Ryan Gander I be... (Ixviii), 2024
Antique mirror, cold cast marble
113 x 80 x 23 cm
The gilded frame of I be... (Ixviii) appears to be partially covered with a white sheet, its ostensibly fluid folds held across one side of the large mirror. In fact, the folds consist of marble resin, thus permanently veiling the mirrored surface, impeding the spectators’ curiosity and desire to see their reflections.
Ryan Gander's oeuvre evokes para-historical, fictional spaces, institutions and figures. His works often combine fictional presence and absences, creating objects that refer to events, other absent objects, art works or persons, both real and imaginary. The voids or absences, evoked by the suggestion of hidden or missing items that are named, delineated or circumscribed by traces, act as witty, sometimes lyrical invocations of the power of the imagination.
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