Roman Signer @ The Fruitmarket

Live in your head' reads the cover of one of Roman Signer's old exhibition catalogues. Signer has followed this advice throughout his long and successful career and now, thanks to his show at the Fruitmarket gallery, he can invite us to do the same. The works take the forms of installation, sculpture and film. Although all present in the gallery, they have differing relationships to time. Films document action taking place in the past, sculptures suggest that an action has happened and yet the installations are alive with the movement and sounds of actions taking place before us.

What unites Signer's work is an interest in ordinary objects and their subsequent subversion or loss of function. 'Kayak', of 1987, presents a kayak in three pieces having been carefully ripped apart by explosives. With its delicately frayed edges, the craft is before us as a new object; robbed of its utility it is entirely vulnerable yet still of worth to the viewer.

Upstairs is a hive of activity, with wind powering a number of installations. These are joined by object-based sculptures, familiar yet altered. Surveying the room the viewer can imagine that Signer has crept into their home and rearranged their possessions. A chocolate Easter bunny has been shot, an umbrella has pierced a briefcase and a pair of skis are wearing armbands. Signer brings surreal scenarios from his imagination to the gallery space with thought-provoking, entertaining results. [Gabriella Griffith]