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. For the Liverpool Biennial Floyer will exhibit her work entitled Wall-Floor Projection in The Tate Gallery.

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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. For the Liverpool Biennial Floyer will exhibit her work entitled Wall-Floor Projection in The Tate Gallery.