chairs (1965), a founding piece of Conceptual Art by the famously serious-minded Joseph Kosuth.
Photo © Amelie Proché