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Copyright: © Ceal Floyer, courtesy Lisson Gallery, London | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Curator: Immediately, I see a stage bathed in anticipation, even tension. It’s a potent visual metaphor. Editor: This is "Double Act" by Ceal Floyer. The installation plays with the idea of representation using a simple light projector. Curator: The projected image of curtains suggests a performance, an unveiling—what's being hidden? Editor: It's a dance of light and shadow, a spotlight illuminating the mechanics behind the illusion, revealing the means of production. Curator: Precisely, the symbolism is layered: expectation, revelation, and the very act of seeing. Editor: Yet it all comes down to this crude object hanging from the ceiling, and the electricity powering it. Curator: A minimalist gesture, rich with meaning. Editor: Indeed, it underscores the labor inherent in every spectacle. Curator: Floyer reminds us that even absence is a form of presence. Editor: Yes, and that the magic of theater depends on raw materials.
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The British artist Ceal Floyer’s work Double Act 2006 comprises a colour slide, a gobo (light stencil) and a theatre light. It is arranged as an installation in a darkened room, where the theatre light with attached gobo and slide are mounted on a wall at a right angle to an adjoining wall upon which the light projection is seen. A gobo is a translucent filter that shapes a light source in the manner of a stencil, and here the gobo and light project a slide of a red theatre curtain and a white spotlight onto a space that is approximately 14 x 8 x 4 m in size. The work’s illusionism is augmented by the way in which the circle of light spills onto the floor and by the ambient reflections and shadows it casts, engendering a sense of physical immersion and visual tactility.
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