| Dates: | born 1968
| | Biography: | 1968 Born in Karachi, Pakistan.
Lives and works in London
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION
1998 Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
1997 Galleria Primo Piano, Rome Lisson
Gallery, London
1996 Galleria Primo Piano, Rome (part
of Artisti Britannici a Roma, The British
Council) Tramway Project Room,
Glasgow
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1998 Real Life: New British Art 1998-
1999, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of
Fine Arts (and toured Japan)
Everyday: 11th Biennale of Sydney,
Sydney
Genius Loci, Kunsthalle, Bern
Martin Creed, Ceal Floyer, John
Frankland,
Delfina Studios, London
Dimensions Variable, British Council
touring exhibition
1997 Urban Legends, London, Staatliche
Kunsthalle Baden, Baden
Material Culture: the object in British art
in the 80's and 90's, Hayward Gallery,
London
1995 British Art Show 4, Manchester;
Edinburgh; Cardiff
FURTHER READING
"Artist pages," Hyperfoto 3-4: 104-5
Ceal Floyer, Kunstlerhaus
Bethanien/Philip
Morris Kunstfoerderung, Berlin 1998
Dimensions Variable (exh. cat.), British
Council, London 1998
Life/Live, Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris;
Centro de Cultural de Belem, Lisbon
1996-97
Projects (exh. cat.), Irish Museum of
Modern Art, Dublin 1997
Real Life: New British Art 1998-1999
(exh.
cat.), Tochigi Prefectual Museum of Fine
Arts, Japan 1996
Visions of Art in a Paradoxical World: 4th
International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
1995
| | | Source: | "Trace, 1st Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art", Festival catalogue | | | Date of source: | 1999 |
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| | Description: | Ceal Floyer's understated installations
are visual one-liners; her tools so
minimal that they are almost invisible.
Floyer often focuses on a single
element, injecting into it a strange
familiarity. By making simple
interventions into the gallery space she
disrupts the visual clarity of the
architecture. She has also used
projected images and other illusionary
elements to explore the strangeness of
our everyday world. By simple
transformations she turns the ordinary
into the extraordinary.
Next to the lift in one gallery there were
two fire doors. Under one of these doors
a brilliant strip of light
seemed to be flooding in from an
unusually bright exterior. There was just
a hint of strange encounters about this
luminosity - until one discovered that the
light was in fact coming from a projector
placed on the floor opposite the lift. The
means are revealed, but the sensation
continues to engage us. In another
installation the text on a light bulb was
made visible by the addition of a lens,
transforming the light bulb into a
projector that projected itself. Floyer has
installed her work Wall-Floor Projection
for TRACE.
| | Description Source: | "Trace, 1st Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art", Festival catalogue | | Description Source Date: | 1999 | | Type: | person |
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