Ryan Gander

Travelogue lecture with missing content 2001 Paris

This work is meditative and fragile. These abstract forms are projected slides belonging to another lecture, Travelogue, where the images have been removed. What is left is the hole of the frame of the slide that light draws upon and...

You see with no lights 2004 Paris

You see without light is a group of photographs around the theme of Bauhaus. This includes a reference to one of Gander's works which is the Bauhaus manifesto without dots on the letter 'i', as well as drawings of his ideal art school....

A vehicle with no Lights 2004 Paris

A vehicle without light is a group of more personal photographs. This includes an image of a pirate radio in the 1960s, a story from the BBC website and the photo of Mary Aurore. Mary Aurore, is in fact a character he invented whose...

Things that means things and things that look like they mean things 2008 Paris

The work consists of a work inside a work. The spectator is presented with a commissioned documentary on a flat-screen Tv on the subject of the production of the making of an artwork that doesn’t exist entitled The magic and the meaning...

Epiphany...learnt through hardship 2012 Paris

A bronze figurine of a young female ballerina resembling Degas' model kneeling on the floor in the same pose as the model in Edward Weston's photograph "Nude", 1936. 
In the same space as the figure is an ultramarine blue cube...

Ryan Gander is a collector. He keeps all sorts of documents to create from. His studio is full of found images, personal images, documents copied from internet or cutout of newspapers. In this series of 20 photographs, each image is constituted through a game of associations. Each photograph has a caption that details each element so the spectator can play. In a number of his works, lectures or texts, Ryan Gander is very attached to details, to anecdotes. He relays some of the information with great concern for exactitude which can seem futile and absurd but creates the poetic shift. He seeks to highlight invisible details of daily reality. All his works are in dialogue with one another. Each title also builds on the associations and complementaries between the works.
Ryan Gander was born in Chester, UK, in 1976. He lives and works in London.