Martin Creed
Feelings was made specially for Creed’s exhibition Works, presented at the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art in 2004. The installation consists of a white neon sign that forms the word “Feelings.” The work is an ironic, tautological reference to reality and, through its form, straddles the boundary between pop art and conceptual art.
Martin Creed is a British visual artist, musician, and performer born in 1968. He studied at the Lenzie Academy and the Slade School of Art at University College London. He gained recognition as an author of minimalist installations replete with irony and humour, often incorporating everyday objects. In 2001, Creed was awarded the Turner Prize for Work No. 227: The Lights Going On and Off. Internationally acclaimed for his playful, thought-provoking, and deeply ambiguous approach, Creed is an artist, musician, composer, and performer who draws on the everyday in his multidisciplinary practice, transforming ordinary materials and actions into surprising meditations on existence, choice, and perception. A highly innovative artist, Creed’s work constantly subverts our expectations and is characterised by gentle yet subversive wit, humour, and minimalism rooted in instinctive anti-materialism.
