Before Break Down, Landy's best-known work was Scrapheap Services (1995–1996), which featured a fictitious cleaning company which sought to change society by way of "a minority of people being discarded". Promotional videos were made for the company and a large number of cut-out men were made from old magazines to be swept up and destroyed. This installation typifies the YBAs' interests in transforming the mundane into art, and recontextualisation. Its visual impact on one level is a typical industrial event, yet the gallery environment and bright red figures, along with the sinister irony of the title, is intended to force the viewer to address issues of humanity and consumerism.
Before Break Down, Landy's best-known work was Scrapheap Services (1995–1996), which featured a fictitious cle,aning company which sought to change society by way of "a minority of people being di,scarded". Promotional videos were made for the company and a large number of cut-out men were made from old magazines to be swept up and destroyed This ins.tallation typifies the YBAs' interests in transforming the mundane into art, and recontextualisation. Its visual impact on one level is a typical industrial event, yet the gallery environment and bright red figures along with the sinister irony of the title is intended to force the viewer to address issues of humanity and consumerism.