MOCA is delighted to be presenting a sound work by renowned conceptual artist, Ceal Floyer, as part of the museums ongoing South Stairwell Sound Series. In addition to sound, her art incorporates installation, sculpture, photography, drawing, and moving image. Working since the 1990s, she is known for discreet works that alter our perception of space and routine behaviours. Her rearrangement and subtle reduction of everyday materials achieves profound psychological and emotional effects.
’Til I Get It Right is a sound installation based on American country music singer Tammy Wynette’s love song of the same name. Floyer focuses on a clip of the 1972 hit with the lyrics: “So I’ll just keep on falling in love ’til I get it right.” Toying with the music file, Floyer has seamlessly removed “falling in love,” which allows the remaining words to take on personal meanings with each new encounter. At the same time, Floyer’s edit emphasizes the singer’s breath, timing, and intonation.
Installed within MOCA’s stairwell and set to repeat, Floyer’s rephrasing offers a meditation on hope, despair, and persistence.
About the Artist
Her work has been the subject of several solo exhibitions at institutions such as the Base Progetti per l‘Arte, Florence, Italy (2022-23), Kunstraum, Hamburg, Germany (2020), the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, USA (2019), Aspen Art Museum, USA and Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland (both 2016), Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany (2015), Kolnischer Kunstverein, Germany (2013), DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal (2011), Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, USA (2010), Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin,(both 2009), and Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina (MADRE), Naples, Italy (2008).
Her work has been included group shows at the Art and Museum Centre Sinkka, Kerava (2023), Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland (2023), 4th International Istanbul Triennial: Borders and Walls at Heterotopic Spaces, Yedikule Dungeons Museum, Istanbul (2022); Monash University Museum of Art, Caulfield East, Australia (2021), South London Gallery, London, UK and the Hammer Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA (both 2018), at the Broad Art Museum, Lansing, USA (2017) and at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin and the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg (Germany, both 2017). She participated in Aichi Triennale, Nagoya City and Toyota City, Aichi, Japan (2019), and Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong, China (2012).
