Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Patricia L. Boyd: Ceiling Analysis at Secession Vienna, 18 November, 2022–15 February, 2023.
Borrowing its format from fabric sample books, Ceiling Blues contains photographed fragments of frottages, silkscreen prints, and casts—tests, made in preparation for her exhibition, reproduced in 1:1 scale. “The samples here are not single samples of what can exist in quantity, as with samples from a roll of fabric that has a pattern that repeats. They are single samples from what is singular. They are excerpts of draft versions of a potential work that remains unfound.”—Patricia L. Boyd