Ways to hang work

While we were in the exhibition space I was looking at the way the window display was hung. In one of the units the artist had suspended their work by getting a piece of fishwire and punching 2 wholes in the top of their work to loop the wire through. These were then attached to the ceiling by a hook. I didn't like this technique, because although at was virtually invisible from a distance, once you got close enough it looked pretty amateur. As you can see in the picture there was still a length of wire that wasn't cut off, and the work now permanently has small holes in it.

I preferred the way of hanging shown below. The artist had made the fixings more of a feature, rather than trying to make it invisible and failing like above. They had clamped small bulldog clips attached to fishing wire to their pieces and suspended them from the ceiling again. Unfortunately we could not go inside this Unit so I could not see how they were attached to the ceiling, but I would imagine it would be a similar technique again. I think the reason this way of hanging works better than the one above is because it makes a feature out of the clips, they are stylised and fit well with the work. The wire in the pieces above seems like it wasn't considered for a vast amount of time, the wire is just tied to keep it in place, the work has been defaced to hang it, and they seem to have failed in their attempt to make the fixings invisible. Weirdly the bulldog clips seem less noticeable than the fishing wire as they work with the photographs presented.