Ladder (minus 2-8)

Ceal Floyer’s works, which reshape everyday objects and detach them from their ordinary contexts, explore the absurdity and confusion caused by the gaps and transitivity between function and meaning, as well as reality and fiction. The artist selects common materials from everyday life and places them in an artistic context that plays with the viewer’s perception. Floyer’s "Ladder (minus 2-8)" is a standard aluminium ladder with all its rungs except the first and ninth ones removed. The modified, defunct ladder appears to suggest the idea of a journey with only a beginning or an end. Leaning against the wall, waiting upon never to be used, this ladder no longer performs its usual functions, yet it is also nothing else other than a ladder. With this playful modification, Floyer breaks the semantic connections of the object, leaving language and representation, in a constant state of ambiguity.