RYAN GANDER
Born in 1976, Chester (UK). Lives and works in London.
Blue Wall. The Institution of Fly, 2003
Coleccion Bruno Van Lierde. Courtesy of the Annet Gelink gallery, Amsterdam
In search of the perfect palindrome (third attempt): Crossword featuring a newly invented word ‘Mitim’ – rendering it unsolvable – placed in a National Newspaper, 2005
Courtesy of the Store gallery
Stumbling block: Milestone produced from concrete fallen from Unite d’habitation, Marseille (Le Corbusier 1947-1952) placed outside a London Borough of Hackney social housing block, Hoxton, London, 2006.
Photograph by Polly Braden (35 x 30cm)
Courtesy of the Store gallery, London
What are the ties between the photographs of a milestone close to some London buildings, realised by the artist with cement recovered from a living unit in Le Corbusier; a pile of newspapers where a crossword appears in which an invented word has been inserted, rendering it unsolvable, and a wall of posters that to seem to have been extracted and displaced to the exhibition space? All these elements are bound by a principle of association of ideas that Ryan Gander calls ‘loose associations’ and contribute a work that, according to the artist, convert into a “time travel machine”, manoeuvring the spectator between cultural, historical and aesthetic symbols, indicators for an investigation the solution of which is continuously postponed. Gander uses codes and mediums taken out of different forms of communication (posters, newspapers), and plays with the truth and the lie present, the small disturbances in reality, indefinitely postponing the possibility of deciphering and understanding.
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