Unrequited Line Ceal Floyer
September 29, 2020—May 1, 2021
Y8 Kunstraum, Hamburg

Unrequited Line Ceal Floyer

Ceal Floyer Diptych (Klettband), 2020 Black hook-and-loop fastener tape Site-specific dimensions (first iteration: 2 x 300 cm each side) Exhibition View: Ceal Floyer, Unrequited Line, Y8 Kunstraum, Hamburg, 2020 Photo © Klaus Frahm

Press Release

Ceal Floyer’s light intensive and transparent works show 'qualities that integrate purity and silence, elements that define a point of origin which Rosalind Krauss has called the perfect modernist gesture, the creation of a tabula rasa, a new foundation' (I. Blazwick, Kunsthalle Bern). But Floyer’s work is not about modernist purity or the autonomy of sensory experience. Its performative gestures address simple, quotidian things that have always existed in our world. Through omissions and visual...
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