Emily Floyd against herself

Emily Floyd is attracted to texts that focus on identity and place and that offer new ways of thinking about these issues in the light of globalisation and post-colonialism. She is interested in the malleability of language and its connection to knowledge and power. The process Floyd employs to produce her numerous large-scale wooden letters mirrors the anxiety and obsessions with the various novels they are referencing – Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment', Kafka's 'The Trial' and Camus' 'The Outsider'. Sarah Tutton looks at Floyd's practice, calling particular attention to her recent installation works 'it's because I talk too much that I do nothing', Gen-existential Crisis' and 'Compulsory for young intellectuals'.