"after a long battle with illness"
"Her works are brilliantly inventive and, just like her, full of razor-sharp intelligence, dry wit, and visual acuity [...]"
"She achieved, in her practice, a paradoxical condition of feather-light gravitas. Exuding a quiet but forceful presence, her distinct artistic voice was both playful and profound."
Ceal Floyer made subtly humorous, conceptual films and installations that used everyday objects to investigate scale, language and meaning. Signature works include Light Switch (1992–99), a projector casting an image of a light switch, and Nail Biting Performance (2001), in which she bit her nails into a microphone. Born in Pakistan in 1968, she grew up in England and later settled in Berlin. She studied at Goldsmiths College, London, taught in the sculpture department at HFBK Hamburg from 2014 to 2017, received major prizes including the Preis der Nationalgalerie (2007) and the Nam June Paik Art Center Prize (2009), and exhibited internationally.
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