Down Over Up - Martin Creed

In the video above Martin Creed explains his thoughts on his work displayed in his 2010 show Down Over up held during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The work is primarily composed of whole and easily acessable  objects, chairs, tables, wood, cacti. The Fruitmarket gallery describes in their guide the exhibition as one about progression. However in the video Creed eludes to the idea of order. Simplifying and controlling his reality with perfectly proportioned objects. Wood, grown wild is tamed and stacked into perfect piles with specific dimensions, the same idea applies for the cacti, a plant who does not obey the rules human ashetics is modified to make it pleasing to our eye.. The chairs and tables stacked high expose the idea of order in our homes,where we are sold the idea of cleanliness and order however this presents a juxtaposition as stacked furniture while ordered, in its usual context, the home is out of place and unnatural.
Each work has a separate witticism you could read into it as well as a deeper story to reveal to us about our own natures. For example, a chair needing a seat... a witty bon mot the entire message of the piece? Or one of many layered meanings one could read The cacti are presented similarly, is order and control is pleasing to the eye?

Work No. 960 Photo by Murdo Macleod

Work No. 928 Photo Galleria Lorcan O'Neil

Work No. 988 Photo Murdo MacLeod

Work No.  997 Photo Barbora Gerny

. Other than the desire to use prefabricated pieces in my works I would also like to mirror the idea of The multitude of independent meanings you could take from a piece. I've treated one piece as if it were many. each component a stand alone piece as well as playing its part in the larger narrative of my work.