Vacancy (2007) – neon sign, 44 x 13 x 20cm.
The sign used in ‘Vacancy’, is a bought, off the shelf item, and as a result is very recognisable. Placed in a gallery context I would like to think that it proposes a redundancy of the space it inhabits; it behaves as something that is taking the place of something else supposedly more valued, or more creditable. By doing so, it calls into question that which it might be replaced by.
